The Shropshire sporting event that inspired the modern Olympic movement may have to move out of its hometown where it has been held for more than a century - due to a deteriorating running track.
A previous Much Wenlock Olympian Games in 2018. In Picture: Under 17 Mens Pentathlon - Ed Barns 15 from Shrewsbury and Dan Kimber 16 from Kidderminster
This weekend, the climax of the 138th Much Wenlock Olympian Games takes place at the athletics track at William Brookes School, where competitors from all over the UK, and sometimes the world, come to compete at the historical games.Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the International Olympic Committee, visited the games in Much Wenlock in 1890 before setting up the first modern Olympic Games six years later in Athens.
Each year, the Olympian Games holds a host of events including fencing, archery, badminton as well as live arts, but the highlight of the games each year is the track and field athletics that are held on the sports ground of William Brookes School.
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