Click on the links below to go to a specific summer Olympics: Athens 1896 | Paris 1900 | St Louis ... Badminton and women’s judo were introduced, baseball was made a medal-winning sport and ...

While Olympic baseball is mostly an afterthought in the United States, fans in Japan expected the home country to win the gold medal. They delivered.

with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900. Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance ...

In fact, Olympian Jim Thorpe once had his Olympic medals stripped for accepting money to play semi-professional baseball in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Rowing made its Olympic debut at the 1900 Paris Games. The sport was actually on the program at the 1896 Olympics in Athens but was canceled due to bad weather. Until 1976, there was only a men's ...

(Silver medals are a little more tricky: U.S. sports culture holds a respectful place for NFL teams that reach the Super Bowl or baseball teams that reach ... In the first two modern Olympics, 1896 ...

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 ...