Unlike Olympic medals these days which are mostly made of silver with gold plating, these were smaller and made entirely of ...

When, in Athens on 6 April 1896, the US athlete James Connolly won the triple jump event at the inaugural Olympic Games of the modern era, he became the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years ...

The first modern games of the Summer Olympics took place in Athens, Greece in 1896, and are held to honor the ancient games held in Olympia, Greece in 776 CE. Like many events, the games are no ...

Cycling's history at the modern Olympics dates back to the very first Olympiad in Athens in 1896, which included an 87km road race - won by a Greek, Aristides Konstantinidis - and track races. There ...

These interests led him to revive the ancient Olympic Games and in Athens in 1896, the first modern Olympic Games were held.

The Olympic Games, a festival in honour of Zeus, god of Olympus (a mountain 150 miles away in northern Greece), were abolished with the advent of Christianity in AD 393. In his beautifully written ...