Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th ...

Brooke's goal was to create an international Olympics ... to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance, especially from the government of Greece.

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To the family’s surprise the bronze colored medallion turned out to be an Olympic medal from the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, held in Athens, Greece. The medal, which measures 2 inches ...

Nearly 20 years have passed since the Olympics returned “home” to Athens and according to France24, Greece failed to capitalize ... stadiums and structures (from the 1896 Games in Athens ...

Evangelos Zappas was born in 1800 in Lambovo, Epirus, in a time of turbulence and change. He was a child of a Greece that was ...

their best performance - at the time - for several decades The Athens Olympics were meant to be a celebration of the Games' history, as the spiritual home of Olympic sport hosted the world in the ...

ATHENS (AP) — The flame that will burn at the Paris Olympics ... Greece. Friday’s ceremony was held in the all-marble Panathenaic stadium in Athens where the first modern Games were held in 1896.

ATHENS, July 29. /TASS/. Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Ieronymos has lambasted the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris. "All this is worthy of absolute contempt," the Orthodox ...