The Baron de Berenger held an Olympic Festival at Chelsea Stadium in London in 1832 ... the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance ...

The Panathenaic Stadium held the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, and it was built on the ... it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred ...

A report by the International Olympic Committee in 2022 found that 85% of venues, stadiums and structures (from the 1896 Games in Athens through ... the softball stadium at the Helliniko Olympic ...

A medal from the first modern Olympic Games held in at the 1896 Athens is expected to sell for around $30,000 at an upcoming auction in September. Ben Jones, from Mullock’s Auctioneers ...

The Panathenaic Stadium became the first modern Olympic venue in the world, when it hosted the summer Games in 1896. The only stadium in the world to be completely made of marble, it can seat as ...

The very first Olympics of the modern era took place in Athens in 1896. By modern standards ... while fighter jets traced the Olympic Rings in smoke above the stadium. But perhaps the most ...

Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the flame through 41 Greek towns to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. From Athens, the torch boarded the “Belem,” a three-masted ship that dates back to 1896, the ...