The modern Olympic Games is billed as the largest multi-sport event in the world, with a history dating back to 1896. Yet ...

The history of the marathon's distance is rooted in the very spirit for which the Olympics were created, and an event that ...

Setting and participants 15 174 Olympic athletes from nine country groups (United States, Germany, Nordic countries, Russia, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, and Australia and New Zealand) who ...

A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis is being auctioned off as part of a larger collection of memorabilia ...

The auction house selling the medal, RR Auction, said that the 1904 Olympics were significant for ... to the top three finalists in each event (in 1896 medals made from other metals were awarded).

On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were thrilled by ...

The most successful country in the modern Summer Olympics is the United States. Since the modern games started in 1896, the United States has brought home 2,655 Summer Olympic medals. Given how ...

A first-place silver medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold for $180,111 when it was put up for auction in 2021 and a gold medal from the 2010 Winter Olympics in ...