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 ...

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

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

Roger Lebranchu who survived almost two years in Nazi concentration camps and was the oldest person to carry the Olympic ...

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 ...

The Greek men’s basketball team qualified for its first Olympic Games since 2008, after beating Croatia in front of a home crowd in Piraeus on Sunday. The 29-year-old, who was drafted by ...

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

An auction firm announced on January 17 that a gold medal from the first Olympics held in the US was sold at auction for over ...

"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 ...