The future of an athletics event which inspired the birth of the modern Olympics is in doubt, because of the state of the running track. Baron Pierre de Coubertin to set up the International Olympic ...

The athletics track at William Brookes School should be open for clubs and athletes later this year.

The Wenlock Olympian Society (WOS) is set to remember Harold Langley, who won selection for the 1924 Paris Olympics, with the award of a special replica medal at the annual Olympian Games in Much ...

On Sunday, the sports ground at Much Wenlock's William Brookes School played host to track and field events that were the climax of the 138th Much Wenlock Olympian Games. Each year, the games play ...

MUCH WENLOCK, England (Reuters) - Swedish sports enthusiast Hakan Sawemark was planning a trip to the Shropshire town of Shrewsbury in the English midlands when he stumbled across references to the ...

The Much Wenlock Olympian Games started in 1850 as the brainchild of Dr William Penny Brookes. It is is thought to have provided the inspiration for the modern Olympics after Baron Pierre de Coubertin ...

London 2012 launched Olympic mascot Wenlock and Paralympic mascot Mandeville in London on Wednesday. London 2012 launches Olympic mascot Wenlock(L) and Paralympic mascot Mandeville on Wednesday, May ...

Wenlock’s name is inspired by the village where the Wenlock Olympian Games, which were created by William Penny Brookes, are held and were one of the inspirations that led to Baron Pierre de Coubertin ...

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