The modern Olympics were the brainchild ... The Olympic flame first appeared in Amsterdam in 1928, and the podium four years later. But, arguably, the Berlin Olympics in 1936, with its display ...

Pierre – known as the father of the modern Olympic Games – chose to adopt the ancient tradition of a four-year cycle, as a ...

New Jersey native George Mehnert, the gold medalist ahead of Cote, captured a second Olympic gold in Stockholm four years later. In 1904, the first modern Olympics held on U.S. soil featured seven ...

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from ... the ancient Olympic Games and in Athens in 1896, the first modern Olympic Games were held.

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 ...

Four years earlier, Law was a key member of Great ... which were introduced to the Games in 680 BC. Equestrian events in the modern Olympics were first held at the 1900 Paris Games, although it ...

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 ...

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, widely credited as the founder of the modern Olympics ... run which meant that the first runner to finish was the overall champion. Two years earlier the traditional ...