As a result, the International Olympic Committee was organised, with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900. Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896 ...

Thousands of years later, this image appealed to Pierre de Coubertin, a French baron best known as the founder of the modern ...

IShowSpeed, 20, has set a 100-meter track record with a time of 10.5 seconds, which could have earned him an Olympic Gold ...

Since the advent of the modern-day Olympics in 1896, athletes have redefined limits in pursuit of the Olympic ideal: "Faster, higher, stronger." Through a combination of training, better regimen ...

Since the advent of the modern-day Olympics in 1896, athletes have redefined limits in pursuit of the Olympic ideal: "Faster, higher, stronger." Through a combination of training, better regimen ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th ...

Although much has changed since the first modern-day Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, one thing that has remained constant is an athlete’s pursuit for the medals table in the name of ...

It’s much the same for graphic designer and historian Markus Osterwalder, whose decades-long obsession with the Olympics is culminating ... design history in the modern era, from the inaugural ...