In July 2024, a claim circulated on X (archived), Facebook (archived) and other social media sites that the 1900 Summer Olympics included events from unusual sports including cannon shooting, ...

This was not the first time claims about unusual events at the 1900 Summer Olympics circulated online. In April 2020, the official account of the BBC television program "QI" made an X post similarly ...

The medalists in the men’s Olympic 25 kilometer cycling race stood on the podium nearly 124 years ago -- but now, the silver medal in that competition is being credited to a different country. Team GB ...

France has scored a belated surprise Olympic victory against Great Britain – 124 years later than expected – after a 1900 Paris Olympics cycling silver medal was taken away from Team GB and awarded to ...

The history of Olympic golf is at least a little bizarre even when you look at just the modern iteration—between the Zika virus that kept some top players away from Rio in 2016 (or at least gave them ...