The modern Olympics were the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Hellenophile French educator and historian with a strong belief in the power of sport to form character and to promote peace ...

Co-organized by the Greek embassy in China and the Beijing Olympic City Development Association, the exhibition, traces over ...

Olympic Day is celebrated every year on 23 June to honour the birth of the modern Olympics. Learn why it started and also ...

One American athlete, Jess Davis, qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics in modern pentathlon. Here's who the competition works and what to know.

In 1896, a curmudgeonly classics scholar covered the first modern Olympics in Athens for The Atlantic; the games drew around 250 athletes from 14 countries (this summer’s games include ...

PARIS — The sport of modern pentathlon, a niche outlier at the Olympics, is getting rid of its horse competitions after the Paris Games and bringing in “American Ninja Warrior”-style ...

The Olympics are haunted by the ghosts of sports that were once included in the Summer Games, only to be later discarded later. Tug-of-war, solo synchronized swimming, live pigeon shooting, rope ...

Every year on June 23, people from around the world participate in Olympic Day. In Lake Placid, it was a good excuse to honor ...

The modern Olympic Games are notorious for saddling host cities with burdensome cost overruns into the billions. Organizers for the Paris 2024 Olympics were aware of this and planned to put on one ...

The sport of modern pentathlon, a niche outlier at the Olympics, is getting rid of its horse competitions after the Paris Games and bringing in “American Ninja Warrior”-style obstacle courses ...

The modern Olympics were the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Hellenophile French educator and historian with a strong belief in the power of sport to form character and to promote peace ...