In less than three years, the Olympics are coming to Oklahoma City. The competition schedule release not only made it real but also promises max exposure.

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

With exactly three years to go for the 2028 edition of the Summer Olympics, the organisers of the Los Angeles Games on Monday ...

Dignity Health Sports Park and South Bay Sports Park on the campus of Cal State Dominguez Hills will host multiple events ...

An international celebration of the origins of the modern Olympic games, International Olympic Day is observed on June 23 ...

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

In the late 19th century, the Olympics were still seen as a decidedly Greek event, though the Greeks’ sense of proprietorship would be challenged decades later, when the games took off as a ...

It was April 6, 1896, the inauguration of the modern Olympic Games. The hop, skip and jump (now known as the “triple jump”) was the first medal event on opening day. Connolly’s turn came last.

Pierre de Coubertin, a French teacher and historian, led the movement to create the International Olympic Committee (IOC) which eventually developed the first modern games in 1896, with Panathenaic… ...

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 ...

When the modern Olympics were first organized in 1896, they were held in Athens, Greece as a way to link the traditions of the ancient Olympics to the modern Olympic Games.

It may come as no surprise that the first modern Olympics were a men-only affair. The second, in Paris in 1900, included 22 women, and from then on, every Olympic Games has wrestled with whether ...