James Brendan Bennet Connolly from South Boston, USA, poses with a flag at the first modern International Summer Olympic Games held at the Panathinaiko Stadium on April 6, 1896 in Athens, Greece where ...

The Olympics bring countries together through sport. You watch top athletes compete for medals and expect fairness along with unity. History shows a different story though. Personal gain, political ...

In 1896, with the revival of the Olympic Games, James Brendan Connolly, the son of immigrants from the Aran islands, became ...

The Athens Olympics might have been the first modern Games, but it was the 1912 Olympics, held in Stockholm, Sweden, that ...

How Many Countries Have Won Medals at Each Olympic Games? At the first Modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, the only countries represented in the swimming competition were Greece, Austria, Hungary ...

Athens: The site of the first modern Olympics in 1896. Curling: A competition typically held during the Winter Olympics where contestants launch a 40-plus-pound granite stone down a sheet of ice at a ...