Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the French aristocrat who revived the Olympics, insisted that only athletes driven by a pure love of sport were worthy of entering an Olympic stadium. As international ...

The Panathenaic Stadium became the first modern Olympic venue in the world, when it hosted the summer Games in 1896. The only stadium in the world to be completely made of marble, it can seat as ...

The very first Olympics of the modern era took place in Athens in 1896. By modern standards ... while fighter jets traced the Olympic Rings in smoke above the stadium. But perhaps the most ...