Some 34.2 million viewers watched the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing on Aug. 8, 2008. However, following the spectacular show, Western news reports charged that organizers of the ...

Prior to Russia's ban from international figure skating, the Russians had won more medals at the world championships than any ...

Rebecca Adlington shot to fame at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, winning two gold medals, but her life has been far from easy ...

Female athletes will be in the majority at an Olympics for the first time at the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games thanks to a ...

Female athletes will be in the majority at an Olympics for the first time at the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games thanks to a ...

Summer Olympics will introduce new and returning sports, like flag football, cricket (returning for the first time since 1900 ...

The former sprinter, bobsledder, now Gladiator and Strictly star from London, was the first British woman to do the Summer/Winter Olympics ... In 2008, she made her first Olympics, running in the 100m ...

And in pairs, Russians have taken gold in five of the past eight Olympics, and its skaters took silver and bronze at the Beijing Games. The U.S. has not had a women's Olympic champion since Sarah ...