The 1908 London Games were the first in which the modern Olympics began recognisably to emerge. A large stadium was built at White City, and athletes joined an opening ceremony parade behind their ...

A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil was sold at auction for over half a million dollars, part of ...

There were no women athletes at the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896, because its founder, Pierre de Coubertin, thought women were "not cut out to sustain certain shocks". More than 100 years ...

The first competition in the first modern Olympics in 1896 was the 100-meter dash, with American Thomas Burke winning gold in a time of 12 seconds. More than a century later, the 100 meters ...

Infront is also the media rights-holder for the exclusive Olympic broadcast rights agreements in 22 countries across Central ...

Plan C would simply be a traditional Olympic ceremony similar to all other Olympic games to date (including Paris in 1924) going back to the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.

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 ...

This marked the first Olympics where gold medals were introduced, with the U.S. dominating by winning 78 of 96 events.