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Mini-Stories : Volume 12

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The Olympic Poem

The modern games as we know them to day were only launched just over a century ago. Crocusted us here with some lesser known modern olympic history from when the games were still being shaped into the international event we know to day. And to get things started, roman, i'm going to have you read the first stanza of a poem. It's titled ode to sport and it was written in 19 12, 16 years after the first modern o Olympic games.

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