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When did the Olympics start? How the modern Summer and Winter games came to be
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 3 hours agoThe 2024 Summer Olympics are fast approaching. More than 800 athletes will head to Paris to compete...
Olympics could ballon to 12,000 athletes as IOC is faced with some hard calls in Mumbai
Yahoo Sport UK· 7 months agoInternational Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach and former mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti...
IOC reinstates Jim Thorpe's sole possession of 1912 Olympic gold medals
Yahoo Sports via AOL· 2 years agoFor the first time in 110 years, Jim Thorpe stands alone atop the Olympic podium. The International...
Should Olympic athletes get paid?
The Week via Yahoo Sports· 2 weeks agoPhoto montage of sprinters chasing a dollar bill. In 1986, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) amended its governing charter to encourage "all the...
Russian athletes must be banned from Olympics, Ukraine’s Zelensky says
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoUkraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has urged France to ban Russian athletes from attending the...
IOC pushes back again on Italy's $90M plan to rebuild bobsled track for 2026 Winter Olympics
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe International Olympic Committee is still not impressed with Italy’s determination to spend about...
Bobsledding, figure skating, hockey: See photos of the first Winter Olympics a century ago
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 4 months agoThe Olympic Winter Games are celebrating 100 years of sport on snow and ice this week. Thursday will...
Flying discs & overhead kicks - the next Olympic sports?
BBC via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoIOC president Thomas Bach [Getty Images] “Change or be changed.” After succeeding Jacques Rogge as...
'Greatest athlete' Jim Thorpe reinstated as sole winner of 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJim Thorpe, the former U.S. Olympic great, sets a fast pace for some girls during an athletic event...
IOC says there will be no compromise if Milan-Cortina Olympics track is not ready by March 2025
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe International Olympic Committee reiterated that the bobsled track for the Milan-Cortina Games...