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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the 2024 Paris Olympics, the modern pentathlon is getting, well, more modern.Rather than spreading the event across an entire week by doing one event per day, athletes are now completing all ...

PARIS, France — Coming from Greek meaning "contest of five events," the modern pentathlon is an all-around competition that tests athletes on their skills across five challenging and somewhat ...

Paris 2024 Olympics - Modern Pentathlon - Men's Final Riding Show Jumping - Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France - August 10, 2024. Woongtae Jun of South Korea riding Api d'Espoir in action.

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 ...