They have run through heartache and grief, battling illnesses and injuries as their bodies have aged. Some are now using ...

Denver is still the only city to reject the opportunity to host the Olympic Games. Richard "Dick" Lamm, a former governor of ...

Double Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe has said bringing the Games to Africa will be a top priority if he is elected as the next president of the Int ...

The motto for the 2008 Summer Olympics in the capital of People’s Republic of China ... been held in Greece since the inaugural Games of the modern era took place in 1896. With the reveal of the motto ...

in 1896, while the first winter edition was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. Since 1994, the Olympic Games have alternated between a summer and winter edition every two years within the four-year ...

“At the time (of the 1912 Olympic Games) it was noted that records set 16 years earlier at the 1896 Olympics nearly equalled Japan ... in the wake of the World Athletics Championships this summer, ...

Cycling has been contested in some form at every Summer Olympic Games, since the 1896 Summer Olympics with track and road cycling, with mountain bike racing entering in 1996, followed by BMX racing in ...

with the Summer and Winter Games staggered two years apart. The inaugural Olympic Games took place in ancient Greece in 776 BC. Who started the modern Olympic Games and in which year? The modern ...

NBC was previously slated to televise the Olympics in the United States through the 2032 Summer Olympics in Brisbane. The new ...

Comcast is paying $3 billion to extend its Olympics rights deal through 2036. The renewal with the International Olympic ...