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.

And in the Beijing Games in 2022 Norway (with 99 athletes) was tops in medals, yet again beating the USA (with 223 athletes) ...

His big breakthrough came just two years later. At the 1978 Gateshead Games, Wells equalled Peter Radford’s 20-year-old ...

Widespread damage from wildfires has prompted calls for L.A. to drop its plans to host the World Cup, Super Bowl and Olympics ...

The French mint is replacing a number of medals from the 2024 Paris Games and Paralympics after athletes complained that they ...

Some of the medals that were won by athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics were beginning to deteriorate just months after ...

A survivor event from the first Olympic Winter Games back in 1924, cross-country skiing has a rich history ... specifics of one of the most gruelling endurance events in the Games (summer or winter).

Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger has died following an avalanche in Switzerland, the country's skiing federation has said. Hediger, 26 and a member of Switzerland's snowboard cross team at the ...

in 1924, 1928, and 1932, the Games were open to anyone with connections to Ireland, not just Irish people, in the hope that they would one day rival the Olympics. With the violence of the Civil ...