With the torch still making its rounds through London, the opening ceremony scheduled for Friday, and athletes and fans still arriving in the city, you may be forgiven for thinking that the London ...

Athens: The site of the first modern Olympics in 1896. Curling: A competition typically held during the Winter Olympics where contestants launch a 40-plus-pound granite stone down a sheet of ice at a ...

(CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Summer Olympics, which are typically held every four years. The 2024 Olympic Games were held July 26-August 11 in Paris. The 2028 Olympic Games ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th president overall of the organization that was founded in 1894. IOC members ...

Tokyo is the most gender-equal Olympics in the games' history, organizers said. At the first modern Olympic Games, held in 1896 in Athens, there wasn't a single female competitor. When the 2020 Games ...

This Nov. 2024 image provided by RR Auction shows a rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics at the intake office of RR Auction, in Amherst, N.H. (RR Auction via AP) BOSTON (AP) — A gold medal awarded ...