As the 2026 Winter Games get started, here are some of the ways Olympic athletes are stepping up to take climate action.

The Olympic Games have historically rejected Black athletes based on race, banned them for protesting, disqualified them for ...

The winner of the Chicago, London, Madrid and Tokyo marathons leads a group of five Kenyan athletes who will compete at Los ...

South Africa are set to be the best-represented African country at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics (Feb. 6-22), with ...

At the Paris 2024 Games, Turkey fielded a small athletics team of 16 athletes and failed to win a single medal. The country’s ...

The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics will kick off with a 17-day competition starting with the opening ceremony at San Siro ...

After winning two gold medals in 2016 and 2021, Kenyan marathon great Eliud Kipchoge will return to the Olympics, this time ...

Kenya's ex-marathon record holder Brigid Kosgei told AFP on Thursday that she and four other Kenyans will compete for Turkey ...

Partnering with IsraAID, former hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel toured the camp's facilities as part of their recent entry into humanitarian work.

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From a cult hero ski jumper, to African bobsleigh pioneers and more, here are half a dozen unexpected heroes ...