Many Olympic venues are left to decay after the events are over. See what these cities have done with the facilities after ...

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Professor of Sport Studies Amy Bass joins WIRED to answers the internet's burning questions about the history of the Olympics. When were the first olympics contested? How do the olympic games of ...

From Rio to Athens, these Olympic arenas, buildings and villages from around the world lay abandoned. See eerie photos from ...

Take a look back at the biggest Olympics controversies, from Jordan Chiles losing her bronze medal to Tonya Harding's ...

MILAN (AP) — The IOC elected its first female member from Iran on Wednesday, who became its current youngest representative and opened the Olympic body to scrutiny over the country's record on women ...

By making the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, the former Hawks track star turned bobsledder 'shows that anything’s ...

She has been a Summer Olympian, a Winter Olympian, a Gladiator and a 'Strictly Come Dancing' quarter-finalist – and now ...

While athletes compete under their nation’s respective flags, that won’t be the case for those hailing from Russia.

Ryan Lochte is facing renewed attention after his estranged wife, Kayla Reid, questioned his parenting in a People interview. His girlfriend, Molly Gillihan, responded with a pointed Instagram post ...

The records keep on tumbling in the final of the men's 200M individual medley swimming at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

The 2028 U.S. Olympic gymnastics team will be the first to compete on home soil since 1996. It could also possibly be their first without Simone Biles since 2012. Balance beam gold medalist Shawn ...