FILE – Elena Micheli of Italy, right, and Amira Kandil of Egypt compete in the fencing portion of the women’s modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 6, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan ...

How the modern Olympics link sports and religion De Coubertin, a French pacifist and Catholic, lived in tumultuous times. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, industrialization, rebellions and wars ...

The first Olympic Games are traditionally dated to 776BC. Games were held all over ancient Greece; but the most famous were held every four years in the sanctuary at Olympia, in the Peloponnese ...

Fencers compete at the first modern Olympic Games on April 7, 1896, in Athens, Greece. Back then, only about 250 athletes took part. ... Some of the sports in 1896 were different.

The Olympic Games is the foremost international competition for the world’s most popular sports. Since the start of the modern Olympics in 1896, the events included in the Olympic Games have ...

Before the Olympics started, the two hosts gave rapid-fire previews of all 39 sports, focused on structure, format, changes from previous Olympics, top names to know, key story lines and favorites.

Modern pentathlon was created by the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin as an homage to the duties required of a solider in the late 19th century to test the strengths of the ...

See the designs and elements of all modern Olympic medals since 1896 By Nina Lin • Published July 14, 2021 • Updated on February 2, 2022 at 2:57 pm BOOKMARKER ...

Find out which individual athletes and countries have the most medals of all time since the modern Games began in 1896. Since 1980, more than 100 events have been added to the Summer Olympics ...

This is not modern pentathlon’s first existential challenge: Its place in the Olympics has been under threat for years because of its relative unpopularity with the sports fans of today ...

Shooting has been part of every modern Olympics except for 1896, 1904 and 1928. Olympics shooting medal table The U.S. is far and away the winningest country in Olympic shooting history.

The Olympics have always provided electrifying spectacles, from Bob Beamon's long jump in 1968, to gymnast Nadia Comaneci's perfect ten at Montreal in 1976, to Usain Bolt's record-breaking sprints ...