After USA boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, the U.S.S.R. answered by skipping the 1984 Los Angeles games. The U.K ...

ASHLAND The Highlands Museum and Discovery Center continues to celebrate the Olympic Games with the exhibit titled “The ...

Los Angeles was the only city to bid, and thus picked, to host the 1984 Summer Olympics. After a United States-led boycott of ...

Seven candidates are competing for one of the biggest and best jobs in world sports that traditionally becomes available only ...

Daniel Dubious was branded a quitter after a disastrous night in 2020. Now a champion, will he rewrite his story against ...

FILE - World Athletics President Sebastian Coe of Britain, shown in 2022, is among seven candidates to become president of ...

In 1980, she becomes the first driver to win ... two gold medals and one silver in track and field events at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She later wins 41 events in a golf career that ...

In 1980, much like this year, Russia (or the Soviet Union to be exact) was hosting a major international sports event – the Summer Olympics. Overshadowed by the Soviet military intervention in ...

In nine days in February 1980 at Lake Placid, N.Y., Heiden accomplished what no Olympian had ever done -- he won five individual gold medals in a single Olympics, be it Summer or Winter.

Helped coach the 1980 Summer Olympic Yugoslavian team. He is survived by Jackie Greenwood, son K. R. Jeff Greenwood. Memorial March 16, 12noon, Bergen Park Church, 1318 County Rd. 65, in Evergreen.

Valentina Petrillo of Italy is set to become the first transgender woman to compete at the Paralympics when she runs the 200 and 400 meters in the T12 classification for visually impaired athletes.

Kerri Strug and the 1980 gold-medal winning men’s hockey team, in advance of the next Summer Olympics heading to Los Angeles in 2028.