In the summer of 1904, the United States hosted its first-ever Olympic Games. Up to that point, the global competititon had been held in Europe, but organizers decided to venture across the Atlantic ...
Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was ...
The history of the marathon's distance is rooted in the very spirit for which the Olympics were created, and an event that ...
On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...
A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil was sold at auction for over half a million dollars, part of ...
Townsville man Paddy McHugh is helping to bring camel racing to the Olympics and is set to stage part of a World Series Camel ...
The Greek Cup quarter-finals bring us yet another installment of the iconic Derby of Eternal Enemies, as Olympiacos travels ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The family of the late Costas Simitis former Prime Minister, his ...
Simitis considered Greece’s entry into the eurozone in January 2001 as the signature achievement of his premiership. But he also helped secure the 2004 Olympic Games for Athens and presided over a ...
The Summer Olympics, held shortly after Mr ... the crisis by denying Mr. Ocalan a haven. In his first term, Mr. Simitis set about curtailing Greece’s extravagant public and private spending ...