In exactly one year, the Olympic flame will be lit in front of the winter backdrop of Italy’s second biggest city. Feb. 6, ...

French biathlon star Martin Fourcade has dropped his bid to head up the organizing committee of the 2030 Winter Olympics due ...

The Games opened on Jan. 25, with a parade of competing nations. The next day, U.S. skater Charles Jewtraw claimed the first ...

Here’s some background information about the Winter Olympics, which are held every four years. The 2026 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held February 6-22, 2026, in Milan-Cortina, Italy. The 2022 ...

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

Some athletes who took podium spots at last summer's Paris Games say their medals, designed by an LVMH-owned jewelry brand, are visibly deteriorating.

This tiny country has more or less dominated the Winter Olympics since the first winter games in Chamonix, France in 1924. How do they do It? "It's a good question," said Birk Ruud, a member of ...

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.

The designers of the medals for the 2024 Olympics in Paris have spoken out after a number of them were handed back by the winning athletes for being in poor condition. Team USA skateboarder Nyjah ...

Federica Brignone and Sofia Goggia made it a sweep for host Italy on the course for next year's Milan-Cortina Olympics. Brignone dominated a World Cup super-G on Sunday to follow Goggia's downhill ...

The runup to the city hosting the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, in addition to World Cup matches in 2026 and a Super Bowl in '27, will coincide with massive rebuilding of housing and ...

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