A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil has sold at auction for over half a million dollars.

A first-place silver medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold for $180,111 when it was put up ...

The banner outside Baba's camp on Sector 16's Sangam Lower Road displays his Aadhaar card, which lists his birth date as August 8, 1896. While Swami Sivananda immersed himself in yoga and ...

Seven competition venues were used at the Olympic Games Athens 1896, five of which remain in use today: Panathenaic Stadium (athletics, artistic gymnastics, weightlifting), Athens Lawn Tennis Club ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sweden’s Sara Hector speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women’s World Cup giant slalom race in ...

were at the last Olympics for Canada in Beijing with their four-person teams — now they have the opportunity to get there together. "Surreal. We put a lot into this. I'm obviously emotional ...

Born Agnes Klein in 1921 in Budapest, her career was interrupted by World War II and the cancellation of the 1940 and 1944 Olympics. Forced off her gymnastics team in 1941 because of her Jewish ...

Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "So she'd marry me." As part of a fundraiser ahead of the 1988 Olympics, people could purchase and personalize a brick to line the ground of the plaza ...