The Olympic Games, a long lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens, some 1,400 years after being banned(禁止)by Roman emperor Theodosius. France's Baron Pierre de Coubertin is the master architect of the 7 day pageant(盛会), involving 13 nations, 285 men and as yet, no women. Anyone for a standing highjump? Ten sports were represented through 42 events, Americans Edwin Flack and Thomas Burt each garnered 2 medals. But it is a Greek, Spyridon Louis, who fitting wins the marathon, an event dating back to 776 B.C. and now renewed in the first modern day Olympiad, April 6, 1896.