Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter ... Cynisca of Sparta was a famous princess who competed in the Olympics. She was the first woman to win a race as a chariot owner against ...

Official urine drinkers tested for this ancient equivalent of steroids. Today, modern visitors just can’t resist lining up on that original starting block from the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C ...

Per tradition, the torch was lit on April 15 in Olympia, Greece, honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games ... the year of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens. The Belem ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece ... training the horses for the equestrian events. The first woman to win an event - as a trainer that is - was ...

Written by Associate Professor David PritchardThe Olympic Games immediately spring to mind when people think about sport in ...

Greece made the Olympics in 1952 ... Since 1928 Greece has been the first country in the procession of nations to open the Games, an honorific to its ancient history with the competition.

(ATR) Ancient Olympia prepares for its biennial ... on August 5 will be a secret – just as it is at every Olympic Games – the first torchbearer is usually a well-known Greek athlete.

Winter Olympics - Lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics - Ancient Olympia, Olympia, Greece - October 18, 2021 Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, playing the role ...