The Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, capital of Senegal, draw Friday to an end.  For those who did not know this thing was even ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan – A judo match runs to four minutes. If there is no score or the match is tied, the two fighters go until someone wins. For as long as it might take. Judo is an intricate, beautiful, ...

For more than a century, the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup have represented the pinnacle of sporting achievement and global unity. They have inspired generations of athletes, connected billions ...

The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday lifted its suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee, a move that makes it all the more likely — probable — a full Russian team will compete at the Los ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Kirsty Coventry clearly has ambition. And some real political talent. She was elected president of the International Olympic Committee in the first round of balloting in March ...

Toyota is the world’s top-selling carmaker. In 2015, it committed to a 10-year deal to become one of the International Olympic Committee’s top-tier sponsors. In September 2024, shortly after the Paris ...

MILAN — The late Bud Greenspan made films about the Olympics. In 1968, as the story famously goes, he waited at the end of the men’s marathon in Mexico City. In the darkness, John Stephen Akhwari of ...

MILAN — Vladyslav Heraskevych, the Ukrainian skeleton racer disqualified for insisting he wanted to race in a helmet adorned with the faces of athletes killed by Russia, had said he was hoping for a ...

MILAN — The International Olympic Committee had no choice, really, but to disqualify the Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych. Rules are rules. For his part, Heraskevych, by putting himself ...

MILAN — The great thing about sports and in particular the Winter Olympics is that predictions mean, literally, nothing. In a medal almost no one saw coming, Ben Ogden took silver Tuesday in what in ...

MILAN — Thomas Bach famously said, change or be changed. That mantra is now on the doorstep of the new International Olympic Committee president, Kirsty Coventry. The Milano-Cortina Winter Games open ...

Insiders at World Athletics are believed to have stolen about $1.75 million over “a period of several years,” prompting the federation to pursue criminal cases while launching “a set of enhanced ...