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 ...

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 ...

For the 2024 Paris Olympics, the modern pentathlon is getting, well, more modern. Rather than spreading the event across an entire week by doing one event per day, athletes are now completing all ...

The modern Olympic Games from their inception were created to bring nations together. Founder Baron de Coubertin believed sport could bring countries together through athletic competition free ...

The country of Mexico has had a long history with the modern Olympic Games beginning with Olympiad II in Paris in 1900.

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 ...

Make sure you're Olympics ready by brushing up on your history of the modern Olympic Games. Think you know the answers to these tricky Olympics history questions? Who founded the Olympic games?

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.

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 ...

Paris is the birthplace of Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937), who is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games. What began as a small event with only 240 male athletes from 14 countries has ...

Modern pentathlon events will take place at the Palace of Versailles, the iconic home to the court of Louis XIV. The first French site to be awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 1979, the gardens ...