Athens olympic road race 1896

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C.3000 BCE FIST FIRST Ancient Mesopotamia develops ...

Professor Peter J Miller discusses which ancient sporting traditions have continued into our modern world and which have been lost to time

The first women’s Tour de France ran in 1955 – and then vanished. Stephanie Boland charts the long, winding road to its modern revival

QWhich country was the first to give women the right to vote? ANew Zealand was the first to enfranchise adult women when it came to voting. The landmark move was made in 1893, following attempts to ch

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