Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass holds up the Olympic flag while IOC President Thomas Bach applauds during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) The 2028 ...

The first Olympics date all the way back to the year 779 BC and were held in the city of Olympia, Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus and legend has it that his sons, Hercules and Alcmene, were ...

BOSTON — A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil was sold at auction for over half a million dollars, part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia from the Games over the decades, a ...

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 ...

The push for women's hockey's inclusion in the Olympic Games began in the 1930s by a group of Canadian athletes. It took more ...

The 2028 Olympics will be the first to feature more women than men, the International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday after approving the medal events and athletes quota for them. The IOC ...