FILE - This is an undated photo showing Spyridon Louis, winner of the race that would come to be known as the marathon in the first modern revival of the ancient Greek sports festival. By April 10, ...

The Tokyo Olympics are almost a month away. Apart from London and Athens, it is one of the few cities to have the distinction of having hosted the Summer Olympics more than once. However, what is the ...

This summer the Olympic games are returning to their birthplace. This is not, however, the first time since antiquity that they have been hosted there. In 1896, at the urging of a French educator ...

Awarded at the first modern Games in Athens, the historic prize far exceeded estimates on Sunday, selling for roughly quadruple its top expected price, 1,152,000 Danish kroner (€156,253) including ...

STACKER — Ancient Greeks began the tradition of celebrating athletic prowess and prestige in their Olympic Games, held every four years in honor of the mythological god Zeus. In 1896, the ...

An extraordinary piece of sporting and cultural history has sold at auction in Denmark. A medal from the world's first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896 has fetched around €100,000 at a sale ...

The item was part a Graham Budd Sporting Memorabilia auction at Sotheby's in London. The two-day auction includes more than a thousand pieces of sporting memorabilia from a wide range of sport. The ...

Members of the athletics team of the US Princeton University pose at the first modern International Summer Olympic Games held at the Panathinaiko Stadium in April 1896 in Athens. From left to right: ...

The first Olympic Games took place more than a century ago in Athens, Greece, with 43 events, 241 athletes and 14 teams, from April 6-15, 1896, according to the Olympics. Photos from the first Summer ...

The first modern Olympics opened on this day 120 years ago, an anniversary not lost on Google. The website unveiled four Google Doodle images last night in honor of the Athens 1896 Games. Those Games ...

Sports » LONDON 2012 | July 27, 2012, Friday // 19:58 "This unequivocally proves Bulgaria's place as one of the few co-founders and participants in the restored Olympics games," the BOC said Friday.

The first of the modern Olympic Games was staged in the Greek capital Athens, although financial difficulties almost saw it held in Budapest, Hungary. Initially it was intended that Paris would host ...