Spyros Louis, the first Marathon winner of the modern Olympics. Spyros Louis (12 January 1873 – 26 March 1940), was a Greek ...

Swimming has been part of the Olympic Summer Games program since 1896. Alongside athletics, it is one of the sports with the ...

A midweek stay in November will run less than a summer weekend, so keep that in mind when planning ... witnessed every major ...

Association football has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 and 1932. Women's football was added to the official program at the Atlanta 1996 Games.

A coalition of over 100 organizations has reported that nearly 20,000 individuals were displaced from informal housing in ...

Najlah Feanny / Getty Images The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was created in 1896 by Charles Dow and originally consisted of 12 companies: American Cotton Oil, American Sugar, American ...

The L.A. arts community is already worried about slow planning for the cultural festival accompanying the 2028 L.A. Olympics.

The 2024 Summer Games lived up to the hype. Here are key facts about athletes, events, and festivities in Paris. The Paris Olympics opening ceremony set a high bar for spectacle. What will the ...

The most successful boxing nation at the Paris Olympics has joined the new governing body that aims to keep the sport in the ...

Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral, whose historic bells were silenced following 2019’s devastating fire, will soon echo again with fresh chimes.

Medals were the top goal at the 2024 Olympics, but what else came in the winners box? Check out the full breakdown for winners at the Paris Games now. Paris, France hosted the Summer Games for the ...