According to the official Olympics website, pin trading can be traced back to the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, in 1896.At the time, countries wore badges made of cardboard that ...

From chaplains to street evangelists, people are promoting faith at the Paris Olympics. advertisement. How people find religion at the Olympics.

Portrayed at the Olympics by French singer and actor Philippe Katerine, Dionysus – known to the Romans as Bacchus – has a close tie to France: In Greek mythology, he is the father of Sequana ...

Built the same year the first modern Olympics were staged in Athens, in 1896, the Belem will carry the flame for the Paris games from the Greek capital’s port of Piraeus to Marseille — a ...

After 48 years teaching classics, I can’t help but wonder what the Greeks – who invented the Games nearly 3,000 years ago, in 776 B.C. – would make of such a ghostly version of their Olympic ...

Some people slammed a tableau as mocking Christianity, but the artistic director explained the scene was inspired by the Greek god of celebration.

The flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics has been kindled at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies frustrated efforts to produce the flame in the customary fashion, … ...

Despite weather glitch, the Paris Olympics flame is lit at the Greek cradle of ancient games The flame will travel from Athens' port of Piraeus on the Belem, a French three-masted sailing ship ...

Built the same year the first modern Olympics were staged in Athens, in 1896, the Belem will carry the flame for the Paris games from the Greek capital’s port of Piraeus to Marseille — a ...

The flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics has been kindled at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies frustrated efforts to produce the flame in the customary fashion, … ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece.

The flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics has been kindled at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies frustrated efforts to produce the flame in the customary fashion ...