In 1896, the millennia-old tradition was revived into the modern Olympics. The first Games in the summer of 1896 included competitors from Europe and the United States and were held in Athens in ...

Despite the wishes of King George of Greece, who proposes at the closing banquet of the first modern Olympics in 1896 that all future Games be held in Athens, International Olympic Committee ...

Though the Games are meant to foster a sense of unity among nations, they’ve seen their fair share of scandal—and even tragedy. ... It was a key event when the Summer Games kicked off in 1896.

An attempt at including women in the history of the Games doesn’t really work, mostly because they were hardly permitted to compete in the 1896 Athens Olympics, or those that followed in Paris ...