The following are the presidents of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since the body was founded in 1894: 2013-2025: ...

They have run through heartache and grief, battling illnesses and injuries as their bodies have aged. Some are now using ...

The race to succeed Thomas Bach as the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reaches its climax on Thursday when the 100-plus members vote in the Greek resort of Costa ...

Denver is still the only city to reject the opportunity to host the Olympic Games. Richard "Dick" Lamm, a former governor of ...

Double Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe has said bringing the Games to Africa will be a top priority if he is elected as the next president of the Int ...

The first edition of the modern Olympic Games was staged in Athens, Greece, in 1896, while the first winter edition was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. Since 1994, the Olympic Games have alternated ...

Evangelos Zappas was born in 1800 in Lambovo, Epirus, in a time of turbulence and change. He was a child of a Greece that was ...

In his beautifully written Olympics in Athens, 1896, Llewellyn Smith follows the fortunes of the founding father of the modern Olympics, the Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who was inspired both ...

Gymnastic competitions began to flourish in schools and athletic clubs across Europe, and made a fitting return at the first edition of the modern Olympic Games were revived in Athens in 1896.

1895 First women’s athletics meeting held at Vasser College, New York. 1896 The first Olympic Games of the modern era are held in Athens with 63 athletes from nine nations contesting 12 athletics ...