For the first time, athletes will be able to compete in breaking — an urban dance started in the United States — which was ...

So, with that said, here is a running list of firsts from the ... Flora Duffy won Bermuda’s first Olympic gold medal with a victory in the women's triathlon. The Olympic Games welcomed three new ...

becoming the first woman from the Philippines to win any Olympic event. Weightlifting is one of the more impressive sports on ...

The Soviet Union tops the all-time list with 62 gold medals won in Olympic ... win individual gold in the same discipline at four consecutive Olympics. Was wrestling an original Olympic sport?

Check out the list of unique competitors now. American ski jumper Patrick Gasienica, who competed for the United States last year in the Beijing Olympics ... Korea looks for first women's curling ...

RIO 2016: The design for the current Summer Olympics once again features Nike on the obverse, and the reverse depicts the emblem of the games along with a subtle, stylized? laurel wreathe.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dallas Long, a three-time NCAA shot put champion who won a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, has died ...

Former NBA star Sam Perkins and Special Olympics track-and-field medalist Rodney Hawkins -- childhood friends who grew up together in Brooklyn -- reunited to support Special Olympics. The first ...

Her disqualification has reignited a long debate over marijuana prohibition in Olympic sports. Given that ... since the organisation first created its list of prohibited substances in 2004.

For a complete list of funders for the PBS NewsHour ... if we look at the history of the modern Olympic Games, the first game was held in 1896 and the founder at that time espoused really sexist ...

Basketball’s biggest stars — Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley, and the list goes on and on — played for the first ... NBC Sports (@NBCSports) August 10, 2024 ...