Members of the athletics team of the US Princeton University pose at the first modern International Summer Olympic Games held at the Panathinaiko Stadium in April 1896 in Athens. From left to right: ...

FILE - This is an undated photo showing Spyridon Louis, winner of the race that would come to be known as the marathon in the first modern revival of the ancient Greek sports festival. By April 10, ...

Agones Olympic Myth and Revival is a new television documentary on the first modern Olympic Games which is to be premiered this Sunday on Greek National Television. The narrative moves across Europe ...

The Tokyo Olympics are almost a month away. Apart from London and Athens, it is one of the few cities to have the distinction of having hosted the Summer Olympics more than once. However, what is the ...

As the 2026 Winter Olympics command global attention in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, a quieter but historically charged moment is unfolding a few nations to the north. Denmark’s Bruun Rasmussen is ...

This summer the Olympic games are returning to their birthplace. This is not, however, the first time since antiquity that they have been hosted there. In 1896, at the urging of a French educator ...

The first Olympic Games took place more than a century ago in Athens, Greece, with 43 events, 241 athletes and 14 teams, from April 6-15, 1896, according to the Olympics. Photos from the first Summer ...

On 6 April 1896, the inaugural Games opened in the Greek capital. Over the next nine days, male athletes from 12 countries competed in sports ranging from running to rope-climbing. See how the ...

The first modern Olympics opened on this day 120 years ago, an anniversary not lost on Google. The website unveiled four Google Doodle images last night in honor of the Athens 1896 Games. Those Games ...

A winner's prize medal from the first Modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 has sold at auction for £180,000 ($286,000/€229,500). The item was part a Graham Budd Sporting Memorabilia auction at ...

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The first of the modern Olympic Games was staged in the Greek capital Athens, although financial difficulties almost saw it held in Budapest, Hungary. Initially it was intended that Paris would host ...