The International Olympic Committee kicked of its session in Olympia, site of the ancient Games, on Tuesday that will ...

Seven candidates in the IOC presidential election came to the most sacred Olympic site two days before the contest Thursday ...

The next time you watch the extravaganza that is the modern Olympic Games, consider this: It all started with a simple ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running ... And this is the stadium where it all happens. Now these guys are just training so they’re allowed ...

Not many events in history show what the culture of ancient Greece was like as well as the Panhellenic Games do.

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium by walking under this archway.

On April 16, a group gathered in Olympia, Greece, the birthplace ... the Olympic torch was lit and carried to the ancient stadium, where the first recorded Olympic games took place.

Delivering a message of “Values first”, IOC President Thomas Bach opened the 144th IOC Session this afternoon in the ...

honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, which date back to 776 BC. Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the flame through 41 Greek towns to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens.

The International Olympic Committee kicked of its session in Olympia, site of the ancient Games, on Tuesday that will ...

Olympics-IOC Session Opens in Ancient Olympia as Presidential Election Looms ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (Reuters ... in his speech at the Olympic academy near the ancient stadium, made only ...