A view of the ancient ruins of the Stadium at Olympia with its centerpiece 210-yard track. Roger Wood/Corbis In the hills above Olympia, I awoke before dawn, feeling bleary-eyed from the Greek ...

The stadium, also known as the Kallimarmaro, is a renowned spot that dates all the way back to 330 B.C. Coca-Cola under fire ...

The archaeological site of ancient Olympia is rich with history and littered ... The birthplace of the Olympics, with its temples and stadium, had vanished. The site remained lost until British ...

Accompanied by several other priestesses and dancers, all dressed in traditional garbs, the Olympic torch was lit and carried to the ancient stadium, where the first recorded Olympic games took place.

Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium by walking under this archway. The ancient games were also a religious festival, held in honour of Zeus, the king of the gods.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA (Greece), September 29 (Itar-Tass) -The ceremony of lighting the flame of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi started in Ancient Olympia in the west of the Greek Peloponnese ...

The Olympic Flame for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be ignited in Ancient Olympia ... 2024 Organizing Committee at the Panathinaikó Stadium on Friday, April 26 at 5:30 p.m. After delivery ...

honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, which date back to 776 BC. Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the flame through 41 Greek towns to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens.