Unlike Olympic medals these days which are mostly made of silver with gold plating, these were smaller and made entirely of ...

The modern Olympics were the brainchild ... The Olympic flame first appeared in Amsterdam in 1928, and the podium four years later. But, arguably, the Berlin Olympics in 1936, with its display ...

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 ...

This year's opening ceremony is like nothing like we've witnessed before since the beginning of the modern ... the Olympics don't happen every year, and 2024 will mark the first games in Europe ...

Many occur every four years, from the FIFA World Cup and ... some of the most controversial moments in Summer Olympics history. The first modern games of the Summer Olympics took place in Athens ...

Luge, the French word for a small sled, has been around for centuries, but it started to enter its modern form ... the then 40-year old became the first athlete in history to win six medals at six ...

John Helmick, the treasurer of the governing body of modern pentathlon, is facing a disciplinary investigation for "alleged credentials irregularities" and has left the Olympic Games in Paris.

A year ago, 19-year-old New Jersey native ... v=0X1sBoHP9CM This is the first Olympics for Kops, who is Modern Orthodox — an extreme rarity in Olympic competition — but skates on Shabbat.