It has been a symbol of the Olympic Games since 1914. But do you know the history behind them? The modern Olympic Games were ...

The Olympic symbol is made up of five interlinking rings ... of fire and thus makes the link between the ancient and the modern Games”. A few months before the opening of the Games, a ...

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 ...

The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept ...