The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics begin in one week, and the United Nations and organizers are calling for a 7-week pause of all wars worldwide — as they do every time the Olympics take place.

Kirsty Coventry, the multi-Olympic swimming champion who last year became the first woman to lead the International Olympic ...

Professor of Sport Studies Amy Bass joins WIRED to answers the internet's burning questions about the history of the Olympics. When were the first olympics contested? How do the olympic games of ...

Hundreds of volunteers, dancers and performers are rehearsing long hours as preparations intensify for the Feb. 6 opening ...

Ancient Greek athletes used a variety of training methods to prepare for the Olympic Games and other such contests.

The Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, a holy site dedicated to Zeus. These early ...

ROME (AP) — The Olympic flame for the Milan Cortina Winter Games landed in Rome on Thursday following a handover in Greece. The flame was carried in a small lantern aboard an ITA Airways flight ...

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