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 ...

Irish man Jack B Yeats' painting titled The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture category at the 1924 ...

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 ...

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 on Thursday as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Who has the most medals in Olympic wrestling history ... Wrestling was part of the Ancient Olympic Games in Greece, making it one of the oldest competitive sports — if not the oldest sport — in the ...

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 ...