The artifact, from the first Games held in the United States, reaped the third-highest price ever fetched for an Olympic medal at auction ...

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

The Olympic Games can trace its history back to the days of ancient Greece. But the modern games have to do with a very ...

The history of the marathon's distance is rooted in the very spirit for which the Olympics were created, and an event that ...

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 ...

An auction firm announced on January 17 that a gold medal from the first Olympics held in the U.S. was sold at auction for over US$500,000 ...

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

Greek lawyers' associations have announced a nationwide strike for Thursday and Friday of next week, protesting draft legislation to combat gender-based violence. They argue that the bill violates ...

This marked the first Olympics where gold medals were introduced, with the U.S. dominating by winning 78 of 96 events.