According to tradition the first Olympics took place in 776 BC ... hero Pelops (from which the name of the Peloponnese region of Greece originates) establish the festival after defeating King ...

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and ... a famous princess who competed in the Olympics. She was the first woman to win a race as a chariot ...

The Greeks started trading more with the outside world, held the first Olympic Games and they fought off the invading Persian army. This period is known by historians as the Archaic period of ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected on Thursday as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).