When I visited ancient Olympia recently for a TV show and guidebook, it was worth the four-hour drive from Athens. This sight should be a required pilgrimage for modern tourists. Olympia’s once ...

On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium.

The next time you watch the extravaganza that is the modern Olympic Games ... illustrious competition in ancient Greece remained a mystery. The birthplace of the Olympics, with its temples ...

The book contains a brief history of the ancient Olympics that was dedicated to the Greek god Zeus and the modern movement that took shape under the leadership of French historian Pierre de Coubertin.

A sacred pilgrimage to our ancient past," Bach told an audience that included IOC members and Greece's President Konstatinos ...

Olympics-IOC Session Opens in Ancient Olympia as Presidential Election ... "An homage to our modern origins and to our founder. And a manifestation of our faith in the future, when we will elect ...