FILE - This is an undated photo showing Spyridon Louis, winner of the race that would come to be known as the marathon in the first modern revival of the ancient Greek sports festival. By April 10, ...

Agones Olympic Myth and Revival is a new television documentary on the first modern Olympic Games which is to be premiered this Sunday on Greek National Television. The narrative moves across Europe ...

The Tokyo Olympics are almost a month away. Apart from London and Athens, it is one of the few cities to have the distinction of having hosted the Summer Olympics more than once. However, what is the ...

On the face of it, the programme for the first modern Olympic Games, which were declared open on this day in 1896, had a remarkably modern feel about it. All nine of the sports contested at the Games ...

The first modern Olympics opened on this day 120 years ago, an anniversary not lost on Google. The website unveiled four Google Doodle images last night in honor of the Athens 1896 Games. Those Games ...

Little could its 241 contestants have envisaged the extent of the history they were making when they gathered to mark the opening of the 1896 Olympic Games in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. Even ...

Get latest medal count of Olympic Games 1896 including India's total medal score and winners list. Track country wise gold, silver, bronze medal count at myKhel.com.

Google marked the 120th anniversary of the first modern Olympic Games on Tuesday in the only way it knows: with a doodle. Four separate drawings depict athletes competing in four separate events on ...

Sports » LONDON 2012 | July 27, 2012, Friday // 19:58 "This unequivocally proves Bulgaria's place as one of the few co-founders and participants in the restored Olympics games," the BOC said Friday.

The perfect age it took to get anywhere was one of the great barriers to international sport back in 1896. If it wasn't for the almost heroic journey undertaken by the American entrants, those ...