widely credited as the founder of the modern Olympics, succeeds – after two years of effort - in having a version of this ancient highlight incorporated into the new Games. Modern Pentathlon’s ...

widely credited as the founder of the modern Olympics, spent two years lobbying for the new Games to include a modern version of the pentathlon event that was a key element of the ancient Olympics.

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece ... Strange, I know… The pentathlon is a five-event contest combining running, jumping, discus, javelin and ...

Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium ... Play the game to take part in the pentathlon and save the bronze discus from the master of thievery.

In the Ancient Olympics, the pentathlon comprised running, jumping, javelin, discus and wrestling. The founder of the Modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, introduced the modern version comprising ...

One of the key sports at the ancient Olympics, wrestling has been part ... stand for what was once the final aspect of the ancient pentathlon. Modern wrestling consists of two separate disciplines ...