Volunteer applications exceeded 160.000. • The ATHENS 2004 Olympic Torch Relay is the first to travel the globe and return to the country that gave birth to the Games. • Τhe Olympic flame has traveled ...

Kirsty Coventry, the newly elected IOC president, highlighted the significant progress in advancing equality and diversity ...

It is a new dawn and a new day at the International Olympic Committee, with the post-Thomas Bach era beginning after ...

On Thursday, one of seven contenders will come to occupy great responsibility when they are elected as the 10th president of ...

This is an achievement that took many, many decades, but it’s also quite a rare achievement for a major international sports event. Milano Cortina will be the Winter Olympics with the highest ...

(AP) — The biggest life-changer for snowboard champion Ayumu Hirano since he won an Olympic gold medal ... triple cork to stay at the top of his sport. Hirano landed it during both his runs ...

2012 and 2016 Olympic taekwondo gold medallist Jade Jones has confirmed she is pursuing a career in professional boxing; 31-year-old says: "Boxing has always fascinated me and I'm excited to test ...

"I am also convinced that President Trump and his administration will fully support the Olympic Games," Bach told The Associated Press in a rare interview at IOC headquarters. "He likes sport ...

More than 1,500 Special Olympics athletes from 102 delegations are set to come together in Turin, Italy for the world’s largest sports and humanitarian event – a demonstration of sport ...

Double Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones has quit the sport to pursue a career as a professional boxer. The 31-year-old has made the shock decision following her first-round defeat at Paris ...

LONDON (AP) — Jade Jones, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in taekwondo ... To be a world champion in two sports would be pretty cool," Jones told the BBC. She will be trained by Stephen ...

Three human rights experts commissioned by the United Nations on Tuesday issued a report saying some security measures for the 2024 Paris Olympics were “unnecessary or disproportionate" while others ...