On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...
Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th president overall of the organization that was founded in 1894. IOC members ...
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 ...
As a result, no women were allowed to compete in the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. However, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The first official modern Olympic Games dates back to ... single competing country sent a female athlete to the Olympics. That same year, the addition of women’s boxing meant that female ...
Coubertin began his 29-year term at age 33 in 1896, the year of the first modern Olympics in Athens, Greece. Thursday's vote was held in Costa Navarino, Greece, about 60 miles south of Olympia ...