The Pythian Games, ancient Greece's art Olympics, were a blend of athletic and cultural festivities taking place in Delphi ...

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The ancient Athenian writer Isocrates (436–338 BC) once commented: "Many cities judge those who excel in the athletic contests to be worthy of greater rewards than those who, by painstaking thought ...

The discus throw is a track and field event where athletes throw a heavy, round-shaped disc as far as possible while remaining inside a 2.5-metre diameter circle. The winner is the athlete who throws ...

According to historical sources, "women" — specifically meaning, in that time and culture, married, childbearing females — were not allowed to attend or participate in the original Olympic Games in ...

Organizers of the Ancient Olympics, the precursor of the modern Games, probably weren't as concerned with sustainability as the organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics. At least, if the ancient Greeks ...

Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between “muscle and mind” Ellen Wexler - Assistant Editor, Humanities At the ancient Olympics in Greece, ...

The men's gymnastics pommel horse has been the talk of Paris thanks to Stephen Nedoroscik, whose performance on the apparatus helped clinch bronze for Team USA in the team all-around. Like Nedoroscik, ...

PARIS — I had a little time to kill before my assignment Friday at the Olympics. Not enough that I could go see the Louvre, but enough that I wanted to check out a place I’d never heard of until I got ...

MINNEAPOLIS — When University of Minnesota history professor Dr. Andrew Gallia watches the Olympics these days, he notices some striking similarities to the ancient version of the games that began in ...

Heralds travelled to all major Greek cities around the Mediterranean to announce the dates of the Games, along with the sacred truce. Hostilities were banned during the period around the Games to ...