The first Olympic sailing competition was held in 1900 in Paris. (It was called "yachting" until the 2000 Sydney Games.) In the early Olympics, bigger boats were used with as many as 10-12 sailors ...

After becoming the first person to ever win an individual Olympic event five times, ... The Cuban won his first Olympic gold medal in 2008, ... Lopez made his Olympic debut in 2004 in Athens ...

The first modern Olympic games took place in Athens sixty years ago in a stadium holding seventy-five thousand. The American hurdler Thomas P. Curtis won the Gold Medal in his event; he also found ...

The first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens in 1896, ... Running is also the oldest Olympic event. The very first Games, in 776 B.C.E., consisted of a single contest: ...

The 2024 Paris Olympics featured breaking for the first time, ... dueling — with live ammunition — was an official event at the 1906 Olympic games in Athens and a staple of the 1908 Olympic ...

In 1896, a curmudgeonly classics scholar covered the first modern Olympics in Athens for The Atlantic; the games drew around 250 athletes from 14 countries (this summer’s games include ...

To begin explaining the strange events of 1900, you have to start a few years earlier with Pierre de Coubertin, the French baron who was essentially the lifeblood of the modern Olympic movement.

Sailing has been included on the programme for every Summer Games in the modern era but was canceled in 1896 in Athens due to weather conditions. The first Olympic sailing competition was held in ...

Events like the marathon embody that: There has been a marathon at each Olympics since the first modern Games in Athens in 1896. The Paris Olympic Games are set to deliver another shake-up, however.

The Hologic WTA Tour's top players are gearing up for the Paris 2024 Olympics, where tennis will feature prominently thanks to the sport's all-star cast. Tennis was one of the nine original Olympic ...