Davidson College Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Allison Smith examines the "distant echoes" of the original Olympic Games and how they compare to the modern global competition. The ...

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ATHENS (Reuters) - The trophy won by the marathon winner at the 1896 Olympics has gone on display for the first time in Greece, and the new owners and prime minister said they hoped it would help ...

The 1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece, the start of the modern Olympics. Reintroduced to the world at its place of origin in Athens, Greece, the modern Olympic games began in 1896 with 14 nations in ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to ...

ATHENS, March 9 (Reuters) - Greece's Olympics Museum has pledged to ensure a trophy won by Spyros Louis in the first Olympic marathon in 1896 will stay in the country. Sign up here. Louis's grandson, ...

There is actually a very close relationship between religion and sports. I have written two books about sports and faith: “Holy Goals for Body and Soul: Eight Steps to Connect Sports with God and ...