Once every four years, the world comes together to watch the best athletes compete in the Summer Olympics. The 2024 […] ...

Russia has been banned from the 2024 Olympics as punishment for the war sparked by its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, so no Russian winners will feature in any medal tables. Although some Russian ...

Prior to 1996, Turkmen athletes competed on teams with the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the 1992 Unified Team. Prior to Guryeva's trailblazing accomplishment, the last country to win its ...

Former Russian athlete Tatyana Tomashova has been stripped of her 2012 Olympic 1500m silver medal for doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced on Tuesday. Tomashova, now 49 ...

The need to create trophies and medals for Para athletes arose at the Stoke Mandeville Games – the predecessor of the Paralympic Games and Paralympic Winter Games – which began in 1948. While today, ...

The Russian women's 4x400m relay team have been stripped of the silver medals they won at the London 2012 Olympics after Antonina Krivoshapka tested positive for a banned substance. Krivoshapka ...

And there’s none more vacant than the Olympic medal count. It was ubiquitous during the Paris Games, as it always is: on NBC during breaks in competition, even on the nighttime local news.

Lenin, the flaming torch that fired the Russian masses and sought to fire ... In a word, visualize the component human elements of the far-flung empire of the Tsars and you will begin to ...

The first round of Olympic medals for artistic gymnastics will be awarded at the conclusion of the men’s team final. In the absence of the reigning Olympic team champions (the Russian Olympic ...

The skaters received their medals, which had been held up by legal wranglings over the eligibility of a Russian skater, during an Aug. 7 ceremony in Paris. That event was a day after CAS sent its ...

The Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire, Amanda Parker, will present British Empire Medals (BEM) on behalf of His Majesty King Charles III to recipients from the county commended in the recent New Year ...