Figure skating has been a key part of the Olympics, even before the first Winter Games in 1924 ...

How a city celebrating the Thunder’s NBA title, with Olympic softball and canoe slalom on the way, has used sports to change its identity. I dipped my paddle in the water and helped steer our raft ...

Sebastian Coe would love to see a cross-country running race brought back to the Olympics at the 2030 Winter Games. The president of World Athletics has long argued for the event's inclusion in the ...

If there was only a gold medal for finger-pointing… Caltrans says the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles is responsible for maintaining the artworks along the freeway Downtown. MCLA co-founder Bill ...

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Oscar winner Jamie Foxx stars as an Olympic boxing coach in a new movie setting up production in New Jersey. “Fight for ’84″ is based on the real story of the 1984 United States Olympic boxing team.

That was a worried shout heard in 1984 as the Olympic archery competition was getting ready to start at El Dorado Regional Park in Long Beach. This story about how a skunk possibly could have canceled ...

The LA28 organizing committee has proposed moving the Los Angeles Olympics diving competition from the site of the 1932 Olympics competition on the USC campus in Exposition Park to the Rose Bowl ...

Can the hard-driving Hollywood scion navigate political land mines, relentless fundraising and a showboating president to deliver Games glory to L.A.? By Peter Kiefer Writer-at-Large Enter the gates ...