Spyros Louis, the first Marathon winner of the modern Olympics. Spyros Louis (12 January 1873 – 26 March 1940), was a Greek ...

Greek runners Charalampos Pitsolis and Stamatia Noula won the 39th “Athens Marathon, the Authentic” (AMA), which took place ...

Sung Seung-min, who became the first Asian female modern pentathlon athlete to win a medal at the Paris Olympics, ranked ...

Fly de Vesquerie, who helped Elodie Clouvel win a silver medal in the modern pentathlon, will be awarded France's Bronze Medal of National Defense. The other three to be honored are Dicton de ...

Fly de Vesquerie, the horse which helped Elodie Clouvel to a silver medal in the modern pentathlon in the Paris Olympics, is ...

On February 16, 1937, as the morning sun cast its golden rays over the iconic red soil of Benin City, a baby boy was born ...

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, highly appreciated the pentathlon of the ... against each other athlete in a bout lasting one minute or until the first hit, and a ...

But what are the rules governing swimming at the Olympics? History of Olympic Swimming Aquatic sports were part of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, with four events, including the 100-meter ...

The Argentiere Glacier valley behind the Grands Montets ski area.

A look through footage from the Paris 1924 Olympics gives viewers a chance to reflect on how much has changed. Thomas Edison ...

The first Olympic Games in the new millennia were held in Sydney ... Lasting 187 days, the Games was the longest in modern Olympics history. The Games was originally scheduled to be held in Rome, but ...