Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance from ... After reading this inspirational poem, Michel Bréal, a member of the organizing committee for the first Olympics, proposed ...

A massive evangelistic effort of Youth with A Mission (YWAM) during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece ... his historic mission trips to the ancient cities Thessalonica and Corinth. Out of 10.5 ...

Episkyros was a football game played in ancient Greece between two teams of usually twelve to fourteen ... chose to have the Euro taking place during the same year as the Olympics.

Today the perilous state of the environment is often in the news. Many stories describe how Earth is being damaged by human beings and discuss ways to prevent this. These concerns are not new.

These concerns are not new. Millennia ago, people in ancient Greece and Rome already knew humans were damaging the natural world. Literature from these ancient times contains many references to ...

It has been an Olympic event since the Greek Games in 688 B.C. and a staple of the modern Summer Olympics for 120 years, and mastering it doesn’t call for a prep school education or helicopter ...

The ancient Olympic Games, which began almost 2,800 years ago in the town of Olympia, were the oldest and largest of the four PanHellenic Games, which were separate sports festivals held in ancient ...

A bridge to the spirit of the Ancient Olympic Games that ... heart of the father of the modern Olympics. While the rest of De Coubertin rests in Switzerland, the IOC founder insisted his heart be ...

As the devastating fires in the Greek capital Athens are finally brought under control, yet another wildfire is endangering the ancient village of Olympia on the Peloponnese peninsula. The Greek ...

ATHENS--Greece's Olympic Committee said ... There was a time, when, you know, in the ancient days, all wars would stop for the Olympics," Zane told Reuters. "It feels like we're at war ...

The Secretary General of the Organising Committee of the Games of the XI Olympiad, Diem drew inspiration for his idea from the torch races of Ancient Greece. It is a decision that has since become ...