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 ...

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 ...

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 ...