The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium by walking under this archway.

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running ... And this is the stadium where it all happens. Now these guys are just training so they’re allowed ...

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.

Every four years, the Olympic Games ... professor of modern Greek at the University of Sydney, grew up in Olympia, where he used to play with friends among the ancient stadium ruins.

It's meant to provide an ineluctable link between the modern event and the ancient Greek original on which ... a cauldron that burns in the host Olympic stadium until the end of the games.

With certain traditional exceptions including Greece – the historical home of the ancient Olympic Games – entering ... of directly following Greece and the Olympic Refugee Team into the Tokyo Olympic ...