The early days of the Milan Cortina Games have been roiled by the tumultuous political debate in the U.S. American athletes ...

The director of "Fists of Freedom," a documentary about Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, says the reaction to ...

In honor of Tina and Milo making their mascot debuts, here's a look back at all the mascots in Olympics history.

At 19, Peggy Fleming won the only U.S. gold at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France – seven years after a plane crash ...

Dick Fosbury's high jump gold medal from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics — which he won with the revolutionary Fosbury Flop — sold at auction for $158,600. The medal was one of a few Fosbury items ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. In many recent articles and conversations concerning NFL players kneeling during the ...

The iconic photograph of two Black athletes standing on the podium at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, heads bowed and fists raised in the Black Power Salute as “The Star-Spangled Banner” played ...