1896 (March 24 on the Greek calendar). The honour of being the first Olympic champion of the modern era fell to James Connolly, an American who won the triple jump, justifying his decision to drop ...

A medal from the first modern Olympic Games held in at the 1896 Athens is expected to sell ... duel for the end of the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era. Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre ...

IShowSpeed, 20, has set a 100-meter track record with a time of 10.5 seconds, which could have earned him an Olympic Gold ...

Although much has changed since the first modern-day Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, one thing that has remained constant is an athlete’s pursuit for the medals table in the name of ...

who won medals in the Olympic Games held in 1896–2010. Medallists were compared with matched cohorts in the general population (by country, age, sex, and year of birth). Main outcome measures Relative ...

Boardsailer Lee Lai-Shan won Hong Kong's first-ever Olympic medal ... of the modern Games didn't exactly live up to the ideals of amateurism in sport set forth by Baron de Coubertin. The competition ...

The modern era of the ... International Olympic Committee (IOC) and proposed the idea of reviving the Olympic Games. The ...

and struggle on the Olympic stage since the modern Games were first organised in 1896. "When you are talking about Olympic Games, you are talking about politics, about society because sport is ...