The 2026 Winter Olympics are in the rearview mirror, but the chance of getting a medal is not over. You don’t even need to be a superstar athlete—just some deep pockets. Bids are open for several ...

A new exhibit at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum puts the spotlight on the founder of the modern Games — and America's ...

A medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games smashed auction estimates, selling for about four times its expected price at a Danish auction house on March 1. The silver medal from the 1896 Athens ...

An extraordinary piece of sporting and cultural history has sold at auction in Denmark. A medal from the world's first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896 has fetched around €100,000 at a sale ...

The Olympics date back to 776 B.C.E., when athletes first started gathering in Olympia, Greece, for a festival honoring Zeus. But the modern Olympics as we know them today are a relatively recent ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A gold medal from the first modern Olympics, in 1896 in Athens, sold at auction, more than tripling its estimated value, according to Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen Arts ...

Celebrating 50 years of women’s Olympic rowing is also one of the themes of this year’s Henley Women’s Regatta. Throughout ...

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