The Spirit of Competition Knows No Age The achievements of athletes like Carlos Lopes, who at 37 brought home Portugal’s first Olympic gold medal in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, set a compelling ...

Breaking Age Barriers: Competing in the Olympics After 30 ...

Norway is leading the Beijing Olympics Medals table with a total of 29 medals including 14 gold, 7 silver and 8 bronze medals. Germany is at second position with 10 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze medals ...

FOR more than six months, Kirsty Coventry has upscaled her campaign to conquer the world and make history by becoming the ...

Hours before President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at closing the Education Department, his press secretary ...

The next president of the International Olympic Committee is a former Zimbabwe swimmer who is Africa's most decorated Olympian and a minister in a government often accused of oppressing political ...

Ester Ledecka added another trophy to her collection when she won the parallel giant slalom at the snowboard world championships.

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the first woman and first African ...

As the first African to run for the International Olympic Committee’s top job, Kirsty Coventry has made waves in IOC politics, albeit in a different way than in the pool.