Return to top St Louis 1904 Just 12 countries competed in the 1904 Olympics, with US athletes accounting for 83 per cent of participants. Again, the Games were spread out over a long period - four ...

Here's what to know on the history of the Olympic orch, the Olympic flame and more heading into 2024 Paris Olympics: ...

Berlin is making a bid to host the Olympic Games again, possibly 100 years after the city hosted the 1936 edition under the ...

and it kept audiences very entertained during a section of the ceremony that paid homage to the history of France and the Olympics itself. In addition to floating down from the rafters ...

The Temple of Hera, home to the predecessor of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece.

Rockville’s Timberlawn was where Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded a summer camp for children with intellectual disabilities.

Not so Aron D’Souza, who frames the future in epic terms. Last year, at a conference in Oxford on human enhancement, he told ...

The 2018 Winter Olympics are bigger and more extreme than ... This Wall Street Journal brief history series helps explain the now, by looking back at how we got here.

The Coliseum will host the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2028 Olympic, the first venue to host the Olympics three ...

The history of the Summer Olympics does not just show us how sports have evolved over time, but also holds a mirror up to the political and social contexts of the period. In preparation for this ...