The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome were fraught with change and significance. It was a time of racial struggle in the United States. The Cold War between the USSR and the United States was heating up.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, has died. He was 86. Family friend Michael Roth says Johnson ...

Don Thompson set an Olympic-record time and beat former gold medallists to win the 50km (31 mile) race walking event in Rome. Folkestone Running and Athletics Club in Kent, of which Thompson was a ...

ROME (AP) — Nino Benvenuti, an Italian former boxer who won gold at his home Olympics in 1960 before earning world championship titles in two weight classes as a pro, has died at age 87. The Italian ...

America's 1960 Olympic discus silver medallist and former world record holder Rink Babka has died at the age of 85 ©Art of the Olympians He died last Saturday (January 15) due to congestive heart ...