Watching the games. The Greek writer Chariton (1st century AD) in his novel Callirhoe wrote how athletes—who had often also made a long journey to get to the games—arrived at Olympia "with an ...

The ancient Olympic Games, which began in the 8th century B.C., laid the foundation for the modern Olympic movement, which is a source of national pride for the Greeks and which includes the ...

The Olympic torch was lit in a traditional ceremony honoring the Olympic games' roots in Ancient Olympia and will now make its way via 10,000 ... Since those games, for close to a century, ...

At the opening ceremony of the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, Juan Antonio Samaranch, then-president of the International Olympic Committee, spoke of peace. “Our message is stronger ...

The Olympic flame is to be handed over to Paris 2024 organizers in a ceremony at the all-marble Panathenaic Stadium, site of the first modern Olympic Games of 1896, on Friday next week. Nana Mouskouri ...

The Gymnasium Where Athletes Trained for the Ancient Olympic Games, Unearthed in Olympia by Guillermo Carvajal August 1, 2024 August 1, 2024. Excavation of the Olimpia gymnasium. ... This historic ...

It was built during the 4th century BC and it was the largest of its kind at the time. It could seat 50,000 spectators! The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece.

Nearly 100 days before the 2024 Paris Games open, the Olympic flame will be lit in ancient Olympia Tuesday for a torch relay stretching from the Acropolis to French Polynesia.

The ancient Olympic Games, which began in the 8th century B.C., laid the foundation for the modern Olympic movement, which is a source of national pride for the Greeks and which includes the lighti… ...