Talk:William Brookes School

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Built 'on the famous site of the original modern Olympic Games'

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I agree with the citation need that has been raised about the site the school was built on. I am not local but I had long thought the Linden Field venue had always been where the Wenlock Olympian Games were held and the phrase is confusing as the first 'modern' Olympic Games are considered those held at Athens in 1896 that Coubertin succeeded in initiating.Cloptonson (talk) 07:04, 13 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

A check of the book Born out of Wenlock, William Penny Brookes and the British origins of the modern Olympics by Catherine Beale only says of the school that it overlooks the Linden Field venue, no reference to it being built on the site, which in 1935 was permanently gifted to the town as a royal Jubilee year gesture. For a school to be built on the original site of the Wenlock Olympian Games would imply the games had moved venue after its original staging in 1850.Cloptonson (talk) 07:24, 13 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

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