Here’s what you need to know about the 2026 Winter Games and the Minnesotans who might be making their mark there. These ...

Get the latest Olympics news and features from PEOPLE.com ... s Lawyers Sue Flavor Flav Says the Highlight of His Year Was Attending the Paris Olympics: It Was ’the Greatest Thing Ever ...

From Athens, the torch boarded the “Belem,” a three-masted ship that dates back to 1896, the year of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens. The Belem transported the torch across the Mediterranean ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th ...

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from ... a French territory in Polynesia. The modern Olympic Games were brought back by Pierre de Coubertin. He was a great promoter of physical ...

And for the cities chosen every four years, how do they weigh the enormous cost of the Olympics, especially when taxpayers shoulder large swaths of the financial burden? From our morning news ...

It has been 130 years since educator Coubertin proclaimed the founding of the modern Olympics in Paris. He was inspired by the “Ancient Olympics” held in Olympia on the Peloponnese Peninsula ...

Boxing is set to be on the program for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles after years of disputes over how the sport is run. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said Monday the ...

Although much has changed since the first modern-day Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, one thing that has remained constant is an athlete’s pursuit for the medals table in the name of ...