In 1896, with the revival of the Olympic Games, James Brendan Connolly, the son of immigrants from the Aran islands, became ...

Simon Calder answers your questions on the best way to see the Greek capital and how to beat engineering works over Christmas ...

The Olympics bring countries together through sport. You watch top athletes compete for medals and expect fairness along with unity. History shows a different story though. Personal gain, political ...

The 24-time Grand Slam champion is playing his penultimate tournament of the 2025 season in Athens, which hosts an ATP tournament for the first time since 1994.

The inspiration for the modern marathon comes from an ancient legend: that of Philippides a Greek messenger who ran from ...

I mean, how cool is this? I will forever for the rest of my life be able to say we won Game 7 of the World Series in the last game I ever played. You can’t script that.” ...

Kouvelos came to Annenberg Hall on Friday to give the first lecture of the Olympic Ideals Series, co-hosted by the USC Center ...

The Athens Olympics might have been the first modern Games, but it was the 1912 Olympics, held in Stockholm, Sweden, that ...

For the first time in two centuries, visitors to Athens are being treated to a rare sight: the Parthenon, Greece’s most ...

For the first time in decades, the D.C. delegate race is competitive, as two members of the D.C. Council have launched campaigns for the seat long held by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. Julius Hobson Jr.

TOKYO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Japan stands a good chance of having its first woman prime minister or its youngest leader in the modern era after a vote on Saturday to pick the head of the nation’s ruling ...

Alex Pereira can reaffirm his dominance with a victory over Magomed Ankalaev to reclaim the light heavyweight belt. UFC 320 takes place this Saturday in Las Vegas, featuring a rematch between Ankalaev ...