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 ...

Olympic Games list Athens 1896 - where it all began 1,500 years after the end of the ancient Olympics, the modern Olympic Games we know and love today were born. It was organised by the ...

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 ...

The very first Olympics of the modern era took place in Athens in 1896. By modern standards ... person to win an individual Olympic gold medal. Costing over £30bn, the Sochi Winter Olympics ...

Ever since the first modern Summer Olympic games took place in 1896, the United States has dominated the rest of the world. The country has won 2,655 total medals. 1,070 of those were gold.

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 ...

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 ...

With four gold medals each, Cuba's Mijain Lopez (2008-2020) and Japan's Kaori Icho (2004-2016) are currently the most successful Olympic wrestlers of all time. In 2016, Icho became the first ... When ...