More than 50 years before the first Paralympic Games were held in 1960 in Rome, the Vatican had already hosted what might have been the very first international sporting and gymnastics event with ...

She won three gold medals as a sprinter in the Games, an achievement that seemed unlikely given her poor health as a child.

In a landscape where women are so often codified as either the saint or the bitch, a female antihero is one who understands ...

In 1948, Coachman became the first Black woman ever to win an Olympic gold medal. Gibson became the first Black woman to play in the U.S. Women's Open in 1963. Rudolph made history at the 1960 Olympic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There isn’t a single avenue where Black women haven’t made history. Even if they haven’t seen representation of their goals being ...

Legendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," brings his insight and humor to readers each Wednesday. This week is a look back ...

A version of this column first appeared in the Reno Gazette Journal on March 3, 2002. Stories assessing the economic impact of the Olympics and surrounding areas appear following each new edition of ...

A British trampolining champion is celebrating after winning his newest gold medals at the age of 91. Great-grandfather Peter Quinney AFM (Air Force Medal), from Melksham in Wiltshire, still coaches a ...

Nordic Combined is the only sport at any Olympic Games — summer and winter — that does not have an event for women. It's an omission that is putting the entire future of the sport at risk.

Penny Pitou, a skier from Gilford, New Hampshire, made history at the 1960 Winter Olympics by becoming the first American to medal in the Olympic downhill event, capturing two silver medals.

MILAN — To anyone at Gymnastics World in Brecksville who knew Kyra Dossa as a talented gymnast when she was a youngster, they probably would not have been surprised if you told them that many years ...

Dorothy Hyman, Wilma Rudolph and Giuseppina Leone shake hands while standing on the podium at the 1960 Olympics. U.S. swimmer ...