International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, and Greece's President Constantine Tassoulas arrive at the opening ceremony of the 144th IOC session, which will elect the new IOC ...

ATHENS, Greece — Officials in Ancient Olympia are protesting the decision to hold the next International Olympic Committee session in a neighboring region of southern Greece, rather than at the ...

Kouvelos came to Annenberg Hall on Friday to give the first lecture of the Olympic Ideals Series, co-hosted by the USC Center ...

Torchbearers will begin carrying flame through Canada next week on 106-day relay Vancouver Olympics official: "It will be the longest domestic relay in Olympic history" (CNN) -- The torch for the 2010 ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they ...

Boxer Theagenes of Thasos was one of the towering sporting figures from the ancient Olympic Games who supposedly won 1,400 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Even without ...

The next time you watch the extravaganza that is the modern Olympic Games, consider this: It all started with a simple ...

The returned item was a 9 inch by 13 inch piece of limestone column from the Leonidaion, a building in Ancient Olympia, and ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — Seven candidates in the IOC presidential election came to the most sacred Olympic site on Tuesday, two days before the contest to elect a new leader. Rain at Ancient Olympia ...