The modern Olympics were the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Hellenophile French educator and historian with a strong belief in the power of sport to form character and to promote peace ...

The horse issues have plagued the event in the last two Olympics, which caused the governing body (UIPM) of the sport, after pressure from the IOC, to replace the discipline after the Paris Games. In ...

Coubertin, seeking to increase sports education in France, presented his proposal to re-establish the Olympics in 1892. It ...

China's first Olympic participation came in 1932 in Los Angeles. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 ...

The sport continues to tinker with its format and presentation in an effort to make the pentathlon truly "modern." To that end, organizers transformed the field space at Tokyo Stadium into a ...

The first competition in the first modern Olympics in 1896 was the 100-meter dash, with American Thomas Burke winning gold in a time of 12 seconds. More than a century later, the 100 meters ...

The future of an athletics event which inspired the birth of the modern Olympics is in doubt, because of the state of the running track. Baron Pierre de Coubertin to set up the International ...

Olympic Games Poster, Antwerp 1920. Olimpic Games Poster. Poster has helped the look and feel of ... [+] Games.. (Photo By: Fireshot/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The VII modern Olympic ...

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, widely credited as the founder of the modern Olympics, spent two years lobbying for the new Games to include a modern version of the pentathlon event that was a key ...

So when the event was re-introduced into the modern Olympics in 1912 — this time as modern pentathlon and consisting of fencing, swimming, shooting, running, and equestrian show jumping — it ...

John Helmick, the treasurer of the governing body of modern pentathlon, is facing a disciplinary investigation for "alleged credentials irregularities" and has left the Olympic Games in Paris.

PARIS (Reuters) - Modern Pentathlon's decision to replace horses with obstacle courses after the Paris Olympics bodes well for the long term future, the head of the governing UIPM said on Wednesday.