Rio Olympics 2016 will see over 10,000 athletes competing in 42 sport disciplines over 19 days. Over 300 medals are to be won in the first-ever Olympics to be held in South America. Find out which ...

Dr Judith Swaddling is an Assistant Keeper in the Greek and Roman Department at the ... a guide to both the games and the site of ancient Olympia. She acted as consultant for a documentary video ...

When the IOC's 100-plus members, who include billionaires, global captains of industry, federation chiefs and royalty, go to ...

The seven candidates for the world's most powerful job in global sport — the presidency of the International Olympic ...

A taste of the suffering to come had already been evident in 2005, when the European Commission put Greece under fiscal monitoring after the state had spent more than €9 billion on the Olympics ...

Costas Simitis, who has died aged 88, was the prime minister who bolstered Greece’s self-esteem by taking it into the ...