Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo says he could have turned to a life of crime in Botswana had it not been for sport.

Filipino athletes had stood on the Olympic podium twelve times in the past, but it was lucky number thirteen that put them on the top step. Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz won the southeast Asian nation its ...

Boitano came away with the gold and Orser the silver, while Ukranian Viktor Petrenko claimed his country’s first-ever Winter Olympic medal, a bronze. Katarina Witt won a second consecutive gold medal, ...

Arguably one of the greatest athletes to have ever ... went on to win an NFL championship with the Providence Steamrollers in 1928. Jim Bausch took part in the first L.A. Olympic games held ...

Jagger Eaton won the first-ever bronze Olympic medal in men's street skateboarding in Tokyo last week Lindsay Kimble is the Executive Editor, News at PEOPLE. She have been working at PEOPLE for ...

Yuto Horigome of Japan won the first ever skateboarding competition at the Olympic Games, taking gold in men’s street on Sunday in the city where he learned to skate as a kid and where his sport ...

He’s the third man ever to complete the Career Golden Slam. Andre Agassi was the first man to do it, when he won Roland Garros in 1999—having already won the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Rafael ...

This is the story of the first women to win. The 2020 Olympic Games ... who will be competing in the Olympics for the first time ever. Sport will only truly be equal when watching women compete ...

She has since won a gold medal and is now in the process of filing a lawsuit for cyber harassment. In the first-ever Olympic breakdancing competition, Australia’s Rachael Gunn (stage name RayGun ...

British Olympic silver medallist Matthew Hudson-Smith won $100,000 (£77,000) after winning the 200m at the first ever Grand Slam Track event on Satur Jump directly to the content talkSPORT ...