Finally, after all the hooha, uproar and commotion, the "biggest show on earth has officially" started in Rio this weekend. The four-yearly modern Olympic Games, of course is the leading sporting event featuring the summer games where tens of thousands of athletes from more than 200 nations participates in a variety of competitions.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, inspired by the games held by the ancient Greeks in Olympia in the 8th century probably did not foresee how the movement shaped to be more than one century later.
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