He won two Olympic gold medals. Now Sebastian Coe wants to run the International Olympic Committee and give athletes greater ...

The following candidates will stand for election to replace Thomas Bach as the president of the International Olympic ...

And I've lived in Tokyo for a while, so it really means a lot for me to go back, to represent my family, but also my country," says the athlete, 28, ahead of karate's Olympic debut. "I'm going ...

Nowadays, while the athletes don't get paid directly by ... It's a far cry from 1896 when the modern-day Olympics began. Take ...

with no more than two athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC). Breakdown of the modern pentathlon events: Riding: A show jumping course that features 15 jumps over 12 obstacles on an unfamiliar ...

Not many events in history show what the culture of ancient Greece was like as well as the Panhellenic Games do.

IOC presidential candidate Sebastian Coe says the impact of climate change on the global sports calendar will be a priority ...

Although much has changed since the first modern-day Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, one thing that has remained constant is an athlete’s pursuit for the medals table in the name of ...

The shorter format isn’t the only change coming to modern pentathlon: after the Paris Olympics, an obstacle course discipline will replace horse riding. But for now, the horses remain. Athletes ...