A silver medal from the 1896 first modern Olympic Games, held in Athens, is set to make history in the auction room.

As the 2026 Winter Olympics command global attention in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, a quieter but historically charged moment is unfolding a few nations to the north. Denmark’s Bruun Rasmussen is ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Lambis Nikolaou, a former International Olympic Committee vice president who helped to organize the 2004 Athens Summer Games, has died. He was 89. Nikolaou was an IOC ...

Some Olympic venues are abandoned after the Games, but the main stadiums often get a second life as general sports arenas or ...

If the rules of ancient Greece were observed today, drone and missile fire over Ukraine would stop on Friday as guns fall ...

Many Olympic venues are left to decay after the events are over. See what these cities have done with the facilities after ...

(AP) Eight years after winning Olympic medals in Athens, four track and field athletes from eastern Europe were ordered to hand them back Wednesday because of positive doping tests. Lance Armstrong, ...

On Friday, August 13, 2004, the Summer Olympic Games are scheduled to open in Athens. After four years of construction, Greece is racing to finish preparations for the games. At a cost of $1.2 billion ...