Here are some of the highlights of the 1896 Olympics in Athens, when Spyridon Louis won the race that would come to be known as the marathon in the first modern revival of the ancient Greek sports ...

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with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900. Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance ...

Telegraph Sport has detailed the history of the modern Summer Olympics since the Games were first held in Athens in 1896, listing all summer Olympics host cities. This year’s Olympics begin on ...

Rowing made its Olympic debut at the 1900 Paris Games. The sport was actually on the program at the 1896 Olympics in Athens but was canceled due to bad weather. Until 1976, there was only a men's ...

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 ...

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 ...

(ATR) The final hours of the Athens Olympics will bring a flurry of 17 ... running on the classic course from Marathon the stadium from the 1896 Games will be the last event, the medal awarded ...

In one of the biggest upsets in Olympic cycling history, Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria won the women's road race Sunday afternoon in Japan to capture her nation's first Olympic medal since the inaugural ...

Published by Swiss niggli, the book traces the Olympic design history in the modern era, from the inaugural Olympiad in Athens dating back to 1896, to the forthcoming competition in Tokyo 2020. Each ...

It was an action-packed trip for Wheetley, meeting athletes from all over the world, celebrating his 25th birthday and visiting the site of the first modern-day Olympics (held in 1896) in Athens ...