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The 1896 Athens Olympic Games, the first of the modern era, were a momentous occasion that revived the ancient tradition after nearly 1500 years. Spearheaded by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the ...

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

The first coverage in the Boston Herald of the modern-day Olympics held on April 6–15, 1896, in Athens, Greece. (Herald archive screenshot) ...

(The Conversation) — Pierre de Coubertin hoped to channel the best of the ancient ceremonies into a new tradition that could foster both national pride and international harmony.

A short-lived Olympic competition within gymnastics, rope climbing only made it into four Olympics (in 1896, 1904, 1924, and 1932) before getting cut down after the 1932 Games.

The 1896 Olympics were held in Athens; however, only 14 countries participated, compared to over 200 nations that take part today.

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 ...

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 ...