The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?

It’s a relative of the weasel. Is it any stranger than Izzy, Gliz the ice cube or that hat from earlier Games?

Carl R. Pacifico Professor of Neuropsychology and Athletic Director Emeritus Eric Zillmer, PsyD, shared his expertise about past and present Olympics, as shaped by his mother's and sister's Olympic ...

So before we bid the Games adieu in just a few short days, let's commemorate the "Olympics" for this iteration of NPR's Word ...

Nothing compares to the Olympics when it comes to promoting the best in sports competition and peaceful international relations. The Winter Olympics kicked off this week in the mountains of northern ...

A 2,700-year-old ancient Greek helmet of the Corinthian type discovered in ancient Olympia is now a national treasure of ...

Organizers of the Milano Cortina games say that the athletes’ village is officially out of condoms according to a report by Italian newspaper La Stampa. “The supplies ran out in just three days,” an ...

From the naked competitions of Ancient Greeks in the Olympics to the unexpected uses of urine in Ancient Rome, each fact is a journey into the intriguing and often bizarre events that shaped our past.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Eileen Gu isn't trying to sound zen about all this. It just sort of comes out that way. There is something inherently dangerous about flinging yourself down the side of ...

Since 1993, the United Nations has fulfilled the ancient Greek tradition of the Olympic truce to ensure that athletes are not ...

The saying “Let the Games begin!” first applied to the Winter Olympics in 1924. That was when the first official Olympic Games took place, representing the culmination of more than three decades of ...