Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes ... silver and bronze medals. Winners were given ...

In fact, during the Rio games, Phelps broke the world record for most individual gold medals won by a single Olympian — a record held for 2,160 years by ancient Greek runner Leonidas of Rhodes.

At the ancient Olympics in Greece, athletes weren’t the only stars ... Modern history’s first written work to win an Olympic ...

Not many events in history show what the culture of ancient Greece was like as well as the Panhellenic Games do.

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

It features an image of Zeus, the ancient Greek god of gods with the insignia ‘Olympia’. The medal is edged in bronze with the the Greek words “First International Olympic Games, Athens 1896 ...

He also has a pair of bronze medals and dozens of medals won outside of ... of the French motto of equality and fraternity. The idea for the Olympic flame has its roots in ancient Greece, where a ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected today as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee, and the first ...

Handball as we know it was invented in Germany and Scandinavia in the late 1800s, but sports of a similar nature can be traced back all the way to ancient Greece ... Has the U.S. ever won an Olympic ...

The history of Olympic medals paints a vivid picture of human ... This event marked the rebirth of the ancient Greek tradition, albeit with some modifications. Unlike today, winners were awarded ...