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A stadium with a red running track around a green field, with the hilltop buildings of ancient Athens rising beyond it and the words “Spirit of Olympics Athens–Atlanta” in Hindi and English, on a ₹5 stamp.
The Marble Stadium
India Post issued two ₹5 stamps on 25 May 1996 for the centenary of the modern Olympic Games, held that year at Atlanta. This one looks back to Athens and the Panathenaic Stadium, the marble stadium that hosted the first modern Games in 1896, on the site of a stadium of ancient Greece. The revival of the Games was the work of Pierre de Coubertin, and 13 countries took part in them. Its companion stamp shows the Olympic torch. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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