A Conversation for The Olympic Games
William Penny Brookes - Father of the modern Olympics
LL Waz Started conversation Aug 18, 2004
Well the BBC says so too 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/features/2004/08/william_penny_brookes.shtml
"Brookes ... invited the Frenchman, then 27-years-old, to come to the Much Wenlock Olympian Society's games held every year in his town, situated about 20 miles west of Wolverhampton.
Coubertain was impressed with what he saw and sat up with Brookes long into the night discussing how the Wenlock games might be translated on to a bigger stage."
Much Wenlock still hold their mini-olympics.
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