Cricket is making a return to Olympics for the first time since a transient appearance in 1900 Paris Olympics. The upcoming ...

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

On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games were reborn in Athens, 1,500 years after Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned them in 393 ...

It was on April 6 in 1917, that the United States abandoned its stance of neutrality and officially joined the Allied powers ...

2004 — Led by Diana Taurasi, UConn beats Tennessee 70-61 for its third straight women’s title. This is the first time one school sweeps the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball crown in the same year.

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

The U.S. will host the Military World Games for the first time in 2027, when it comes to Charlotte, North Carolina, bringing ...

Arts being an Olympic sport? Did you know the original vision for the Olympics included the arts? The first modern Olympic games were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. The revival of this international ...

and the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece. In Dallas, the world was changing too—at least in the Springtown community, or Deep Ellum as we know it today. “So, in 1896 ...

Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry became the first woman and African to be elected ... He then oversaw the highly-praised hosting of those Olympics and has been credited with reforming track and field's ...

COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job ...

PYLOS, Greece - Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organisation’s first female and first African president in its 130 ...