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

New mixed gender competitions are among the medal events approved for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Here's the full list.

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 ...

The mint in France responsible for producing medals for the 2024 Summer Olympics will replace some of the hardware given out to athletes following complaints of deterioration in the medal varnish.

As international delegates debated the rules for the first modern games ... Two years after the Games, Olympic officials stripped Thorpe of his medals and erased his name from the record books ...

The first-ever Olympic medal for compound archers will be awarded at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, following the ...

Did the Paris Olympics 2024 just shift the game? The post Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky & Co’s Domination Rewrite the Rules for ...

Modern pentathlon tests athletes across five separate disciplines ... She is the only female pentathlete to earn more than one Olympic medal. On the opposite side of the age spectrum, South Korea’s ...

It may come as a surprise to hear, but Olympic medals weren't always handed out ... Known as 'The Father of Modern Olympics', Coubertin's main ambition was to place sport at the center of French ...

The prizes were: silver medal plus olive branch for the winner ... and for the Zappas Games, see David C. Young, The Modern Olympics: A Struggle for Revival (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins ...

The modern pentathlon made its Olympic debut on the men’s side in ... Davis is aiming to be the first American to medal in the modern pentathlon since Emily deRiel earned silver the Sydney ...