Essays on the Olympic and Paralympic Movement's own institutional history, covering the modern Olympic Games' revival, its Cold War-era political history, the Paralympic Movement's founding and its long road to parity with the Olympics, and the Asian Games' own founding decades under and before its continental federation. Belongs here: any article about the Olympic or Paralympic Movement's own governance, politics or founding. Does not belong here: a single sport's own world championship or federation history, grouped under Mind Sport Federation Founding and Title Lineage or Modern Competition Founding, Format and Growth.
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1. Wikipedia: Olympic Games
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The first Games held under the auspices of the IOC were hosted in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens in 1896.
2. Wikipedia: Paralympic Games
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The first official Paralympic Games, coincident with the ninth Stoke Mandeville Games but no longer open solely to war veterans, was held in Rome in 1960.
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It covers the Movement's own governance, politics and founding, not a single sport's own championship or federation history.
Olympic and Paralympic Movement History covers essays on the Olympic and Paralympic Movement's own institutional history, covering the modern Olympic Games' revival, its Cold War-era political history, the Paralympic Movement's founding and the Asian Games' own founding decades. An article about the Olympic or Paralympic Movement's own governance, politics or founding belongs here, rather than a single sport's own world championship or federation history.