A medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games smashed auction estimates, selling for about four times its expected high price at a Danish auction house on Sunday.

The community gathered to watch history unfold as Phillips stood on the Olympic podium with a gold medal around her neck.

While the first known Olympics were in southern Greece in 776 BCE, the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896 . Athletes from 14 countries participated, with the largest delegations ...

The Olympic medal ribbons are dark blue. The Paralympic medal ribbons are a deep red, which is a combination of the first two paint coats that were used on the Eiffel Tower, according to the website ...

Gwyn Phillips, a goalie with the U.S. women’s hockey team, grew up in Athens where she began developing her hockey skills on the ice at Bird Ice Arena.

Columnist Gerald Winegrad shares his nephew’s experiences working for NBC Sports in its coverage of the Winter Olympics in ...

Photographs taken around Athens 10 years after the 2004 Olympic Games show a significant number of abandoned Olympic sites, ...