The Amsterdam Olympic Stadium, for whose design Jan Wils won the gold medal/Image: Dutch Institute of Military History at Wikimedia Commons Jean Jacoby was a Luxembourgish painter; Alex Diggelmann, a ...

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo will play for the Greek national team this summer – beginning with an Olympic qualifying tournament in Greece from July 2-7. It is an expected decision ...

For nearly 1,000 years, the Greek games featured ... of these "other" summer games is to promote broad aspects of Gallic culture, but also to revive the little-known Olympic tradition of including ...

The first Olympic Games were held in the summer of 776 B.C. in Greece as a celebration in honor of Zeus, the father and king of the gods and goddesses in Greek mythology. The festival and games ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Paris Oympics flame was formally handed to French organizers on Friday in the all-marble stadium where the first modern Games were held in Athens in 1896. Greek water ...

recognised it as the official anthem of the Olympic Games. Since then, the song of Greek origin has been sung at every edition. It’s also worth noting that although the anthem officially only ...

According to the Olympics, the mysterious gift is an official poster for the Games. This summer, medal-winning athletes will be presented with a poster alongside a bronze, silver or gold medal.

As Coubertin wrote in an obituary to Brookes, “If the Olympic Games that Modern Greece has not yet been able to revive still survives today, it is due, not to a Greek, but to Dr William Penny ...

that the spiritual message of the Games was always alive," he says. "If we read the Olympic Odes of the ancient Greek poet Pindar, they talk about the importance of solidarity, common purpose ...