The Special Olympics World Winter Games come to a close on Saturday with African nations making strong strides ...

By Ossian Shine, Karolos Grohmann and Julien Pretot PYLOS, Greece (Reuters) -Kirsty Coventry smashed through the ...

But South Africa’s Olympics trials will still be segregated, and its neighbors are unsatisfied. Complaining that black South African Olympians would be merely “trained monkeys who would be ...

Letting South Africa participate, the Soviet's Olympic Committee said, would be "an impermissible act which contradicts the basic principles of the Olympic statute." Under this pressure--not to ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee on the first ballot, making her the first ...

It marks the first time an Olympic sports event will be hosted in Africa and will feature 25 sporting categories, including athletics, aquatics, baseball, basketball, boxing, breaking, and cycling.