The Chef de Mission role was often filled by sports administrators or volunteer sport leaders at earlier Games, but since ...

The cavity has expanded to 40m across, almost the length of an Olympic swimming pool, since opening up in a city just north of Tokyo on the morning of Jan 28, officials said. The growing hole ...

20 Olympians and several contributors to the Olympic Movement have been honoured with Australia Day awards. Swimming, a sport deeply embedded in Australia’s Olympic identity, saw recognition for ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a cornerstone of U.S. civil rights law, prohibiting discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and sex. This landmark legislation outlawed segregation ...

Olympic medals are displayed on a custom-designed trunk by Louis Vuitton at the Champions Park at Trocadero during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. © 2024 ...

Bobby Vinton Last week Weeks at no. 1 Weeks on chart Epic Week of January 25, 1964 click to see more Epic Wand ...

Throughout an extraordinary sporting year; one flame burns brightest. Primed to host its second Summer Olympics (23 July – 8 August), its perhaps prescient to reflect on the events of Tokyo 1964. Then ...

Former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the Olympic review committee has "already decided" to build a new stadium at Victoria Park for the Brisbane 2032 Games. The LNP government is ...

Last year's Paris Olympics may have been a resounding success but there’s been a snag: some medals are falling apart. More than 100 athletes have complained to the International Olympic ...

All that glitters is not gold — and, as some athletes who competed in the Paris Olympics are finding out, even gold can lose its luster. Since the 2024 Olympic Games last August, some Olympians ...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the IBA - which ran the Olympic Games' boxing programme - in 2019 because of concerns over its finances, governance, ethics, refereeing and judging.