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 ...

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

The four-hour opening ceremony was unlike any other in the 128 years of the modern Olympics. In pouring rain, a flotilla of 85 barges carried 6,800 athletes three and a half miles down the Seine ...

For 125 years, the modern Olympic Games have highlighted the peak of human athletic endeavor as reflected in the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC’s) motto—“Faster, Higher, Stronger.” Host cities ...

Every four years, the Olympic Summer Games bring together the world's top athletes to compete at the highest level. This quadrennial schedule, a tradition since the modern Olympics began in 1896 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been 130 years since educator Coubertin proclaimed the founding of the modern Olympics in Paris. He was inspired by the “Ancient Olympics” held in Olympia on the Peloponnese Peninsula ...