The modern Olympics were the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Hellenophile French educator and historian with a strong belief in the power of sport to form character and to promote peace ...

The modern Olympics is a global showcase and celebration of extraordinary athletic feats and fierce competition. It's an ...

Modern pentathlon was created by the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin as an homage to the duties required of a solider in the late 19th century to test the strengths of the ...

It had nothing to do with any of the breakdancer’s performances. The modern Olympic Games have always been about trying new events. Some stay, but many do not last. In 1932 in Lake Placid New ...

The country of Mexico has had a long history with the modern Olympic Games beginning with Olympiad II in Paris in 1900.

CHERYL COOKY, Purdue University: Yes, if we look at the history of the modern Olympic Games, the first game was held in 1896 and the founder at that time espoused really sexist and misogynist ...

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 ...

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 future of an athletics event which inspired the birth of the modern Olympics is in doubt, because of the state of the running track. Baron Pierre de Coubertin to set up the International ...

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.

So when the event was re-introduced into the modern Olympics in 1912 — this time as modern pentathlon and consisting of fencing, swimming, shooting, running, and equestrian show jumping — it ...

The sport of modern pentathlon was dominated by Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics. In the women’s event, Kate French reigned supreme, securing Great Britain’s first modern pentathlon Olympic medal ...