On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and Hellenistic Age ...

On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games were reborn in Athens, 1,500 years after Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned them in 393 ...

Aristotle Onassis acquired Olympic Airways from the Greek government, ushering in what would become known as the "Golden Era" ...

Torches from the Paris Olympics Games and the crown and wreath of Dionysus worn by singer Philippe Katerine during the ...

Breaking news.  WELCOME HOME ICON . . . International Olympic Committee president-elect Kirsty Coventry (centre) melts into a ...

When the world championships begin Wednesday at TD Bank Garden, home of the Bruins and Celtics, they will be hosted by the renowned Skating Club of Boston, which produced such Olympic icons as ...

Kirsty Coventry gestures as she speaks after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, From KSh 30k salary ...

A native Texan, Foreman began his boxing career as an Olympic gold medalist who inspired fear as he climbed to the peak of the heavyweight division by stopping Joe Frazier in 1973. His formidable ...

George Foreman, the two-time world heavyweight boxing champion, Olympic gold medalist, and beloved American icon, died Friday at the age of 76. His death was confirmed in a post from a verified social ...

2028 Olympic organizing committee chairman Casey Wasserman told the Associate Press on Thursday, March 20 that Lamar will ...

An ongoing row over criteria eligibility has meant that Olympic gold medallist Tom Ford has become the fourth rower to be barred from competing for Cambridge at this year's Boat Race. Ford ...