Ahead of each Summer Olympics, the torch is lit in the ancient site where the games were founded, connecting the event back to its roots. The torch is carried to the host city by runners and other ...

The flame for the 2024 Paris Olympics has been lit in Olympia, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics. The flame will now begin its journey in a relay to light the cauldron that will mark the ...

Here’s a history lesson on the modern Games and their ancient origins. An exact date is unknown, but the International Olympic Committee cites 776 BC as the first recorded Olympic Games.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece.

The first country to give us this new Olympic sight was, as always, Greece. Ancient Greece originated the Olympic Games. The Paris Olympics website outlines a bit of the history: The history of ...

The truth is that while the ancient Olympics originated in Greece, its modern incarnation is very much a French affair. The Games were revived in the 1890s by a French nobleman, Baron Pierre de ...

The Games were revived from an ancient Greek spectacle, but an exhibition timed for the Paris Olympics argues that France’s fascination with the ancient world played an outsized role. By Emily ...

Its origins actually date way back to the ancient Olympics and the stables of Rome. The pommel horse descends from a wooden horse used by the Romans to teach mounting and dismounting. Pommel ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece.