The Soviet Union tops the all-time list with 62 gold medals ... making it one of the oldest competitive sports — if not the oldest sport — in the world. When the modern Olympic Games started in 1896, ...

In 1896, a curmudgeonly classics scholar covered the first modern Olympics ... they brokered the Olympic Truce, which called for temporary peace among city-states while friendly sports ...

Seventy-two athletes (36 men, 36 women) will compete in the men's and women's individual event competitions, respectively, with no more than two athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC).