Ancient Greek pottery is my favorite because it depicted everything. But then...we stopped. It's a shame because a lot has happened since this art style peaked. So here are 16 ancient Greek vases ...

Seventy-two athletes (36 men, 36 women) will compete in the men's and women's individual event competitions, respectively, with no more than two athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC).

Modern Pentathlon returns to Athens for the Olympics after a gap of 2712 years. Andrey Moiseev of Russia takes the men’s Olympic title in Athens, with women’s gold going to Zsuzsanna Voros of Hungary.

The modern Olympic Games have been around for more than ... But what about the places that have hosted these events? More than 800 Olympic venues have been built for the Olympic and Paralympic ...

while pentathlon is an entirely-different Olympic sport: modern pentathlon. The decathlon, a men's event, features ten distinct events all within track and field (a combination of running, jumping and ...

Despite this, it remains one of the more unusual events in Olympic history ... were a part of the modern Games." Justin Klawans has worked as a staff writer at The Week since 2022.

That philosophy was a driving force at the 1912 Stockholm Games, where organizers introduced five arts competitions as ...

A new competition resembling the Olympics is set to be established, but it will allow athletes to use all banned substances ...

A Polish coach's strategy to make Mexicans competitive against Europeans at the 1968 Olympics changed Mexico racewalking ...

11, approximately 10,500 athletes are competing in 329 events. And with 1,000 medals ... In the history of the modern Olympic Games, no other country is even close to Team USA’s total medal ...

In modern athletics, the ten events are: 100 metres, 400 metres, 1500 metres, 110 metre hurdles, long jump, high jump, pole vault, discus throw, javelin throw and shot put. The Olympic decathlon ...