Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running. Jumping. Throwing. Wrestling. Boxing. Horse racing. We’ve got it all going on! Welcome to Olympia ...

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Of course, many other sports were also popular: athletics, swimming, wrestling, lifting weights and boxing were all favorites. For the ancient Greeks, the earliest mention ...

Written by Associate Professor David PritchardThe Olympic Games immediately spring to mind when people think about sport in ...

Picture yourself standing where the original Olympic Games took place ... and other relics that offer insight into the lives of the ancient Greeks. One of the museum's star attractions is the ...

Ancient Greeks believed the track ... Of the 18 core events in the Olympics program, some are familiar today—running, wrestling, boxing, javelin, discus. Others are less so.

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient ... their boxing and wrestling. The main event at the Olympics was ...

The United States leads the way with 50 gold medals, the most of any country in Olympic boxing history. The only country that comes close to that total is Cuba, which currently has 41 gold medals. How ...

Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012 is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing ...

Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies prevented the traditional ...