Co-organized by the Greek embassy in China and the Beijing Olympic City Development Association, the exhibition, traces over ...

Venice is preparing for next week's celebrity wedding of U.S. tech-tycoon Jeff Bezos and Laura Sanchez. Putin says he does ...

The opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium of Athens. Public Domain. On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium, ...

T he Olympic Games as we know it today, dates back to Athens 1896. However, ancient Greece had its own set of religious ...

Going forward, just five per cent of the venues at Paris 2024 will be new, and this figure will fall to zero for Los Angeles 2028. Of the 25 venues reused for Tokyo 2020, five were used at Tokyo’s ...

People watch the official ceremony of the flame lighting for the Paris Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia site, Greece, on April 16, 2024. Officials in Ancient Olympia are protesting the decision to ...

Located some 290 kilometers (180 miles) southwest of Athens, Ancient Olympia is the birthplace of the Olympic Games and the site where the Olympic flame lighting ceremony is held every two years ...

After the Olympic flag was passed to Los Angeles at last night's Paris 2024 closing ceremony, we conclude our Olympic Impact series with a look ahead to the venues set to host the next games in 2028.

Los Angeles is set to host the next Summer Olympics in 2028 and has already pledged to be the first Olympic Games in modern history to forgo building any permanent venues.

The centre was a boisterous venue during the 2004 Olympics, accommodating almost 10,000 spectators. Getty Images The Faliro Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre looms in Athens as a downtrodden white ...

The graphic shows the ancient hippodrome, a U-shape stadium structure used for hosting chariot races in Ancient Olympics. It is believed that the terraces could accommodate more than 30,000 spectators ...