After a week traveling throughout Greece, the handover ceremony will take place in the Athens Panathenaic Stadium on April 27. Written and reported by Karen Rosenin Ancient Olympia. For general ...

in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium by ...

The Panathenaic Stadium held the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 ... are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running ... And this is the stadium where it all happens. Now these guys are just training so they’re allowed ...

The Games began in 776BC in ancient Greece at the sacred ... grew up in Olympia, where he used to play with friends among the ancient stadium ruins. "For the ancient Greeks, the Olympics were ...

With certain traditional exceptions including Greece – the historical home of the ancient Olympic Games – entering ... of directly following Greece and the Olympic Refugee Team into the Tokyo Olympic ...