Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site ... King of Greece himself opened the first modern Olympic Games on April 6, 1896 (March 24 on the Greek ...

their best performance - at the time - for several decades The Athens Olympics were meant to be a celebration of the Games' history, as the spiritual home of Olympic sport hosted the world in the ...

Evangelos Zappas was born in 1800 in Lambovo, Epirus, in a time of turbulence and change. He was a child of a Greece that was ...

The Olympic Games, a symbol of global unity and athletic excellence, trace their origins to ancient Greece over 3,000 years ...

A report by the International Olympic Committee in 2022 found that 85% of venues, stadiums and structures (from the 1896 Games in Athens through the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang) used for the ...

A medal from the first modern Olympic Games held in at the 1896 Athens is expected to sell for around $30,000 at an upcoming auction in September. Ben Jones, from Mullock’s Auctioneers ...

The Olympic Games' opening ceremonies are a chance ... The very first Olympics of the modern era took place in Athens in 1896. By modern standards, the opening ceremony was a modest affair and ...

The Panathenaic Stadium became the first modern Olympic venue in the world, when it hosted the summer Games in 1896. The only stadium in the world to be completely made of marble, it can seat as ...

Although much has changed since the first modern-day Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, one thing that has remained constant is an athlete’s pursuit for the medals table in the name of ...

Bruce Pearl (Auburn), and Todd Golden (Florida) make history by leading their teams to the top of NCAA rankings, symbolizing ...