On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium by walking under this archway.

Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the flame through 41 Greek towns to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. From Athens, the torch boarded the “Belem,” a three-masted ship that dates back to 1896, the ...

Welcome to Olympia, the site of the original Olympic ... Greece. Meaning all wars or disputes must be paused so that athletes and spectators can travel safely to and from Olympia. And this is the ...

The Paris Olympics flame has been formally handed to French organisers in the all-marble stadium where the first modern Games were held in Athens in 1896. Greek ... The Olympic flame will be ...

A new 60,000-seat Olympic stadium in inner-city parkland and a rowing venue in a crocodile-inhabited river have been unveiled ...

Chaoyang Park, Beijing's largest park, was home to a temporary 12,200-seat stadium that ... for the home country. Greece's Olympic Beach Volleyball Center, a 10,000-seat arena constructed south of ...

The ceremony at the site of the stadium where the Olympics ... Stefanos Ntouskos, a Greek Olympic gold medal-winning rower, was the first runner to carry the torch on its journey to France.