From Athens in 1896 to Brisbane in 2032, we explored every Olympic stadium ever built for the Summer Games. These iconic ...

As the Olympics enters its final week, Usain Bolt, Simone Biles, and Michael Phelps have dominated the media coverage of the event. But what was it like to attend the Olympics before YouTube and ...

As the Tokyo Olympics get underway, take a look back at the first modern Olympic games over 100 years ago.

The first modern Olympics were not a sure success in 1896, when Greek water carrier Spyridon Louis inspired national pride and excitement by winning the marathon ...

From just 2% in 1900 to a 50-50 split in 2024, the Olympics have made remarkable strides in gender equality.

Paris hosted the Olympics for the third time in 2024. Check out which other cities have received the honor for Summer and Winter Games.

In the 1890s, the first attempt at a modern revival of the Olympics was met with skepticism. However, a Princeton professor helped convince the United States of the games’ potential and recruited four ...

Padecky: Modern Olympics, born in 1896, continue to change with the times This is the Olympics, in which great minds come together every four years to figure out how to keep people watching if ...

The Olympics returned in the late 19th century—but the practice of awarding winners with gold medals, runners-up with silver medals and third-place finishers with bronze medals didn’t begin ...

Cities that have hosted multiple Olympics have refurbished and reused venues. For example Tokyo reused 1964 venues such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Nippon Budokan Hall in 2021; the Los ...

To celebrate the history of international sports cooperation, here’s a look back at that groundbreaking event in Athens, when the modern Olympics were born.