These next two months can be a strange period for tennis — especially in an Olympic year — with some players keeping ... a ...

Sgt Paul Howard of Abbeyleix Garda Station will be among 106 police officers from across the world at the run in Turin next ...

The cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo are joining forces to host the next Games. Here are all the details.

Emotion dominated the opening as Hirohito lit the Olympic flame with a torch handed to him by Yoshinori Sakai, a runner born near Hiroshima on the day the atom bomb was dropped there in 1945.

The lighting of the Olympic flame, with an archer firing a burning arrow into the cauldron, was an innovative start to 16 days of action that never ceased to stimulate the imagination. The sight ...

The 2024 Olympics offered no shortage of excitement (and controversies), but few have captivated the global audience as much as the bronze medal dispute in women's gymnastics. U.S. gymnast Jordan ...

Tom Cruise's stunt during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics happened thanks to a couple of conditions set by the actor. During a panel at the CNBC Game Plan Summit, Casey Wasserman ...

As far as major sporting events go, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games scored top marks when it came to iconic moments. In the pool, Leon Marchand secured four gold medals, all to the thundering ...

The Olympic marathon is a legendary event and has featured on the programme since the first Games of the modern era in 1896 in Athens. There have been so many incredible exploits and stories over the ...

Flag football is a variant of American football (or gridiron) where the aim is to advance up the pitch via a series of offensive plays into the opposition’s defensive endzone. It is a no-contact sport ...

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