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Here's What 16 Modern Olympic Events Would Look Like If They Were Depicted On Ancient Greek PotteryAncient Greek pottery is my favorite because it depicted everything. But then...we stopped. It's a shame because a lot has happened since this art style peaked. So here are 16 ancient Greek vases ...
The modern Olympics were the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Hellenophile French educator and historian with a strong belief in the power of sport to form character and to promote peace ...
An MP has joined a bid to save the Much Wenlock Olympic Games after the future of the sporting event that inspired the modern ...
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Poetry Was an Official Olympic Event for Nearly 40 Years. What Happened?Thousands of years later, this image appealed to Pierre de Coubertin, a French baron best known as the founder of the modern ...
Modern pentathlon was created by the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin as an homage to the duties required of a solider in the late 19th century to test the strengths of the ...
It had nothing to do with any of the breakdancer’s performances. The modern Olympic Games have always been about trying new events. Some stay, but many do not last. In 1932 in Lake Placid New ...
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 ...
There were no women athletes at the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896, because its founder, Pierre de Coubertin, thought women were "not cut out to sustain certain shocks". More than 100 years ...
Liu was given a no-fault violation. Performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) and doping have been around since the dawn of the modern Olympic Games in 1896. In 1904 Thomas Hicks won the Olympic marathon ...
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, widely credited as the founder of the modern Olympics, spent two years lobbying for the new Games to include a modern version of the pentathlon event that was a key ...
John Helmick, the treasurer of the governing body of modern pentathlon, is facing a disciplinary investigation for "alleged credentials irregularities" and has left the Olympic Games in Paris.
The sport of modern pentathlon was dominated by Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics. In the women’s event, Kate French reigned supreme, securing Great Britain’s first modern pentathlon Olympic medal ...
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