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So is there a connection between Olympia and the Olympics then? Paulbrock 08:24, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
 * No. –  iride scent  17:42, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

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Olympic Games
Does the name relate to the Olympic Games in any way? --2001:16B8:2EDA:4A00:95B0:66B2:D413:FE44 (talk) 15:26, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * No, not at all. Olympia opened in 1886. The International Olympic comittee was founded in 1894, eight years after this building was opened. IdreamofJeanie (talk) 15:32, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

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Who buily it ? Why was it called Olympia ? -- Beardo (talk) 01:43, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

History
Olympia was originally conceived in the early 1880s as the National Agricultural Hall, a larger version of the Royal Agricultural Hall in Islington. The project of building a National Agricultural Hall was conceived by Major Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (1830-1883), MP for Leicestershire North, who primarily wanted to see shows such as the military Royal Tournament, held at the Royal Agricultural Hall in Islington (1861-62, Grade II) since 1880, staged on a much larger scale and made more easily accessible by railway from across London and the rest of the country.

The site chosen was a former market garden in West Kensington, immediately adjacent to Addison Road station, already a major passenger station on the West London Railway, which became an important method of transport for visitors to Olympia. The building was branded as Olympia even before it opened as its commercial rationale quickly evolved beyond the staging of agricultural or military shows into an open-ended exploitation of what was the largest such venue in England at the time. Intended as a large indoor space for exhibitions, tournaments, sporting competitions and entertainments of various kinds, the building followed in the tradition of large-scale exhibition halls popularised by the Great Exhibition in 1851, the inspiration for various imitators in London, elsewhere in the United Kingdom, and around the world

Vladskee (talk) 14:43, 15 May 2021 (UTC)