The silver medal was made for the first modern Olympic Games, which were held in Athens in the summer of 1896. At the time, winners in each sport were awarded silver medals instead of the shiny ...

Erected for the occasion of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, the Panathenaic Stadium is the incredibly faithful ...

Spyros Louis, the first Marathon winner of the modern Olympics. Spyros Louis (12 January 1873 – 26 March 1940), was a Greek ...

Cynisca of Sparta was a famous princess who competed in the Olympics. She was the first woman to win a race as a chariot owner against men. Unmarried women had their own festival at Olympia every ...

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 ...

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