A gold medal from the first Olympic games held in the U.S., awarded to American athlete Frederick Schule, recently sold for a ...

It could seat 50,000 spectators! The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch ...

At the ancient Olympics in Greece ... The first major excavations at Olympia, the Greek sanctuary that hosted the ancient ...

The designer of the medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics, LVMH, has spoken out after a number of athletes handed them back.

The idea for the Olympic flame has its roots in ancient Greece, where a sacred fire was kept burning throughout the Ancient Olympics in deference to "the gods." A symbolic fire was introduced in 1928 ...

Greece charged out of the gate in Monday's final preliminary ... Filip Filipovic, a three-time Olympic medalist, had a hat trick in an otherwise balanced attack for Serbia, which finished group play ...

The Germany men's basketball team will begin the 2024 Paris Olympic knockout stages with a quarterfinals game against Greece on Tuesday.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Paris Olympics organizer Tony Estanguet was nominated Tuesday to return to the IOC as a member.