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 ...
Seven competition venues were used at the Olympic Games Athens 1896, five of which remain in use today: Panathenaic Stadium (athletics, artistic gymnastics, weightlifting), Athens Lawn Tennis Club ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sweden’s Sara Hector speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women’s World Cup giant slalom race in ...
were at the last Olympics for Canada in Beijing with their four-person teams — now they have the opportunity to get there together. "Surreal. We put a lot into this. I'm obviously emotional ...
Born Agnes Klein in 1921 in Budapest, her career was interrupted by World War II and the cancellation of the 1940 and 1944 Olympics. Forced off her gymnastics team in 1941 because of her Jewish ...
Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "So she'd marry me." As part of a fundraiser ahead of the 1988 Olympics, people could purchase and personalize a brick to line the ground of the plaza ...
Next winter, NHL players will participate in the Olympics for the first time in 12 years when the hockey competition takes place in Milan. But there is a growing possibility that Washington ...
She should have showcased her exceptional skills at the first post-war Olympics in London in 1948, but a torn ligament prevented her from doing so. Fortunately, she recovered, and her first major ...
Keleti was one of Hungary's most successful Olympians, winning 10 medals in gymnastics across the Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956 Olympics. She claimed the floor title in the Finnish capital ...
In his beautifully written Olympics in Athens, 1896, Llewellyn Smith follows the fortunes of the founding father of the modern Olympics, the Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who was inspired both ...
With Hunt: Showdown’s recent metamorphosis into the now current generation exclusive Hunt: Showdown 1896, we’ve gotten our first properly chunky event in the form of Post Malone’s Murder Circus.