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 ...

The quadrennial celebration of Olympic athletes dates back to 776 B.C. in Olympia, Greece. (Heck of a long time ago.) The modern-day version was first held in Athens, Greece, from April 6-15, 1896.

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. Louis's grandson, also called ...

Just over two months away from Milano Cortina 2026, the torch was officially relayed to the host nation in an Athens ceremony ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The silver cup given to the marathon winner at the first modern Olympic Games staged in Athens in 1896 sold for 541,250 pounds ($860,000) in London on Wednesday, breaking the ...