A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis has been sold at auction for $545,371 as part of a larger collection of ...

There were no women athletes at the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896, because its founder, Pierre de Coubertin, thought women were "not cut out to sustain certain shocks". More than 100 years ...

Paris (AFP) – The biggest sporting event of 2024 was without doubt the Parisian high-wire double-act of the Olympic Games followed ... in the closest finish in modern history -- just five ...

It also gives us some of the most controversial moments in Summer Olympics history. The first modern games of the Summer Olympics took place in Athens, Greece in 1896, and are held to honor the ...

These interests led him to revive the ancient Olympic Games and in Athens in 1896, the first modern Olympic Games were held.

Celebrating a hole-in-one is an occasion in itself, with group hugs and awkward dancing typically following — just look at the scenes that followed Charlie Woods’ first tournament ace at the PNC ...

In recent Olympiads, pin trading has become something of an unofficial sport at the Games. The tradition, which dates back to the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 when athletes wore cardboard badges ...

Otherwise, the IOC announced karate will be making its first ever appearance in 2020 ... with the opening ceremony on July 24. Japan has a proud modern Olympics history, dating back to its successful ...

Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon teamed up in Paris ("Team Cook ‘N Bacon") in synchronized diving to win America’s first medal of ...

Nearly all of the new film “September 5” takes place in the darkened, smokey control room from which ABC Sports broadcast the hostage crisis of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich ...