Before the Olympics started, the two hosts gave rapid-fire previews of all 39 sports, focused on structure ... field hockey, modern pentathlon, gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics.

some lapping it up and others finding it not at all to their taste. Horses have been a part of the oft-reinvented five-discipline event since modern Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin introduced ...

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 ...

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).

The first Olympic Games are traditionally dated to 776BC. Games were held all over ancient Greece ... began in 1850. The modern Olympics were the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a ...

The Paris Olympics’ picturesque ... would end with modern racers collapsing, just as Pheidippides was said to. “A race of this length is, in fact, contrary to all principles of sport and ...

Storylines to Follow —A chance to watch the ultimate all-round athletes in Paris. Probably the quirkiest sport at the Olympics, modern pentathlon challenges athletes to swim, run, fence ...

Today, the modern Olympics carry forward this legacy, uniting athletes from all over the world. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news ...

Like the ancient games, the first modern Games featured a field of all male competitors ... and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual ...

PARIS, France — Inspired by the traditional pentathlon of the ancient Olympic Games, the modern pentathlon is an all-around competition that tests athletes on their skills across five ...