The 2024 Paris Olympics have been glorious for gymnasts, with stunning routines from USA’s Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles and Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, who became the first female gymnast from her ...

African states won new power when they demanded New Zealand withdraw because of their rugby tour of apartheid South Africa. The 1976 Olympics marked a turning point in Olympic history: it was the ...

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HOUSTON - Track and field legend Fred Newhouse, Olympic gold medalist and Prairie View A&M University alumnus, passed away at ...

The images accurately depicted Olympic torches from various years. However, one of the images incorrectly reported the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens took place in 2006. In late July 2024, shortly ...

Here's what you need to know about weightlifting at the 2024 Paris Olympics. When did weightlifting become an Olympic sport? The first modern Olympic Games in 1896 included men's weightlifting, but ...

As with the Olympic opening ceremony, my three-generation family will be watching Sunday's closing ceremony. Like millions of our fellow earthlings, we've been glued to our screens on all platforms ...

France's Leon Marchand made Olympic history Wednesday as the first swimmer since East Germany's Kornelia Ender in 1976 to win two individual events in a single day. Marchand first made an epic ...

Fifty years ago, athletically minded residents of the Canton area made a bid to increase Stark County's presence on the national sports map. "The Kent State Stark campus site of the 1972 AAU Women's ...

Olympic events are far from a modern invention. These competitions have taken place in various forms for thousands of years, beginning in Ancient Greece when athletes gathered in Olympia to test their ...

Editor's note: This Monday After column originally appeared in the Repository in August 2021. It is being republished with the Paris 2024 Summer Games underway and Stark County resident Marcus ...

Coming off their best-ever Olympic performance, the Japanese women's basketball team will look to build on their silver medal of 2020 when they battle the United States in a rematch of the gold medal ...