Return to top St Louis 1904 Just 12 countries competed in the 1904 Olympics, with US athletes accounting for 83 per cent of participants. Again, the Games were spread out over a long period - four ...

Snopes claims some of these events weren’t a part of the Olympics, but there’s just as much evidence saying that they did.

Women compete in the Olympics — in golf ... For the first time in Olympic history, the U.S. sends more women than men to participate in the Summer Games in London. The women’s national ...

Historian Dan Snow looks back at 90 years of the Winter Olympics in a documentary to be broadcast on BBC Two, showing how the political upheaval of the 20th and 21st centuries have impacted on the ...

In 2008 Beijing Olympics, shooter Abhinav Bindra scripted history by becoming the first individual athlete to win a gold medal for India. Bindra clinched the medal in 10m air rifle event to end ...

She acted as consultant for a documentary video on the ancient Olympics made for the International Olympic Committee.

"Was there an Olympic Village built for the 1948 London Olympics? If not ... from there to the various sports grounds. Making History consulted Sylvia Cheeseman, a British sprinter in the 1948 ...

whose decades-long obsession with the Olympics is culminating in a new book delving into the Olympics’ lengthy design history. Published by Swiss niggli, the book traces the Olympic design history in ...

The torch also bears the markings for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. This is the prototype ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums ...

A popular destination in the Olympic National Park has been closed with no timeline for reopening. Because the Upper Hoh Rain ...

Through the Special Olympics, she’s captured gold in golf and swimming. Through the training, the competitions, and the success, her dad Ron Fulop was always in her corner. At just 8 years old ...

Lindsay Fulop knows the feeling of a "gold medal moment." Through the Special Olympics, she's captured gold in golf and swimming. Through the training, the competitions, and the success ...