Everything you wanted to know about WTA tennis player Jessica Pegula, including her bio, fun facts, and information about ...

He stands at six feet five. He tips the scale at 180 pounds. He hails from Bimini, The Bahamas, and played his high school ball in both West Palm Beach, Florida, and Brookville, New York. He is going ...

Everything you wanted to know about ATP tennis player Alexander Zverev, including his bio, fun facts, and information about Zverev's tennis career.

So suit up, grab your snacks and get ready for the 2024 Summer Olympics, which start on July 26. Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more fun facts, humor, cleaning, travel and tech ...

The Special Olympics Winter Games are set to kick off on March 8; athletes from around the world are set to descend on Turin, Italy. The global organization, which is dedicated to children and ...

It would be a list of Olympic facts if we didn’t talk about the French historian, Pierre de Coubertin, who sought to revive the Olympics in 1894, and managed to do it two years later.

In 1904, the Olympic Games were staged in St. Louis but this time, the women's competition was dropped. Instead, the 1904 games consisted of an individual men's tournament and a team men's tournament.

The 2024 Paris Olympics are set to officially kick off on Friday, with opening ceremonies set to start at 1:30 p.m. ET (7:30 p.m. local time), though some team events started on July 24. For the first ...

4. The Olympic Games Paris 2024 mascot is Olympic Phryge. According to the Olympic Games website, the mascot is based on the traditional small Phrygian hats after which they are shaped.

Here are some other tidbits of interesting Olympic facts you can put under your Phrygian cap as you tune in through Aug. 11, when closing ceremonies will take place. Let the Summer Games begin!

Another one of the fun facts about the Olympics is that from the years 1924 to 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympics would happen in the same year. However, now the games are on separate cycles and ...