When, in Athens on 6 April 1896, the US athlete James Connolly won the triple jump event at the inaugural Olympic Games of the modern era, he became the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years ...

Seven competition venues were used at the Olympic Games Athens 1896, five of which remain in use today: Panathenaic Stadium (athletics, artistic gymnastics, weightlifting), Athens Lawn Tennis Club ...

Japan's Morinari Watanabe is a rank outsider to become International Olympic Committee president but he hopes his "crazy idea ...

Japan's Morinari Watanabe is a rank outsider to become International Olympic Committee president but he hopes his "crazy idea ...

From the first football tournament in 1900 to the present day, a look at the nations which won Olympic medals in the ...

He is proposing to host the Games simultaneously in five cities across five continents in a bid to reduce costs and let the ...

India sent a contingent of 73 athletes in 14 sports to Athens. The first Olympic Games in the new millennia were held ... Who started the modern Olympic Games and in which year? The modern Olympic ...

The Olympic Games, a festival in honour of Zeus, god of Olympus (a mountain 150 miles away in northern Greece), were abolished with the advent of Christianity in AD 393. In his beautifully written ...

As always, cycling will be a big part of the Games - 480 of the event's 10,500 athletes are cyclists, comprising 212 road cyclists (145 men and 67 women); 188 track riders (153 men and 35 women) and ...

These interests led him to revive the ancient Olympic Games and in Athens in 1896, the first modern Olympic Games were held.