If shooting is an Olympic sport, and if breaking was, darts should at least be considered. Yet there’s more chance of Raygun ...

While the Oscar-winning documentary One Day in September and Steven Spielberg’s Munich granted audiences a wider snapshot of ...

There were no women athletes at the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896, because its founder, Pierre de Coubertin, thought women were "not cut out to sustain certain shocks". More than 100 years ...

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The Enhanced Games are an alternative Olympics where doping will be encouraged. Chris Marshall-Bell grills the founder on the ...

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These interests led him to revive the ancient Olympic Games and in Athens in 1896, the first modern Olympic Games were held.

The RNZ Sport team looks back at some of the sporting highlights of 2024, with the Paris Olympics the centrepiece.

Joan Benoit Samuelson's victory in the marathon at the Los Angeles Games helped change the perception of women as athletes and competitors.

The first marathon race of them all was held at Athens 1896 ... His success on a fabled route helped establish the prestige of modern Olympic Games and also led to him heading up the procession of the ...

Not only is the Olympic champion golfer the youngest New Zealander to be made a Knight or Dame - she's believed to be the ...

It also gives us some of the most controversial moments in Summer Olympics history. The first modern games of the Summer Olympics took place in Athens, Greece in 1896, and are held to honor the ...