Let’s bring it back, not as part of the actual Olympics but as a side event (and sorry harness racing devotees and Ben Hur fans, there will be no chariot racing). Let’s just for a second dream ...

Chariot racing was a sport that only the wealthiest ... The pentathlon was the event from which the modern Olympics derives many of its events, including the discus, javelin, long jump, running ...

Ancient Olympics - Yep, just like in the movies, the original Olympic Games had chariot racing events. Both 2-horse and 4-horse chariots made 12 laps around a stadium track and the winners were ...

Chariot racing only really came in when the chariot's time on the battlefield was over. It became part of the Greek Olympic Games, and in Roman times chariot racing - as re-enacted in the film Ben ...

According to tradition the first Olympics took place in 776 BC ... establish the festival after defeating King Oenomaus in a chariot race. Whatever the precise origin of the games, they became ...

She won the four-horse chariot race with her team in two consecutive Olympics. Her victories have inspired women all over Greece to start taking part in the horse events. The other events are a ...

In the ancient Olympics, chariot races and horse racing used to be part of the programme. Horses continue to remain in focus and this year at the Paris Olympics in July-August, an Indian ...

The Olympic dream for New Zealand boxers, has returned to be the ultimate goal, after seemingly being taken away due to continued corruption in the sport. Boxing dates back to the original Olympic ...

Perhaps a century after the founding of the Olympics in 776 B.C., chariot and jockeyed races were included in the games. This provided an opportunity for families to display their “hippic ...

In ancient Olympics, chariot races and horse racing used to be part of the program. Horses continue to remain in focus and this year at the Paris Olympics in July-August, an Indian, for the first ...

ATHENS, GREECE — Yep, just like in the movies, the original Olympic Games had chariot racing events. Both two-horse and four-horse chariots made 12 laps around a stadium track and the winners ...