with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900. Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance ...

As a result, no women were allowed to compete in the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. However, ...

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 ...

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Versatile in both his athletic and professional lives, Ellery Clark was a double gold medalist at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. At the Olympic revival in Athens, Clark won both the high jump ...

ATHENS, GREECE – The first Modern Olympic Games included just nine events. Winners didn’t receive three levels of medals like they do today, instead they each received an olive branch and a ...

From Athens, the torch boarded the “Belem,” a three-masted ship that dates back to 1896, the year of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens. The Belem transported the torch across the Mediterranean ...

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 ...

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 ...