CHATEAUROUX, France (AP) — China has won the first gold medal of the Paris Olympics, but its athletes were nowhere near Paris. The Olympic shooting range, a three-hour drive from Paris in the ...

Spyros Louis, the first Marathon winner of the modern Olympics. Spyros Louis (12 January 1873 – 26 March 1940), was a Greek ...

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

winning the West African nation of Burkina Faso -- which has sent athletes to every summer Olympics since 1988 -- its first ever medal, a bronze. Zango's jump of 17.47m was just 0.03m better than ...

Thomas Krol won gold in the 1,000 meters on Friday ... The clock is ticking for American speedskater Casey Dawson to get to his first Olympics after he tested positive for COVID-19 three weeks ...

The 2020 Olympic Games might not be happening, but we can still celebrate the amazing women who have competed. This is the story of the first women to win. The 2020 Olympic Games are postponed ...

At the 2016 Rio Games, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and American cyclist Kristin Armstrong were among the athletes who etched their names into Olympic history by winning the same individual event ...

won three gold medals and a silver while becoming the first Canadian swimmer to win three golds at one Olympics. The U.S. won eight swimming golds and Australia won seven. Why are the Aussies so ...

During her time as one of the most prominent marathon runners in the circuit, Benoit was the first women's marathoner to win a gold medal at the Olympics. Benoit's most prized victory of her ...

One of those humans is Daniela Moroz from Lafayette, a six-time Formula Kite World Champion who won her first at the age of 15. This is the first year that kiteboarding has been included in the ...

Since the U.S. first sent NBA players to the Summer Olympics in 1992, Team USA has dominated the world’s premier sporting event. The U.S. has won seven of the eight Olympic gold medals in men ...