From Athens, the torch boarded the “Belem,” a three-masted ship that dates back to 1896, the year of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens. The Belem transported the torch across the Mediterranean ...

Some past iterations of the Olympic Games had significantly lower turnout from countries that typically participate. Just over 25 years after the modern Olympics began in 1896 as the largest ...

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

Many British people have become used to the BBC having cutting edge coverage of The Olympics so there’s been some confusion this year about both the lack of additional sports on the red button ...

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from ... a French territory in Polynesia. The modern Olympic Games were brought back by Pierre de Coubertin. He was a great promoter of physical ...

Modern pentathlon events will take place at the Palace of Versailles, the iconic home to the court of Louis XIV. The first French site to be awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 1979, the gardens ...

“As a 9-year-old girl, I never thought that I’d be standing up here one day getting to give back to this incredible movement of ours.” At 41, she will be the second-youngest IOC president after Pierre ...

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, widely credited as the founder of the modern Olympics, spent two years lobbying for the new Games to include a modern version of the pentathlon event that was a key ...

Although much has changed since the first modern-day Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, one thing that has remained constant is an athlete’s pursuit for the medals table in the name of ...