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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So why are professional athletes now allowed to compete ... It's a far cry from 1896 when the modern-day Olympics began. Take ...

The athletes from that country specialized in various events ... Ever since the first modern Summer Olympic games took place ...

The summer Olympics of 1896 in Athens saw the revival of the games and Spyridon ... Later on, as the King was so delighted by ...

Athletes sprint down tracks, swimmers dive backwards into pools and divers are caught mid-air. René Burri, a Swiss photographer, captured a man shooting off a pistol in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. In ...

For many, many decades, women athletes were marginalized ... if we look at the history of the modern Olympic Games, the first game was held in 1896 and the founder at that time espoused really ...

Athens 1896, International Olympic Committee (IOC) founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin barred women from competing. In Paris four years later, 22 female athletes were invited in five ladies sports ...

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 ...