The quadrennial celebration ... talk LA Olympics head says 2028 games will be a catalyst for rebuild. Count on Kendrick Lamar too Kirsty Coventry elected IOC president and is first woman, first ...

Olympic Day is celebrated every year on 23 June to honour the birth of the modern Olympics. Learn why it started and also ...

The modern Olympics is a global showcase and celebration of extraordinary athletic ... What is the origin of the Olympics? The first Olympic Games were held in the summer of 776 B.C. in Greece ...

In 1896, a curmudgeonly classics scholar covered the first modern Olympics in Athens for The Atlantic; the games drew around 250 athletes from 14 countries (this summer’s games include ...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC), in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), has launched the next ...

They ended around AD394, when Theodosius I outlawed pagan celebrations ... The 1908 London Games were the first in which the modern Olympics began recognisably to emerge. A large stadium was ...

While the first modern Olympics were held in Greece in 1896 ... It was inspired by the ancient Greeks, who celebrated both physical and artistic excellence. Coubertin introduced arts to the ...

Cricket has always united us, and now, it's part of the Olympic movement! On this #OlympicDay, let's celebrate the power of ...