But there is a long history of unusual ... and today "even Olympics fanatics are unaware that arts, along with athletics, were a part of the modern Games." Justin Klawans has worked as a staff ...

ATHENS, GREECE – The first Modern Olympic Games included just nine events ... LONDON, UK – For the first time in history, women competed from every country. Saudi Arabia its first female ...

A gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, the first ever hosted in the United States, just sold for $545,371 at ...

The artifact, from the first Games held in the United States, reaped the third-highest price ever fetched for an Olympic medal at auction ...

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 first in history to take place outside of a ...

Modern pentathlon was created by the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin as an homage ... South Korea’s Seong Seung-Min looks to make history as the youngest female medalist in ...

On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were thrilled by ...

The 2024 Summer Olympic Games are finally here, back in the city where the modern Olympic Games were ... For the first time in the history of the Summer Olympics, you will be able to watch every ...

A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis is being auctioned off as part of a larger collection of memorabilia ...

I have had a lifelong love of both history and the Olympics ... and doping have been around since the dawn of the modern Olympic Games in 1896. In 1904 Thomas Hicks won the Olympic marathon ...

The modern Olympic Games is billed as the largest multi-sport event in the world, with a history dating back to 1896. Yet ...

A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis has been sold at auction for $545,371 as part of a larger collection of ...