Curiosity corner: The Olympic Games began in which country?

The Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, a holy site dedicated to Zeus. These early ...
The Atlantic

A Skeptic Attends the First Modern Olympics

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 ...
Reuters

Olympics-Ten years on, Athens 2004 gives Greece little to cheer

ATHENS, Aug 7 (Reuters) - It was billed as a chance to transform Greece's image abroad and boost growth but 10 years after the country hosted the world's greatest sporting extravaganza there is little ...
The Atlantic

The Modern Olympics Invented the Marathon

The Paris Olympics’ picturesque marathon course will take runners past many of the city’s highlights—the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre’s glass pyramid, the Eiffel Tower. But it will miss, by miles, ...