On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium.

History and Stars of the World’s Greatest Sporting Event from Athens 1896 to Paris 2024 is a fresh compilation of the Games ...

with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900. Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance ...

During the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ... Since competing in Athens in 1896, the United States has won 2,985 total medals, with 2,655 coming in the Summer Games and 330 from the Winter Games ...

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 ...

Shooting has had a presence at the Olympic Games since the first modern Games in Athens in 1896, where five events were held ... will serve as the shooting ranges for the 2024 Paris Olympics. After ...

It’s much the same for graphic designer and historian Markus Osterwalder, whose decades-long obsession with the Olympics is culminating in ... from the inaugural Olympiad in Athens dating back to 1896 ...