widely credited as the founder of the modern Olympics, succeeds – after two years of effort - in having a version of this ancient highlight incorporated into the new Games. Modern Pentathlon’s ...

The pentathlon was the event from which the modern Olympics derives many of its events, including the discus, javelin, long jump, running and wrestling. Aristotle said of it "a body capable of ...

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, widely credited as the founder of the modern Olympics, succeeded in having a version of the ancient Games highlight of the Pentathlon incorporated into the 1912 ...

Not many events in history show what the culture of ancient Greece was like as well as the Panhellenic Games do.

Seven candidates in the IOC presidential election came to the most sacred Olympic site two days before the contest Thursday ...

In the Ancient Olympics, the pentathlon comprised running, jumping, javelin, discus and wrestling. The founder of the Modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, introduced the modern version comprising ...

Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium ... Play the game to take part in the pentathlon and save the bronze discus from the master of thievery.

Seventy-two athletes (36 men, 36 women) will compete in the men's and women's individual event competitions, respectively, with no more than two athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC).

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece ... Strange, I know… The pentathlon is a five-event contest combining running, jumping, discus, javelin and ...

The sport of modern pentathlon was dominated by Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics. In the women’s event, Kate French reigned supreme, securing Great Britain’s first modern pentathlon Olympic medal ...