ATHENS, GREECE – The first Modern Olympic Games included just nine events. Winners didn’t receive three levels of medals like they do today, instead they each received an olive branch and a ...

Runners getting ready to run the 100-metre course at the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece, 1896. (public domain) ATHENS, GREECE — The first modern Olympic Games included just nine sports.

The modern Olympic Games have been around for more than 120 years and, in that time, many sporting records have been set, broken and celebrated. But what about the places that have hosted these ...

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 ...

Diversity is one of the cornerstones of the Olympic Games. For weeks we get to see people ... While skateboarding is mostly ...