De Coubertin would have the first Games in 1900 in Paris, because he came from France. But the IOC (the International Olympic Committee) saw other candidates, Budapest and Athens. The IOC decided that the first Games in 1896 in Athens should be. But the government did not like the idea (financial), but the people want it. The chance that Budapest should organize it grow, but a rich Greek man would pay the costs, so the Olympics were in Athens.
The Olympics were the best of the work of "de Coubertin".