On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...

The artifact, from the first Games held in the United States, reaped the third-highest price ever fetched for an Olympic medal at auction ...

Behind closed doors at the IOC seven candidates hoping to lead the Olympic body are making key pitches to an exclusive club ...

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

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

A gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, the first ever hosted in the United States, just sold for $545,371 at ...

Five Olympic Games. History has been written and will continue ... Kontides was also honoured by the Greek Sports Writers Association (PSAT). Kontides wants to inspire future generations and ...

Five Olympic Games. History has been written and will continue ... Kontides was also honoured by the Greek Sports Writers Association (PSAT). Kontides wants to inspire future generations and ...

“At its heart the Ancient Olympic Games was a religious festival held in a religious sanctuary,” Paul Christesen, professor of Ancient Greek History at Dartmouth College, USA, explained. As Christesen ...

But he also helped secure the 2004 Olympic Games for Athens and presided over a vast program ... an “outstanding leader” who has earned a special place in the history of not only Greece, but also of ...

Next winter, NHL players will participate in the Olympics for the first time in ... who by that point might be the leading goal scorer in league history, won’t be allowed to join them.