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 Olympics is a global stage where athletes can make their name, pushing them to their limits as competitors, but what’s left of its ancient spiritual roots?

An Antiques Roadshow guest was stunned at the whopping figure given to an Olympic torch he has held onto for the past 37 ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running. Jumping. Throwing. Wrestling. Boxing. Horse racing. We’ve got it all going on! Welcome to Olympia ...

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

A BBC Antiques Roadshow expert was on hand to value a guest's Olympic torch which he carried almost 40 years ago, making his childhood dreams come true.

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.

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

"If we read the Olympic Odes of the ancient Greek poet Pindar, they talk about the importance of solidarity, common purpose, of abolishing differences through the adoration of the human body ...