Seven candidates in the IOC presidential election came to the most sacred Olympic site two days before the contest Thursday ...
The following are the presidents of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since the body was founded in 1894: 2013-2025: ...
Despite it all, the Los Angeles Marathon's Legacy Runners have stuck to their mission: finish the race. On Sunday, the group of 92 marathoners, including 10 women, marked their 40th LA Marathon, ...
The race to succeed Thomas Bach as the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reaches its climax on Thursday when the 100-plus members vote in the Greek resort of Costa ...
Denver is still the only city to reject the opportunity to host the Olympic Games. Richard "Dick" Lamm, a former governor of Colorado who later ran for the presidency of the US, admitted that the ...
With the election of Thomas Bach’s successor and the tenth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) scheduled ...
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 first edition of the modern Olympic Games was staged in Athens, Greece, in 1896, while the first winter edition was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. Since 1994, the Olympic Games have alternated ...
Evangelos Zappas was born in 1800 in Lambovo, Epirus, in a time of turbulence and change. He was a child of a Greece that was ...
In his beautifully written Olympics in Athens, 1896, Llewellyn Smith follows the fortunes of the founding father of the modern Olympics, the Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who was inspired both ...