When, in Athens on 6 April 1896, the US athlete James Connolly won the triple jump event at the inaugural Olympic Games of the modern era, he became the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years ...

Seven competition venues were used at the Olympic Games Athens 1896, five of which remain in use today: Panathenaic Stadium (athletics, artistic gymnastics, weightlifting), Athens Lawn Tennis Club ...

A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil has sold at auction for over half a million dollars.

“Currently the full focus must be on the fight against the fires and the protection of the people and property. We have also ...

Gary Hall Jr. lost almost everything that he owned in the ongoing Los Angeles-area fires. “I started feeling the embers ...

Wildfires are raging across Southern California and are causing many residents to face devastating losses, including Olympic ...

Unlike Olympic medals these days which are mostly made of silver with gold plating, these were smaller and made entirely of ...

When he’s not training, the Olympian and soon-to-be Harvard graduate keeps busy by reading philosophy and bike commuting.

Nataliia Dobrynska won the 2008 Olympic heptathlon title, proudly wearing the Ukrainian leotard and spikes she has generously ...

It was on this day in 1973 that the death of his son, Alexander, led Aristotle Onassis to his tragic downfall less that two years later.