Whatever the precise origin of the games ... Over time the site of Olympia, in southern Greece, became famous for its temples and monuments. The gold and ivory Statue of Zeus that sat upon ...

This is the stadium at Olympia. It was built during the 4th century BC and it was the largest of its kind at the time. It could seat 50,000 spectators! Olympia was not only a centre of sport but ...

The 2018 Winter Olympics are bigger and more extreme than ... This Wall Street Journal brief history series helps explain the now, by looking back at how we got here.

Not only will it add some more in 2028, but the nation now has another Olympics lined up for 2034. Let’s take a look at a ...

The Parade of Nations at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will look significantly different than the procession has in the past. For the first time in the history of the Summer Olympics ...

History was again made in February 2010 ... were motivated to showcase the flag in hopes of getting a Sri Lankan team ready for a future Winter Olympics. This country has yet to participate in a ...

(Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) The men’s and women’s race walking events continued at the Rio Olympics on Friday and so did the Internet’s snark about the sport. But it wasn’t always such ...

While the first Olympic Winter Games were not officially contested until 1924, figure skating entered Olympic history in 1908 at the London Summer Games. Pairs, men’s, and ladies’ events were ...

whose decades-long obsession with the Olympics is culminating in a new book delving into the Olympics’ lengthy design history. Published by Swiss niggli, the book traces the Olympic design history in ...