The silver medal was made for the first modern Olympic Games, which were held in Athens in the summer of 1896. At the time, winners in each sport were awarded silver medals instead of the shiny ...

Telegraph Sport has detailed the history of the modern Summer Olympics since the Games were first held in Athens in 1896, listing all summer Olympics host cities. This year’s Olympics begin on ...

A medal from the first modern Olympic Games held in at the 1896 Athens is expected to sell for around $30,000 at an upcoming auction in September. Ben Jones, from Mullock’s Auctioneers ...

Women couldn't compete in these Olympic Games. Runners getting ready to run the 100-metre course at the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece, 1896. (public domain) ATHENS, GREECE — The ...

Although much has changed since the first modern-day Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, one thing that has remained constant is an athlete’s pursuit for the medals table in the name of ...

The very first Olympics of the modern era took place in Athens in 1896. By modern standards, the opening ceremony was a modest affair and many familiar elements of subsequent Olympics opening ...

Inspired by the ancient Greek Olympics, the modern games began in Athens in 1896. Featuring both team and individual events, each edition of the games produces iconic moments that are etched into the ...

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 ...

Basketball veteran Kim Gaucher, who played for Canada in Rio, had to fight to bring her infant daughter to the game At the first Olympic Games of the modern era, Athens 1896, International Olympic ...

My wife and I were winding through the maze-like grid of paths at the sumptuous Romanos Resort, the first of four ultra-luxury hotels to open at Costa Navarino, and this was more like a dream replete ...

Shooting has had a presence at the Olympic Games since the first modern Games in Athens in 1896, where five events were held. In Paris, the shooting program will include 15 events. The competition ...

going back to the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. British female athletes in matching uniforms, with athletes of other competing nations in the ... [+] background, during the opening ...