In ancient Greece, women caught attending the original Olympic Games could face the death penalty. In the Victorian era, it was believed women who exercised would injure their reproductive organs ...

The first recorded victor at the Olympics ... ancient games each time they were held, although some modern scholars think the number could have been as high as 50,000 in some years. The Greek ...

A very different kind of Olympics is underway in Rio de Janeiro to honour the original games in Ancient Greece - where all ... and boobs bounce as the women run the 100 metre race.

The Olympic Games began ... in south west 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 ...

while the artistic show paid tribute to influential women in French history. When the ancient Greek Olympics concept was revived by French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin in the late 19th century ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece ... Her victories have inspired women all over Greece to start taking part in the horse events.