The real-life story of the Watts Junior Summer Olympics of the 1970s and early ’80s is all but lost to the average Angeleno, but not to Clarence Mackey III. The games were more than just a ...

When Paris last hosted the Olympic Games in 1924, just over 4 percent of the competitors were women. A century later, the International Olympic Committee dubbed the 2024 Games the “gender-equal ...

The ancient Olympic Games can be traced back to 776 B.C. — -- The Olympic Games that we know and celebrate today stem from events held thousands of years ago in Ancient Greece. The first recorded ...

Part of an exhibit being shown at London‘s Royal Opera House during the Olympics — called “The Olympic Journey: The Story of the Games”– is dedicated to U.S. track legend Jesse Owens. For good reason: ...

This winter’s Beijing Games marks the second time that the Chinese city has hosted the Olympics. They will also be the first city to have hosted both the Summer (2008) and Winter Olympics. Paris is ...

The Paris Olympics provided a platform for American women to shine. Team USA finished atop the Olympic medal count with 126 overall and tied China for the most golds with 40 largely thanks to the ...

Not long after the Algerian boxer at the center of a gender misconceptions controversy won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics, Donald Trump pounced on the achievement at a rally more than 7,000 miles ...