The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was a multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece, from 6 to 15 April 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games ...

Click on the links below to go to a specific summer Olympics: Athens 1896 | Paris 1900 | St Louis ... Basketball, canoeing and field handball all appeared for the first time.

The first competition in the first modern Olympics in 1896 was the 100-meter dash ... now a track and field analyst for NBC Sports who also does some coaching. "If you have to push something ...

In seeking to host the Summer Olympics, Brazil promised “green games for a blue planet.” It pledged to clean up waterways around future Olympic sites, including a lagoon in front of the ...

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 ...

In the 1980s, European and South American teams could not field any players who had played in a World ... Men’s football has been played at every Olympics except in 1896 and 1932. Women’s soccer was ...

Day 2 of track and field at the Tokyo Olympics is Saturday in Japan ... Its opening heat was the very first event held at the inaugural 1896 Athens Games, won by American Francis Lane of Princeton ...

The Netherlands has won the gold medal in women's field hockey at the Paris Olympics by beating China 2-1 in a shootout in the final. The U.S. women's 4x100m relay team won gold, while the men's ...

When was running invented? Runing is an instinctive movement that evolved as a survival skill for early humans. Read on to ...

Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral, whose historic bells were silenced following 2019’s devastating fire, will soon echo again with ...

In the 1980s, European and South American teams could not field any players who had ... Men’s football has been played at every Olympics except in 1896 and 1932. Women’s soccer was added ...