Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th ...

The action kicks off next Tuesday with The Eternal Flame of Hope being lit in Athens, Greece, the original home of the modern Olympics held in 1896. Then on Wednesday, The Flame of Hope will ...

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

Our family travels to Athens, Greece was a patchwork of guided ... The stadium was the site of the 1896 Athens Olympics. During the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, the Panathenaic Stadium ...

Zimbabwean sports minister and former swimmer Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the first female president of the ...

To date, the IOC has had nine presidents since its foundation in 1894, including figures such as Pierre de Coubertin, who led the organisation from 1896 to ... to have Athens host the first ...

After an electoral race that began last September, when the names of the seven candidates were announced, the election of the ...

The first ever modern Olympics was held in Athens, Greece, back in 1896. It has since grown into a much sought-after event with countries clamouring to get the chance to host it. Cities such as ...

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 ...