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Coubertin also took inspiration from earlier Greek games organised under the name of Olympics by businessman and philanthropist Evangelis Zappas in 1859, 1870 and 1875. The 1896 Athens Games were funded by the legacies of Zappas and his cousin Konstantinos Zappas and by George Averoff who had been requested by the Greek government to sponsor the second refurbishment of

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