The arrival of Kiriakos Giannopoulos as head of the Hellenic Swimming Federation has boosted Greek Swimming to its loftiest heights.

In his Histories, ancient Greek historian Herodotus described the first winches. They were wooden and used to tighten cables that supported a pontoon bridge that crossed the Hellespont during the ...

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In this Aug. 4 X post, for example, a user stated that during the original Olympics held in ancient Greece, women were not allowed to compete in or even attend any events: (@sales_belinda / X) ...

Men's discus has been a part of every modern Olympics while women's discus debuted alongside the women's 100m, 800m, 4x100m relay and high jump at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.

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THE SACRED SITE OF OLYMPIA The games are held at the site of Olympia, very close to the city of Elis. Other cities in Greece held games but the ancient Olympics were the most famous and prestigious.

The other was discus, but that was won by an American: Robert Garrett, a “long-armed athlete who had never seen a discus, let alone thrown one, but who decided to enter the event just for the ...

Nearly 2,800 years ago, ancient Greek Olympic champions were crowned with wreaths. Then, in the early modern games starting in 1896, champions went home with clocks, cups, trophies and even paintings.

Iphitus is a figure that appears in other records of the Olympics. He was the king of Elis and was supposedly the founder of the festival. Thus, in this passage, Plutarch is saying that Aristotle ...

This is the story of the 1904 Olympic Games held in St Louis. At the heart of the Games were the Irish and central to the Games was an Irish American man who had parents from Kenmare.