Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan nasarar wasannin 1896, wasannin Olympics sun shiga wani lokacin da ya yi barazana ga rayuwarsa. Wasannin Olympics da aka gudanar a Paris Exposition a 1900 da Louisiana Purchase Exposition a St. Louis a 1904 sun kasa jawo hankalin mutane da yawa ko kulawa. A cikin 'yan wasa 650 a wasannin Olympics na 1904, 580 'yan Amirka ne; wanda ya ci tseren marathon
daga baya aka cire shi daga gasar bayan an gano hotonsa yana hawa mota a lokacin tseren. Wasannin sun sake dawowa tare da Wasannin Wasannin 1906 (wanda ake kira saboda sune wasannin Olympics na biyu da za a yi a cikin Olympiad na uku), wanda aka gudanar a Athens. Wadannan Wasannin sun jawo hankalin mahalarta na duniya da yawa kuma sun haifar da sha'awar jama'a, wanda ya nuna farkon karuwar shahararrun wasannin Olympics da girman su. Wasannin na 1906 an amince da su a hukumance ta IOC a lokacin (duk da cewa ba yanzu ba), kuma ba a gudanar da Wasannin Intercalated ba tun daga lokacin.