Giorgos Roubanis, Greece’s oldest living Olympic medalist, passed away Tuesday at the age of 95. He won bronze in the pole vault at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, earning Greece’s first post-war Olympic ...

It could seat 50,000 spectators! 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 ...

At the ancient Olympics in Greece ... The first major excavations at Olympia, the Greek sanctuary that hosted the ancient ...

Greek fans around the world are honouring the life of Olympic pole vaulter Giorgos Roubanis, who died on Tuesday at age 95.

John A. Martino and Michael P. O'Kane's historical novel 'Olympia and the Birth of the Olympic Games' takes readers to the dawn of an "ancient Hellenic civilisation" following the Greek Dark Ages.

He had won the bronze medal at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne in the pole vault, with a time of 4.50, after an epic ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. The Olympics stir a sense of ...

Greek actress Mary Miná was responsible for lighting the Olympic flame. Paris 2024 credit. Less than three months before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Olympic flame was ignited ...

In perhaps the quirkiest election in sports, seven officials are vying for the powerful position of president of the ...

Behind closed doors, seven candidates hoping to lead the International Olympic Committee made key pitches on Thursday to ...

The idea for the Olympic flame has its roots in ancient Greece, where a sacred fire was kept burning throughout the Ancient Olympics in deference to "the gods." A symbolic fire was introduced in 1928 ...