Modern Pentathlon begins competition on Thursday at the Paris Olympics. Here's everything you need to know about the event.

The modern pentathlon differs slightly from its ancient predecessor, but the event will still be a thrilling and demanding competition at the 2024 Olympics in Paris this summer. The modern pentathlon ...

To Pierre de Coubertin, a French baron who founded the modern Olympic Games, the Olympics were all about faith. While the competitions transcended a single religious denomination, he believed they ...

Pentathlon will trade show jumping for an obstacle course in 2028, after accusations of horse mistreatment in Tokyo. Athletes aren’t thrilled. But they could have been pillow fighting. By Sarah Lyall ...

The sport of modern pentathlon, a niche outlier at the Olympics, is getting rid of its horse competitions after the Paris Games and bringing in “American Ninja Warrior”-style obstacle courses for the ...

For the racing component, athletes will ride an unfamiliar horse they were given to through a random draw 20 minutes before and will have to complete a show jump course. The swimming competition is a ...

PARIS — The sport of modern pentathlon, a niche outlier at the Olympics, is getting rid of its horse competitions after the Paris Games and bringing in “American Ninja Warrior”-style obstacle courses ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Quote card by Opinion. The Olympic games have changed. What was once simply a gauntlet of sporting ...

On the evening of May 29, 1901, Sumner Paine entered his Chestnut Street apartment in Boston’s tony Beacon Hill neighborhood and found, to his considerable consternation, that his wife, Salome, was ...