SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A Savannah native and service member from World War II received an Arlington Burial on Thursday. Chief ...

Securing 49 out of 97 votes, Kirsty Coventry won a decisive victory over Spanish IOC vice-president Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr ...

Seven-time Olympic medallist Kirsty Coventry broke new ground when she was elected the 10th president of the International ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th ...

The slow-burn race for the most powerful job in world sport roared into life on Wednesday, set against the dazzling backdrop ...

After an electoral race that began last September, when the names of the seven candidates were announced, the election of the new president of the ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The future of an ambitious electricity cable linking the power grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel by the end of the decade is on track despite a series of setbacks, Greece’s ...

Cycling's history at the modern Olympics dates back to the very first Olympiad in Athens in 1896, which included an 87km road race - won by a Greek, Aristides Konstantinidis - and track races. There ...

Evangelos Zappas was born in 1800 in Lambovo, Epirus, in a time of turbulence and change. He was a child of a Greece that was fighting for its independence. From..

Olympia, Greece, where the weather reaches a refreshing 16C in April, is ideal for those looking to avoid the blistering summer heat. Known as the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games ...

The Olympic Games, a festival in honour of Zeus, god of Olympus (a mountain 150 miles away in northern Greece), were abolished with the advent of Christianity in AD 393. In his beautifully written ...

For these avid travellers, Olympia in Greece has been singled out as an ideal spot to visit during the off-season, offering milder weather and fewer tourists. Olympia, where temperatures reach a ...