As a result, the International Olympic Committee was organised, with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900. Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896 ...

It will be the ninth time the U.S. hosts the Olympic Games since they began in 1896. The Games will ... to host three separate Olympics. Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1984.

The 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris ... cricket was supposed to be the only team sport held at the very first Olympics in 1896.

During the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ... Since competing in Athens in 1896, the United States has won 2,985 total medals, with 2,655 coming in the Summer Games and 330 from the Winter Games ...

In one of the biggest upsets in Olympic cycling history, Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria won the women's road race Sunday afternoon in Japan to capture her nation's first Olympic medal since the inaugural ...

Gold, silver, and bronze medals weren't always the standard at the Olympics. The first Summer Games began in Athens, Greece in 1896, but gold medals weren't introduced until 1904 in St.