The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia ... saw when they came to this valley five hundred years before the birth of Christ but from fragments of written evidence, experts have ...

The future of an athletics event which inspired the birth of the modern Olympics ... up the International Olympic Committee in 1894 after visiting the Wenlock Olympian Games, founded by Dr William ...

The pentathlon was the event from which the modern Olympics derives many of its events, including the discus, javelin, long jump, running and wrestling. Aristotle said of it "a body capable of ...

We can’t be certain of what people saw when they came to this valley five hundred years before the birth of Christ but ... were allowed to go to the Olympic Games. Married women were not allowed.

You probably wouldn't even realize you were watching the Olympics if you were to step back in time to watch the second modern Olympic Games held in Paris in 1900. The games were held to coincide ...

Thousands of years later, this image appealed to Pierre de Coubertin, a French baron best known as the founder of the modern ...

This picturesque town played a part in the birth of the modern Olympic Games. Much Wenlock is the birthplace of Dr William Penny Brookes, the inspiration for the modern Olympic Movement and ...

Equestrian was part of the ancient Olympic Games and included events such as horseback racing and chariot racing, which were introduced to the Games in 680 BC. Equestrian events in the modern Olympics ...