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 element of the ancient Olympics.

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 ...

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 ...

One of the key sports at the ancient Olympics, wrestling has been part ... stand for what was once the final aspect of the ancient pentathlon. Modern wrestling consists of two separate disciplines ...

Though horses have been part of the Olympic modern pentathlon since ... shooting and running — is a sport inspired by the ancient pentathlon and tests athletes in skills needed by 19th century ...

Coach Kim Raisner was prohibited from participating in any additional events following the incident A German modern pentathlon coach has been disqualified from the Tokyo Olympics after hitting a ...

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 ...

The ancient Olympics began in 776 B.C. with a single ... wrestling, boxing, a Pentathlon and a mixed martial arts forerunner called pankration. Only free Greek men were allowed to enter ...