India’s push toward winning the 2036 Olympics hosting contest seemed to stall a little on Thursday in the first big decision of Kirsty Coventry’s IOC presidency.

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 first modern Olympic Games in 1896 included men's weightlifting, but the sport didn't become a permanent fixture at the Olympics until 1920.

James Connolly won the triple jump event in 1896 to become the first gold medallist of the modern Olympics. The first Olympic champion after 1527 years.

In 1896, a curmudgeonly classics scholar covered the first modern Olympics in Athens for The Atlantic; the games drew around 250 athletes from 14 countries (this summer’s games include ...

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 ...

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 ...

The modern Olympics, however, were created in 1896, with the first edition of the Games being held in Athens.

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 ...