France likes to honour its late pioneers and visionaries, but the aristocratic Frenchman who founded the modern Olympics ... give him as France hosts its first Olympics in 100 years next month ...

The country of Mexico has had a long history with the modern Olympic Games beginning with Olympiad II in Paris in 1900.

St. Louis, 1904: The hosting of the Olympic games in St. Louis, USA, marked the first time they had been held in a majority English-speaking nation, and also the first time they had been held ...

For the 2024 Paris Olympics, the modern pentathlon is getting ... Competitors accumulate points over the first three events to determine handicaps for the laser run. The competitor with the ...

In the age of social media, the Olympic Games are a fount of viral phenomena ... delivered directly to your inbox. Sign up The 27-year-old first attracted social media fame at the 2020 Tokyo ...

While Antoine Arnault of LVMH may insist that "financial benefits have never been a goal of this partnership," NBC’s ...

The first competition in the first modern Olympics in 1896 was the 100-meter ... Gatlin did at last year's world championships in Beijing. He was in the lead and had a chance to finally beat ...

Modern pentathlon events will take place at the Palace of Versailles, the iconic home to the court of Louis XIV. The first French site to be awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 1979, the gardens ...

The Paris Olympics are the first in the 128-year history of the modern Games to reach gender parity among athletes, with women’s sport also given more prime-time broadcast spots to help raise ...

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 sport of modern pentathlon was dominated by Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics. In the women’s event, Kate French reigned supreme, securing Great Britain’s first modern pentathlon Olympic medal ...

The first official modern Olympic Games dates back to ... single competing country sent a female athlete to the Olympics. That same year, the addition of women’s boxing meant that female ...