Air travel accidents in sports are rare, but they have had devastating impacts on national programs, amateur teams and ...

Two time Olympic bronze medallist 51-year-old Makarov Sergey Aleksandrovich will be foreign javelin coach for Indian javelin ...

Two-time Olympic bronze medallist Makarov Sergey Aleksandrovich has been appointed as the Indian javelin throw coach, the ...

The Charles F. Kettering Foundation recently tapped a Dayton native –and renowned Olympic medalist– to join its board of ...

On March 14, 1980 the U.S. amateur boxing team was flying from New York to Poland for international events ahead of the 1980 Moscow Olympics when their plane crashed near Warsaw. All 87 on board were ...

India couldn't even open its medal tally in LA Olympics in '84. The 1980 Summer Olympics were held in the Soviet Union's capital city of Moscow and were officially known as XXII Olympiad. The Moscow ...

Oscar Jenkins, a 32-year-old teacher from Melbourne, had travelled to Ukraine and was serving alongside its army when he was captured by Russian soldiers in late 2024.

A new school textbook in Russia is teaching children that Moscow was “forced” to invade Ukraine as it likens the conflict to the Soviet Union’s battle against Nazi Germany in World War II.

MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A passenger flight operated by the Russian airline Pobeda, en route from Dubai to Moscow, safely landed in Astrakhan, a city in southern Russia, after issuing a distress ...

Chosen as Canada’s Opening Ceremony flag bearer, Baumann won his first Olympic gold medal in the 400m individual medley in world record time. Post-race, he was in the middle of his third beer in ...