Intercalated Games

The Intercalated Olympic Games were to be a series of International Olympic Games half-way between what we now call Games of the olympiad. The series of Intercalated Games was to always be held in Athens.

Destiny

The Greek were unable to keep the schedule for 1910. On the one hand the problems on the Balkan made things difficult, but on the other, the modern Greeks found out the Ancient Greeks were right: A two year interval was too short. Where to most there had been a gap of six years before Athens 1906, a gap of two years years after London 1908 did not leave people enough time to prepare.

Related Topics:
1910 - Balkan

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With Athens 1910 a failure, the faith in Athens diminshed, and as a result Athens 1914 got even less support. And then World War one started, and any further Intercalated Games had to wait until after the war. But after the war was over it had been more than a decade since Athens 1906, and the idea of Intercalated Games was given up entirely.

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