The Greek sea god Poseidon is said to have sat on Mount Fengari here — at 1,664m, the second highest in the Aegean — to watch the Trojan War, while in ancient times, numerous pilgrims would ...

The IOC itself ran the boxing tournaments at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics but would not do so a third time. That left boxing on course to crash out of the Olympics once and for all, until a new ...

Although it’s not for another three years, the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics could feature the involvement of none other than Kendrick Lamar. Casey Wasserman, the rapper’s booking agent and the ...

Coe was, by a distance, the most qualified candidate, as a two-time Olympic 1500m champion who later presided over London’s spectacular 2012 Olympics. He has also led athletics, the pre-eminent ...

Athletes need immigration documents as well. “From purely an Olympics perspective we got very lucky. That’s not the most important thing,” Wasserman told the Associated Press. “What’s ...

Former Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry, 41, was today elected as the new Olympics chief, pipping Lord Sebastian Coe and Juan Antonio Samaranch to the position. The election means Ms ...

Taking to the podium after her victory was announced, Coventry spoke of her excitement at taking the role and insisted the future of the Olympics is ... south coast of the Greek mainland.

Coubertin began his 29-year term at age 33 in 1896, the year of the first modern Olympics in Athens, Greece. Thursday’s vote was held in Costa Navarino, Greece, about 60 miles south of Olympia, site ...

Boxing was included Thursday in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics program after a unanimous vote by the International Olympic Committee, ending years of doubt over the sport's Olympic future.

She will be the first woman and the first African to serve as IOC President. "I'm very proud to call myself a Zimbabwean and to have grown up there, for my mum to have been born there, my grandmother, ...