A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis has been sold at auction for $545,371 as part of a larger collection of ...

A gold medal awarded to the winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, the first Games hosted on U.S.

There were no women athletes at the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896, because its founder, Pierre de Coubertin, thought women were "not cut out to sustain certain shocks". More than 100 years ...

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

It also gives us some of the most controversial moments in Summer Olympics history. The first modern games of the Summer Olympics took place in Athens, Greece in 1896, and are held to honor the ...

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, highly appreciated the pentathlon of the ... against each other athlete in a bout lasting one minute or until the first hit, and a ...

The first Olympic Games in the new millennia were held in Sydney ... Lasting 187 days, the Games was the longest in modern Olympics history. The Games was originally scheduled to be held in Rome, but ...

In the 19th Century, competitive running and running races were happening in Europe with the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. Running was only done in order to compete and women’s racing was still ...

The sport will be officially adopted as a modern pentathlon event at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. In Japan ... The Yoshinogawa course was completed in April. The first competition attracted about ...

Otherwise, the IOC announced karate will be making its first ever appearance in 2020 ... with the opening ceremony on July 24. Japan has a proud modern Olympics history, dating back to its successful ...