Olympic Games

A dress rehearsal of the ceremony for the lighting of the Olympic Flame was held without a hitch in Ancient Olympia on Wednesday, before an audience of roughly 3,000 people. The weather was ideal and preparations began early in the...

There will be free entrance to all monuments and archaeological sites in Greece on Monday, April 18, to mark International Day of Monuments and Sites. The measure applies to all sites and monuments except those that are normally closed...

On the occasion of the Olympic Games, this year's International Monuments and Sites Day, which is celebrated every year on April 18th, is going to be dedicated to athletic heritage. The International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and UNESCO, have set...

  Today is the 120th anniversary of the first modern Olympic games, which started in Athens, Greece in 1897. The Games were first held in Ancient Greece and were revived by baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1894. The International Olympic Committee was founded...

Retired Greek athlete Piyi Devetzi, who competed in the triple jump and long jump competition could lose her bronze and silver Olympic Games medals after failing a doping test. Segas, Greece’s track and field federation, was informed by IAAF, the...

Top refugee athletes with no home country to represent will be allowed to compete at the 2016 Rio Games, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said on Monday at the United Nations General Assembly. A resolution, which was supported by...

"An Olympic Games without founders Greece has never, ever happened – and we want to keep it that way," award-winning sports crowdfunding platform www.pledgesports.org said, urging all fans and believers of the Olympic Games movement to financially support Greece in order to be...

The Greek Ministry of Tourism has been forced to re-edit a tourism video unveiled in London this week because it contained footage of the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin under Hitler. The clip depicting the torch lighting ceremony at the...

The silver cup awarded to Spyros Louis, the first Marathon Winner at the inaugural Modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, is exhibited at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. The formal presentation of the silver cup took place on Sunday,...

An impressive sculpture, symbolizing the Olympic Games around the globe, was installed in Gaia park at the municipality of Town of Mount Royal, a region located on the border of Parc Extension. It is a sculpture by Praxitelis Tzanoulinos, crafted in Greece,...