Born in 1863, Baron Pierre de Coubertin had grown up in the shadow of his country's devastating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. He decided that France had lost the war due to ...

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Although much has changed since the first modern-day Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, one thing that has remained constant is an athlete’s pursuit for the medals table in the name of ...

Games legacy almost non-existant with stadiums falling into disrepair Athens motto was 'welcome home' but ten years later there is little to show for the games Britain won nine gold medals in 2004 ...

Athens to Athens (The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC 1894-2004) by David Miller (Mainstream Publishing, 2003) The Olympics. Athens to Athens 1896-2004 by (Weidenfeld and ...

Each competitor runs in his or her own lane and has ten hurdles to jump. The men’s event was first run at the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens, and the women’s event made its debut at the 1932 Olympic ...

In one of the biggest upsets in Olympic cycling history, Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria won the women's road race Sunday afternoon in Japan to capture her nation's first Olympic medal since the inaugural ...

Olympic athletes will spend most of their lives working relentlessly towards a once-in-a-lifetime moment. It’s much the same for graphic designer and historian Markus Osterwalder, whose decades-long ...