Six new events were added Wednesday to the Olympic swimming programme, with 50m backstroke, butterfly and breaststroke to be ...

Their inclusion for Los Angeles brings the swimming gold medal count to 41 from ... only four sports contested at every Olympics since the first Games in 1896, alongside athletics, artistic ...

On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium.

History and Stars of the World’s Greatest Sporting Event from Athens 1896 to Paris ... to have won the Olympic high jump and long jump, and Ray Ewry (US), who won 8 gold medals – they include ...

Adam Peaty announced Wednesday he intends to compete at a fourth Olympics after six new swimming events were added to the ...

Former Zimbabwe swimmer and Olympic Gold medallist Kirsty Coventry has stunned ... Pierre de Coubertin was appointed as the first in 1896. “The young girl who first started swimming in Zimbabwe ...

A first-place silver medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold for $180,111 when it was put up for auction in 2021 and a gold medal from the 2010 Winter Olympics in ...