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 ... in 1988 events were ...

During the first Olympics, 14 nations participated ... the most successful athlete and won four events. During a meeting in Paris in June 1894, Athens was voted the most favorable location to ...

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

Events at the chaotic 1900 Paris Olympic ... were only the second modern games to be held (the first were the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens). This meant that there was very little in the way ...

In 1896, a curmudgeonly classics scholar covered the first modern Olympics in Athens for The Atlantic ... which was one of two events that Greece had pinned its hopes on. The other was discus ...

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 ...

Shooting sports debuted at the 1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece ... of the original nine disciplines at those first modern Games, included five events: 200m military rifle, 300m three-position ...