A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 30, 1924, Gillis Grafström of Sweden won the men’s figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics. The ...

The seven candidates for the world's most powerful job in global sport -- the presidency of the International Olympic ...

Aristides won the very first Kentucky Derby, but history also remembers the colt’s jockey: Oliver Lewis, a Black jockey from Lexington.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver floated two possible rule changes that the league office is discussing, including a plan to ...

RR Auction offered a number of items from past Olympic games during a recent sale, with a gold medal from the first Olympics ...

Iris Cummings Critchell, an aviation pioneer who was believed to be the last living Olympian from the 1936 Berlin Games, died last Friday at age 104. Her death was confirmed by the IOC and by Harvey ...

Nafplion is a small city with thousands of years of eventful history and a unique character, full of style and beauty.

Every day this month, the NHL has been rolling out a "quarter-century team" for each of its 32 franchises. The main idea is ...

At the 1956 Olympic Games, a 26-year-old Bell jumped 7.83m in challenging conditions to win by 15cm ahead of his compatriot ...

The old glory of hockey is making a comeback. Just a few days ago, our Kho Kho team won the World Cup. We also won the World ...

Sixty years on, Mills travelled to Paris in August last year to present his 1964 Olympic USA team tracksuit as a memento of ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the ...