The 2024 Paris olympics is currently underway, and is set to end on Sunday, August 11. However, it bears little semblance to ...

The modern Olympics is a global showcase and celebration ... Here's a look at the history of the Games, from ancient Greece ...

Olympic Games list Athens 1896 - where it all began 1,500 years after the end of the ancient Olympics, the modern Olympic Games we know and love today were born. It was organised by the ...

Modern pentathlon was created by the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin as an homage ... South Korea’s Seong Seung-Min looks to make history as the youngest female medalist in ...

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 ...

1924. (Photo by: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Art competitions formed part of the modern Olympics during its early years, from 1912 to 1948. The competitions were ...

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

In the history of the modern Olympic Games, no other country is even close to Team USA’s total medal count. Since competing in Athens in 1896, the United States has won 2,985 total medals ...

In team dressage, 52-year-old Reiner Klimke, participating in his sixth Olympics for West Germany, became the most decorated equestrian rider in Olympic history when he claimed ... Equestrian events ...

The future of an athletics event which inspired the birth of the modern Olympics is in ... as a "very special place in the history of the Olympic games," but said the current running track ...

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.