ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Seven candidates in the IOC presidential election came to the most sacred Olympic site on Tuesday, two days before the contest to elect a new leader. Rain at Ancient ...

MINNEAPOLIS — When University of Minnesota history professor Dr. Andrew Gallia watches the Olympics these days, he notices some striking similarities to the ancient version of the games that began in ...

Nearly 2,500 years ago, a Greek wrestler, Milo of Croton, was regarded as the strongest person who ever lived in the known ...

GREECE, N.Y. — An English as a new language teacher at Greece Olympia died in a car crash on Friday, two days after the district began its first day of school. The Greece Central School District ...

The Olympics date back to 776 B.C.E., when athletes first started gathering in Olympia, Greece, for a festival honoring Zeus. But the modern Olympics as we know them today are a relatively recent ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece -- With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they shuffled ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they shuffled ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — Even the gods need a backup plan. Organizers in Ancient Olympia held an emergency rehearsal Monday to light the flame for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games, seizing on a ...