Stockholm 1912: the first Olympics poster The 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm had the first ... the image depicts a Greek athlete sent to announce the Olympiad, and to request the end of ...

Whatever the precise origin of the games, they became a central aspect of Greek culture very early on and in many ways were the most important factor uniting the Greeks, except for their language ...

The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption ...

London Olympic Games Poster, 1948. The official 1948 Olympic Games poster, when the Games were last hosted in London. Sebastian Coe, 1980. Former athlete and now head of the London 2012 committee ...