Olympic Day is celebrated every year on 23 June to honour the birth of the modern Olympics. Learn why it started and also ...

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The first modern Olympic Games in 1896 included men's weightlifting, but the sport didn't become a permanent fixture at the Olympics until 1920. The women's competition debuted at the 2000 Sydney ...

Coventry honored the strong women in her life after becoming the first African and woman to be elected to head the IOC.

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The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role Monday on the organization's 131st birthday with praise that the Olympic movement was ''in the ...

Sydney will host two of the greatest long distance runners ever, with three-time Olympic gold medallist Sifan Hassan joining ...

The World Super Kabaddi League wants to take kabaddi global, starting with 60% foreign athletes and an Olympic dream. But is ...

It’s been a time to look back and reflect on six decades of ups and downs, but of always remaining friends and sharing laughs for Olympians Hugh Porter and Anita Lonsbrough as they celebrated their ...

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...