Product Description The inspiring story of a colorful zusammengew? Rfelte team of amateur American athletes, who revives the world of sports to life in this dramatization of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 stunned. Veteran Actor Louis Jourdan stars as Baron Pierre du Coubertin, a relentless vision? R, which aims to renew the ancient Olympia after 1500 years. Dr. William Sloane (David Ogden Stiers), the Princeton professor, pulls together the first American team with 13 unlikely boys and a meager supply of Sportger? Th. Competing in events that had never seen in the United States before the Americans went to Athens and secured the winning post, despite almost un? Overcome difficulties. Amazon. comThis TV mini-series ore? the history of the LDS Gr?’S REASONS of the modern Olympic Games change by focusing on individuals in several L? and their preparations and sp? Teren competition in Athens in 1896. David Ogden Stiers (a familiar face f? R the viewers of M * A * S * H repeats) portr? Antees Princeton classics professor whose knowledge of the ancient Olympic Games means that he f the task of recruiting an American team? R the 1896 Games, where. The stories of how some athletes m? Need to be convinced?, The team seems gek? Nstelt will join, but they amplified? Strengths the idea of how fragile the concept of reviving the Olympic Games was at the time. A young David Caruso (years before his posturing w? Rde by the station house of the NYPD Blue) portr? Antees big lanes Boston Irishman who goes away from a Harvard scholarship to participate in track events. And if Caruso is guided? To do annually near veer L? Stringent James Cagney impression, it serves as a stable focal point of the American team. Once in Athens, the focus very much on American athletes and their? Berraschenden success, and there are some interesting and humorous famous leads into the action. For example, the young American team had recruited a? Locational blacksmith make an iron discus, making them an unexpected advantage when presented with the much easier “official” debate in Athens. hold even if the various acts and subplots? about the athletes do not always want to do very well, the scenes of the competition in Athens, an entertaining re-creation of the first modern Olympic Games. – Robert J. McNamara

The First Olympics: Athens 1896