The next closest country to the U.S. would technically be the Soviet Union with 1,204 total medals, according to Olympedia. But since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Germany is the next ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The chief of Russia's General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, has visited his troops fighting in Russia's Kursk region and awarded medals to some of them after Moscow's forces pushed ...

The U.S. leads the gold medal count for both the men (16) and women (nine). The former Soviet Union is in second place with four gold medals. Among present-day countries, Argentina (men's basketball ...

The organiser of a half-marathon has apologised and offered to replace finishers' medals after their ribbons were printed ...

The U.S. team, led by the legendary coach Herb Brooks and made up of amateur collegiate players, were the underdogs against the Soviet Union, the four-time defending gold medalist, in the medal round.

AFP PHOTO / PETER PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images) The Russian Olympic team’s spot atop the medal table raised the eyebrows of more than a few Olympic observers.

TASS/. Four Russian schoolchildren won golden medals at the 15th Romanian Master of Mathematics international Olympiad, the Russian Ministry of Education told reporters. "All four Russian ...

TOKYO, July 26. /TASS/. Athletes from Russia won five medals on the third day of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, three of them gold. As of today, the Russian national team in Tokyo, where it participates ...