Milan exhibition highlights 3,000 years of Olympic history

With just over two months to go until the start of the Winter Olympics in Italy, three thousand years of the Games’ history is on display in Milan.

Old and new have been woven together from ancient statutes to the golden running spikes Michael Johnson’s wore in the 1996 Olympics.

“It shows that all these three big civilisations [Greek, Etruscan and Roman], all brought something and they have something to bring to us, and that the…