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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - In front of the Eiffel Tower on Friday, Aug. 9 in Paris, former K-State track athlete, Erik Kynard, received his gold medal in a reallocation ceremony for his performance at ...

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has said that he wants the English capital to bid to host the 2040 Summer Olympic Games. London previously hosted the Olympics in 1908, 1848 and 2012. Another successful bid ...

The 1908 Olympics were originally set to take place in Rome, Italy, before Mount Vesuvius devastated the southern city of Naples. Once it became clear the capital couldn't host the Games due to the ...

For Shannon Rowbury, it was simultaneously one of the best and worst moments of her running career. Part of her was thrilled and exhilarated to be competing in the finals of a second Olympic Games, ...

Bidding for the 2036 Summer Olympics is open, and a mayoral-led collaboration - 'The Great North' - want any future UK-based ...

LONDON (Reuters) - This summer's Olympics games in Britain's capital generated 28 percent less carbon dioxide emissions than was forecast as energy use at venues was cut, the London Organizing ...

Politicians urge the government for any future UK Olympic to be based in the north of England.

Well aware it would be a tough slog to match Beijing in terms of glitz and sheer spectacle, filmmaker Danny Boyle has decided to keep it real during the London Olympic opening ceremony. Boyle, the ...

An online petition seeking a new logo already has more than 30,000 signatures. June 5, 2007 — -- Unveiled with aplomb Monday in North London to an audience of more than 700 Olympic stakeholders ...

It was the first gold medal of the London Olympics, and Nur Suryani Mohd Taibi was off by a long shot. On Saturday, the Malaysian markswoman placed 34th out of a field of 56 in the 10-m air-rifle ...