1986 — Atlanta’s Spud Webb, at 5-foot-7, wins NBA Slam Dunk competition. Webb receives a perfect 50 from the judges in the last two rounds to shock defending dunk champion Dominique Wilkins and the ...

Mystery surrounds the absence of Melbourne’s 1956 Olympic torch from a world-renowned display at the birthplace of the Modern ...

The whereabouts of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic torch meant to be on display at an Athenian Olympics museum remains a mystery.

MILAN (AP) — Next year’s Winter Olympics might be called the Milan Cortina Games but they will actually be staged across a ...

She swam at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, flew with the WASPs in World War II and trained pilots at a time when few women were ...

Iris Cummings Critchell, an aviation pioneer who was believed to be the last living Olympian from the 1936 Berlin Games, died last Friday at age 104. Her death was confirmed by the IOC and by Harvey ...

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 ...

The ’36 Olympics were supposed to be a showcase for the Nazi regime. A massive new stadium was built and the games were the first broadcast on TV around the world. Yet Hitler’s planned demonstration ...

The tier two stadium proposal has also been touted as being “low risk in terms of procurement and staging of construction in time for 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games”. “There are multiple ...

Palaszczuk also revealed she had been told the LNP government’s 100-day Olympic review committee had already decided to pursue a stadium at Victoria Park. “I’ve been told the committee has ...