The modern-day Olympics started in 1896, with the first Games being held in Athens, Greece. The Games have since been held every four years, replicating the ancient Games, which were held every ...

When did the modern Olympic Games start? The first modern Olympics was held in 1896 in Athens, Greece. Like the ancient games, the first modern Games featured a field of all male competitors.

The word "Olympics'' started to be used again for sporting events ... began in 1850. The modern Olympics were the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Hellenophile French educator and ...

In 1896, a curmudgeonly classics scholar covered the first modern Olympics in Athens for The ... a sanctuary site dedicated to Zeus. To mark the start of the games, ancient Greeks offered ...

The sport of modern pentathlon was dominated by Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics. In the women’s event, Kate French reigned supreme, securing Great Britain’s first modern pentathlon Olympic medal ...

The modern pentathlon got its start in 1912, when Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, proposed to bring back the pentathlon, a competition featured in the Olympics ...

Savner will compete for the U.S. in the modern pentathlon, started in the late 1800s by the founder of the modern Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. The event was steeped in military tradition.