Coroebus (a cook from Elis), won the sole event at the Olympics, the stade - a run of approximately 192 meters (210 yards). This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history. The ancient ...

The 2018 Winter Olympics are bigger and more extreme than ... This Wall Street Journal brief history series helps explain the now, by looking back at how we got here.

Between 776 BC and 393 AD, the Ancient Olympics took place in Greece every four years. They then sat dormant for over 1,500 years before they were revived once more in 1896. This is the history of the ...

Every four years, the eyes of the sporting world turn to the Olympic Games. The athletic festival is heralded as the foremost multi-sports competition on the planet, with roots dating back thousands ...

The 2024 Paris Olympics featured breaking for the first time, as well as other unconventional Olympic events like surfing and skateboarding. But there is a long history of unusual events being ...

whose decades-long obsession with the Olympics is culminating in a new book delving into the Olympics’ lengthy design history. Published by Swiss niggli, the book traces the Olympic design history in ...

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Paris is hosting its third summer Olympics. While we don’t yet know what the legacy of this year’s games will be, let’s take the opportunity to reflect on the city’s previous Olympics of ...

This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history. The ancient Olympic Games grew and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor ...