Lausanne: The Swiss city that runs the Olympics
In the 1890s, when French baron Pierre de Coubertin set about reviving the ancient Greek sporting games first recorded at Olympia in 776 BCE, he thought of following classical precedent and giving his modern Olympics a single permanent location too. But though the Games became a globe-trotting extravaganza, Coubertin still made the Swiss city of Lausanne the Olympic Capital...