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This particular revival of the games – which started about 300 years ago – was all about wordplay and battles of wit.
The Paris games are shaping up as the greenest games yet. But some critics say even more needs to be done.
Between hammers in trees, uneven fields, audience members joining teams and post-humous recognition for winners, the 1900 Paris games left much to be desired. Luckily, 1924 made up for it.
As the world’s attention turns to Paris, the French capital is under its strongest-ever security regime ahead of the Olympics.
Kenya must keep adapting its development programmes - and move beyond just high altitude running academies.
Since July 2020, the Olympic Charter prohibits “any kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda”. But what if the Olympic project was in its essence political?
Many sports fans will suffer sleep deprivation as they stay up to watch the Olympics but there are ways to minimise it and bounce back after the closing ceremony.
These uniforms are for the athletes to perform their best, be proud of their national outfits and feel they genuinely represent them.
The 2024 Summer Games are going all in on renewable energy, recycled materials and more to shrink their carbon footprint. They’re a test bed for how big events can do better for the environment.
The modern Olympics were designed for men, and have gone to great lengths to exclude female athletes.
At the first modern Olympics in 1896, in Athens, each country’s athletes simply entered the stadium to hear speeches and a specially composed hymn – though more than 50,000 spectators still attended.
Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have made big and bold green promises. Are they up to the heavy carbon lifting?
The rugby sevens bring a festival air to the Olympic Games, but the competition is deadly serious. Here are the likely contenders in Paris.
Today’s Olympics are vastly different to those that began in ancient Greece. So what was it like attending those ancient games?
While transgender people have gained some recognition and human rights in the past decade, a well-financed reactionary movement is rolling them back.
Using data from every Olympics, we’ve charted which sports have stood the test of time, the changing age of athletes – and whether hosting really gives your team an advantage.
Hosting the Olympic surfing half a world away from the host city of Paris has highlighted just how hard it is for mega-events to be truly environmentally sustainable.
AI is finding applications across sport, from talent spotting and training to gymnastics judging and injury rehab.
Jan Mashiani and Len Tau apparently found themselves in the US in 1904 as part of a world’s fair displaying ‘savages’.
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