The Games kicked off with a Shakespeare reading, pastoral scenes and the queen. July 27, 2012 — -- London's Olympic Stadium became a vast meadow in an opening ceremony that at first evoked the ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KABC) -- Exposition Park is known as the crossroads of the LA community, but in three years, it will once again become the crossroads of the world, as the Olympics make a return ...

Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Vol. 33/34, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: Design, Culture and Urbanity in an Era of Dissonance (2021-2022), pp. 55-67 (13 pages) Kuresawa Takemi, Orinpikku to ...

You tune in to watch the Olympics for a number of reasons. Maybe you're a fan of a particular sport or player; maybe you just love watching incredible feats of strength and agility from the world's ...

The Paris Olympics provided a platform for American women to shine. Team USA finished atop the Olympic medal count with 126 overall and tied China for the most golds with 40 largely thanks to the ...

First African and female IOC president Focus on transparency and new sports for youth Aims to enhance athlete representation PYLOS, Greece, March 20 (Reuters) - Kirsty Coventry, an Olympic champion ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Organizers of the Salt Lake City 2034 Winter Games announced a fundraising effort on Monday that they say is the largest philanthropic campaign supporting a host city in Olympic ...

During the near decade since L.A. was awarded the 2028 Olympics, new venues have arrived, proposed venues have fallen through and sports have shuffled, but the centerpiece of the ever-evolving plan ...

Organizers of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles have released the initial competition schedule, outlining the timing and order of events for what they are calling the most ambitious program in ...

The most decorated 100 m sprinter in sports history, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, has officially retired after a successful ...