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Let the Games begin: Roy and H.G. Nelson light up the Olympic torch We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By H.G. Nelson Normal text size Advertisement The Tokyo Games will be an Olympiad like no other. For starters, there’ll be no spectators cheering on their countries from the stands. Delegations will be reduced on account of COVID-related travel restrictions. Most commentators will be thousands of miles from Tokyo when the broadcast begins on...

Let the Games begin: Roy and HG Nelson light up the Olympic torch We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Greig Pickhaver Normal text size Advertisement The Tokyo Games will be an Olympiad like no other. For starters, there’ll be no spectators cheering on their countries from the stands. Delegations will be reduced on account of COVID-related travel restrictions. Most commentators will be thousands of miles from Tokyo when the broadcast begins ...

While we wait for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games (OG) to see if Australia can win another running medal, unquestionably an immense challenge given that Australia has won few medals per decade since the golden years of the 1950s and 1960s, this article looks back at past OG to rate Australia’s top ten running performances […]

Spiridon Louis and the Breal Cup On 10 April 1896, Spiridon Louis of Greece won the first ever marathon at an Olympic Games, ancient or modern. That that race happened at all 125 years ago owes everything to a Frenchman – and his name, surprisingly, was not De Coubertin. The legend of the messenger Pheidippides’ run in 490BC from Marathon to Athens to carry the news of the Greek victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon is about as epic as they come. “Hail, we won” were said t...

Philip Barker: When the first Olympic Stadium came alive again Thursday, 8 April 2021 Just over a week ago, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach took part in a socially distanced ceremony to inaugurate the new lights at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. Bach said "Greece gave birth to the Olympic Games twice, once in Ancient Olympia and once here in 1896". "Greeks gave to humanity the gift of the Olympic Games and also the gift of democracy," he added. "With the new lig...

On this day in 1873, Olympic legend Spyridon Louis was born Search for: Spyridon Louis (Σπυρίδων Λούης) was born in the town of Marousi, north of Athens, on January 12, 1873. His father sold mineral water in Athens, at the time lacking a central water supply, and Spyridon helped him by transporting it. He was a ‘water carrier’. After Pierre de Coubertin’s decision in 1894 to revive the Olympic Games, preparations were made to organise the first modern Olympics in Athens. On...