The silver medal was made for the first modern Olympic Games, which were held in Athens in the summer of 1896. At the time, winners in each sport were awarded silver medals instead of the shiny ...

Medals were given out at the very first games in Athens, Greece in 1896. However, gold medals were not awarded at these ...

A medal from the first modern Olympic Games held in at the 1896 Athens is expected to sell for around $30,000 at an upcoming auction in September. Ben Jones, from Mullock’s Auctioneers ...

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 ...

RIO 2016: The design for the current Summer Olympics once again features Nike on the obverse, and the reverse depicts the emblem of the games along with a subtle, stylized? laurel wreathe.

Games legacy almost non-existant with stadiums falling into disrepair Athens ... nine gold medals in 2004, their best performance - at the time - for several decades The Athens Olympics were ...

The sport was actually on the program at the 1896 Olympics in Athens but was canceled due to bad weather ... U.S. rowers have earned 89 rowing medals since the 1900 Olympic Games, the most of any ...

In one of the biggest upsets in Olympic cycling history, Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria won the women's road race Sunday afternoon in Japan to capture her nation's first Olympic medal since the inaugural ...

Two weightlifting events are contested at the first Olympic Games of the modern era in Athens in 1896 - the men's one ... China topped the medals table for a second successive Olympics.

The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was a multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece, from 6 to 15 April 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games ...

There were no women athletes at the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896, because its founder ... by wrestling and fencing in Athens. Women boxed in 2012, in London, for the first time, and ...

They said these Olympic Games would be a disaster ... they prepared to come home for the first time since 1896, the preparations of the Athens organisers had been so criticised there had even ...