The Olympic anthem, first performed at the 1896 Athens Games, was featured at the 2026 Milan Cortina Opening Ceremony. Here’s ...

If the rules of ancient Greece were observed today, drone and missile fire over Ukraine would stop on Friday as guns fall ...

FILE - Lambis Nikolaou, head of the Greek Olympic Committee, right, hands the Olympic Flame to Mitt Romney, head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, at the Panathenian stadium in Athens on Dec. 3, ...

(AP) Eight years after winning Olympic medals in Athens, four track and field athletes from eastern Europe were ordered to hand them back Wednesday because of positive doping tests. Lance Armstrong, ...

ATHENS, Greece — Police briefly scuffled with a small group of demonstrators when the Beijing Olympics torch relay reached Athens on Saturday. A group of anti-globalization protesters, chanting, "the ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Lambis Nikolaou, a former International Olympic Committee vice president who helped to organize the 2004 Athens Summer Games, has died. He was 89. Nikolaou was an IOC ...