Last Time Olympics Were Held In Greece. The ancient olympic games were a sporting event held every four years at the sacred site of olympia, in the western peloponnese, in honour of zeus, the supreme. Intended to reinvigorate interest in the olympic games after the 1900 and 1904 games yielded little fanfare, the athens games of 1906 were the first and only.

The first modern olympics were held in athens, greece, in 1896. Intended to reinvigorate interest in the olympic games after the 1900 and 1904 games yielded little fanfare, the athens games of 1906 were the first and only.