This stunning Greek peninsula offers stunning natural beaches, coves, charming towns, is the birthplace of the Olympic Games ...

The Olympics might be about strength, speed, and stamina—but sometimes, it's also about shots, chugs, and champagne. Behind ...

Humboldt County Special Olympian returns home after serving as a Law Enforcement Torch Run Final Leg torchbearer for the 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Europe.

Cricket is one of the five new disciplines at the next Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028. The sport is returning to the mega event after making a fleeting appearance in 1990 during the Paris ...

The 2028 Olympics will be the first to feature more women than men, the International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday after approving the medal events and athletes quota for them.

The 2028 Los Angeles Games will include the Olympic debuts of the 50m backstroke, 50m breaststroke and 50m butterfly in swimming, a mixed-gender 4x100m relay in track and field and a mixed-gender ...

But there is a first time for everything. It was 185 years ago that the first photograph of this scene was made on March 29, 1840. That Sunday at noon, with the cathedral bells ringing out ...

The opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium of Athens. Public Domain On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium, ...

There was a time when courtship hinged on chance encounters: bumping into someone at a party, noticing a cute guy in the Ussher, or asking for a number in the Pav Friday chaos. Today, those fateful ...

Continental clues: Modern continental rocks carry chemical ... Researchers have discovered that the very first crust of our planet, formed about 4.5 billion years ago, already had chemical ...

It was also on April 6, 1896, that the Olympic Games made a historic return to their birthplace in Athens, Greece, after being absent for 1,500 years. The first Modern Olympics featured only male ...

Americans won 9 out of 12 of these events. The 1896 Olympics also featured the first marathon competition, which followed the 25-mile route run by a Greek soldier who brought news of a victory over ...