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 ...

The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was a multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece, from 6 to 15 April 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games ...

Just five cities have hosted the Summer Olympics more than once dating back to the event's origination in 1896. The 2024 Olympics will allow Paris to join London as the only cities to host the ...

The Olympics are rooted in tradition, with the first official Summer Olympics staged in 1896 in Athens, Greece that drew athletes from 13 nations. Ever since then, the marathon has been a mainstay ...

their best performance - at the time - for several decades The Athens Olympics were meant to be a celebration of the Games' history, as the spiritual home of Olympic sport hosted the world in the ...

A medal from the first modern Olympic Games held in at the 1896 Athens is expected to sell for around $30,000 at an upcoming auction in September. Ben Jones, from Mullock’s Auctioneers ...

BEIJING--The first so-called modern Olympics took place in 1896 in Athens. But the inaugural Winter ... From 1924 through 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympics were the same year.

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 ...