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Cricket to have six teams at 2028 Olympics, 90-player quota given on Games return
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On This Day in 1896 the First Modern Olympic Games Began in Athens
On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...
Greek City Times5d
On this day in 1896, the first Modern Olympic Games begins in Athens
On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games were reborn in Athens, 1,500 years after Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned them in 393 ...
Greek City Times5d
April 6,1957: Onassis buys Olympic Airways and the “Golden Era” begins
Aristotle Onassis acquired Olympic Airways from the Greek government, ushering in what would become known as the "Golden Era" ...
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Today in Sports – UConn sweeps the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball crown in the same year
1896 — The first modern Olympic Games begin in Athens, Greece. James B. Connelly wins the first event — the hop, step and jump. 1936 — Horton Smith edges Harry Cooper by one stroke to win the Masters.
Bringing alive the magic of the Olympics
History and Stars of the World’s Greatest Sporting Event from Athens 1896 to Paris 2024 is a fresh compilation of the Games ...
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Olympic boxing saved as IOC Session votes to bring the sport back into the 2028 Games in Los Angeles
The chair of World Boxing's Olympic Commission, Gennadiy Golovkin, who secured a silver medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 before going on to win the middleweight world title in the professional ...
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IShowSpeed Would Have Been an Olympic Gold Medalist in 1896 With His New 100 Meters Record
But while his other gigs land him enormous attention from fans and viewers worldwide, what recently seems to have been catching a lot of stares was the track record he made in a 100-meter run. In fact ...
The Hindu21d
Kirsty Coventry to lead International Olympic Committee
Coventry won back-to-back titles in 200-meters backstroke at the 2004 Athens Olympics and Beijing four years later. She joined the IOC in 2013, almost one year after a disputed athlete election at ...
Japan Today21d
Kirsty Coventry elected IOC president, becoming first woman, first African to lead global Olympic body
Her win on Thursday will only add to Bach's legacy for promoting women. Coventry won back-to-back titles in 200-meters backstroke at the 2004 Athens Olympics and Beijing four years later. She joined ...
WION21d
Meet Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry, first woman to be elected as International Olympic Committee president
Her breakthrough came when she represented Zimbabwe at the 2000 Sydney Olympics as a teenager. Her true dominance in swimming was established during the 2004 Athens Olympics, where she won gold in the ...
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Kirsty Coventry elected IOC president and is first woman, first African to lead global Olympic body
Coventry won back-to-back titles in 200-meters backstroke at the 2004 Athens Olympics and Beijing four years later. She joined the IOC in 2013, almost one year after a disputed athlete election at ...