Now a popular visitor attraction, the Panathenaic Stadium is an ancient venue and the place where the organisers of the Olympic Games welcome the Olympic flame. The venue for the Opening and Closing ...
ATHENS, March 15: The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games flame handover in Athens next week will be done in an empty stadium amid the coronavirus outbreak, Greece’s Olympic Committee said on Sunday. Olympics - ...
The race followed a 25-mile (40-kilometre) route from Marathon Bridge to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens and was fittingly won by the Greek runner Spyridon Louis in a time of 2:58.50. His success on ...