As Australia, the United Kingdom and Lithuania join the United States’ diplomatic boycott of the upcoming winter Olympics in Beijing, we look back at the calls to boycott the 1936 Olympics, which were ...

Explore the controversy surrounding Israeli gymnasts and their visa denial for the World Artistic Gymnastics Championship in ...

The boxers that have vied for medals and glory at the 2024 Paris Olympics are hoping to build on a rich legacy that, at times, has had a little Detroit flavor. For example, Detroit natives Frank Tate ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Aug. 3, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Aug. 3, 1936, Jesse Owens of the United States won ...

The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris produced incredible feats of athleticism that we will hold in our hearts forever from American swimmer Katie Ledecky separating herself from the pack by what seemed ...

Jesse Owens is best remembered as the sprinter and long jumper who won four gold medals at the politically charged 1936 Berlin Olympics. And yet his greatest day as an athlete was May 25, 1935, when ...

BERLIN — Berlin has formally presented its bid to rehost the Olympics in the same stadium where Jesse Owens starred during the 1936 Games under the Nazis. Berlin sports minister Iris Spranger on ...

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin is making a bid to host the Olympic Games again, possibly 100 years after the city hosted the 1936 edition under the Nazis. Berlin mayor Kai Wegner is to present plans to bid for ...