The Olympics, which took place every four years until at least 393 A.D., was the premier sporting, social and cultural ...

The 2024 Summer Olympics are fast approaching ... Here’s a history lesson on the modern Games and their ancient origins. From ...

Taking the modern past first into consideration ... The foot races at the Olympic games were of three lengths - namely, once over the course or "stadion," as it was called, and which became ...

Condensing Athens — a metropolis that was established in the fifth century BCE — into 24 hours is near impossible, but this ...

Somehow, the International Olympic Committee and the city of Antwerp and government of Belgium would stage the games after a ...

The modern Olympics began in 1896 as an attempt to revive the ancient Olympic Games (Olympias), which took place in ancient Greece from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD, in order to ...

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, widely credited as the founder of the modern Olympics, spent two years lobbying for the new Games to include a modern version of the pentathlon event that was a key ...

During the 6th Congress of the European Olympic Academies held in Greece this week, the President of the UIPM, Dr Klaus ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece ... Invite them to share some knowledge about the modern-day Olympics and explain that they are going to find ...

One of the key sports at the ancient Olympics, wrestling has been part of every modern summer Games since 1904, but was at risk of being dropped when the International Olympic Committee (IOC ...

As the 2024 Paris Olympics is in full swing, let's test your knowledge about the greatest sporting event on the planet. From ancient Greece to the modern era, the Olympics have captured hearts and ...

The main difference between ancient and modern javelins is the use of a ... becoming a key event in the Olympic Games around 708 BC as part of the pentathlon. Athletes competed not just for ...