Incoming and outgoing International Olympic Committee presidents Kirsty Coventry and Thomas Bach will salute each other in ...

The past and the future come together in Greece. The legendary venue of the Olympics opens its doors to the robotic ...

First Nations games predate the Ancient Greek Olympics by tens of thousands of years – this history should be reflected in Australia’s sports diplomacy strategy.

Dr Judith Swaddling is an Assistant Keeper in the Greek and Roman Department at the British Museum. She is author of The Ancient Olympic Games, a guide to both the games and the site of ancient ...

The Olympics, which took place every four years until at least 393 A.D., was the premier sporting, social and cultural gathering of the ancient Greeks. When did the modern Olympic Games start?

Max Miller recreated an ancient Greek dish. The recipe was straightforward, but it called for an extinct ingredient that required a substitute. Some athletes competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics ...

Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between “muscle and mind” Ellen Wexler - Assistant Editor, Humanities At the ancient Olympics in ...

Here's what you need to know about wrestling at the 2024 Paris Olympics. When did wrestling become an Olympic sport? Wrestling was part of the Ancient Greek Olympics, where competitors fought ...

Solid gold medals have not been used since 1912 at the Stockholm Olympics. Though many believe that the first Olympians competed in the nude, this isn’t entirely true. Ancient Greek legend says ...

333 BC, British Museum. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen/CC BY 2.5 Ancient Greek athletes left their mark on the original Olympic Games, with many of their accomplishments recorded by some of the greatest ...

In general, ancient Greeks considered olive trees "sacred," and they symbolized Zeus, the god of the sky and, later, the god of the Olympics, according to the Journal of Olympic History.