First introduced in the Olympic Games in 648 BCE, pankration had minimal rules, allowing fighters to employ a wide array of ...

The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.

Upcoming Olympic cycles include the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games and 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games. Here's what we know so far.

Giorgos Roubanis, Greece’s oldest living Olympic medalist, passed away Tuesday at the age of 95. He won bronze in the pole vault at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, earning Greece’s first post-war Olympic ...

Nike was the Greek goddess of victory and an attendant of Zeus. While not among the 12 Olympian gods, she is described as a ...

A con artist who was able to take power by spreading misinformation his supporters adhered to even when it was clearly false.

In perhaps the quirkiest election in sports, seven officials are vying for the powerful position of president of the ...

The Ancient Olympics by Nigel Spivey (Cambridge ... For symbolic reasons, he desperately wanted Athens to be the first venue, but the Greek government, whose country's economic progress was slow and ...

Dick Button, the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist, has died at 95. He won gold in 1948 and 1952, pioneering jumps like the double axel and the triple loop. Button later became a ...

On Thursday night, Oklahoma first responders took that part literally ... to wait tables and raise funds for the Oklahoma Special Olympics. “We just want to thank the citizens for supporting ...

On Jan. 30, 1924, Gillis Grafström of Sweden won the men’s figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics. The Chamonix Olympics ... The next day, U.S. skater Charles Jewtraw claimed the ...