An Earlier Olympic Revival?

hey, all. came up with an idea recently. basically, i was wondering what an earlier successful revival of the Olympic Games might be like and what its consequences could be.

what i've devised thus far is basically just giving a rather arbitrary date to the revival: 2500 years after the first Olympics (i used Wikipedia to find this out, so it might be wrong) and, after punching it into my calculator, pegged it at 1724. however, this revival is hardly Olympic: it's limited entirely to Europe, excludes anything in the Ottoman Empire (including Greece!), and isn't even called the Olympics at this time--a name i've started batting around is maybe "Julian Games" with the actual participants being limited to the former Roman Empire. these games take place every six years (instead of four years) until 1784, making eleven events in all. there's a planned event for 1790, but its cancelled due to the outbreak of the French Revolution and discontinued.

the games are picked up again in 1838, after the Greek War of Independence (though i need to reexamine my notes to see if this is relevant for my ASB ATL, since i think i decided previous butterflies lead to earlier Greek independence) and these ones actually ARE called the Olympics and are much closer to the OTL games. it includes every internationally recognized country (though the US probably abstains for the first few Olympics). starting in 1924, like IOTL, a Winter Olympics is added in the same criteria as IOTL


so, what does everyone think about what i have so far? comments? constructive criticism?
 
1724 would presumably be early enough that the idea that only amateurs (read: independently wealthy elite) are allowed to compete, is not introduced. Have anybody who wants to compete, if they have the athletic ability, be allowed to do so, even if they have earned money in other athletic events. I assume that only males could compete until the twentieth century, though.
 
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