and the King of Greece himself opened the first modern Olympic Games on April 6, 1896 (March 24 on the Greek calendar). The honour of being the first Olympic champion of the modern era fell to ...
Seven candidates in the IOC presidential election came to the most sacred Olympic site two days before the contest Thursday ...
Evangelos Zappas was born in 1800 in Lambovo, Epirus, in a time of turbulence and change. He was a child of a Greece that was ...
These interests led him to revive the ancient Olympic Games and in Athens in 1896, the first modern Olympic Games were held.
It has hosted the Summer Games twice before and will now join ... than once dating back to the event's origination in 1896. The 2024 Olympics will allow Paris to join London as the only cities ...