Flag football is a variant of American football (or gridiron) where the aim is to advance up the pitch via a series of offensive plays into the opposition’s defensive endzone. It is a no-contact sport ...

The legend of international women's hockey has been honoured for her outstanding career in her hometown of Rosario, Argentina ...

At Lake Placid 1980, Boucher won his first Olympic medal, earning silver in the men’s 1,000m. But it was at Sarajevo 1984 that Boucher became a household name. He claimed gold in the men’s 1000m and ...

In the centre of a white background, five rings interlaced: blue, yellow, black, green and red. The Olympic flag was created for the Olympic Jubilee Congress in 1914 in Paris in celebration of the ...

India sent a contingent of 73 athletes in 14 sports to Athens. The first Olympic Games in the new millennia were held in ... How many rings are featured on the Olympic flag? There are five rings on ...

Michael Phelps on Sunday called on the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee ... 2004 after Phelps won a gold medal in that year’s Athens Olympics. Once the games were over, Phelps ...

Athletes from Special Olympics Hellas were the first to sing the New Year’s Eve carols to Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis ...

It was another turbulent year from start to end, dominated by wars still raging in Ukraine and the Middle East. But 2024 also ...

Twenty years ago, Sir Chris - or just Chris Hoy as he was then - won the first of his six gold medals at the Athens Olympics. Over his glittering cycling career he won pretty much everything and ...

Had it not been for a vat of coconut oil and his flair for flag bearing, he could have passed through the Olympic Games unnoticed and unreported. As it was he went rogue, disobeying officials who ...