Securing 49 out of 97 votes, Kirsty Coventry won a decisive victory over Spanish IOC vice-president Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr ...

Seven-time Olympic medallist Kirsty Coventry broke new ground when she was elected the 10th president of the International ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, and the 10th ...

The slow-burn race for the most powerful job in world sport roared into life on Wednesday, set against the dazzling backdrop ...

Seven candidates in the IOC presidential election came to the most sacred Olympic site two days before the contest Thursday ...

After an electoral race that began last September, when the names of the seven candidates were announced, the election of the new president of the ...

Evangelos Zappas was born in 1800 in Lambovo, Epirus, in a time of turbulence and change. He was a child of a Greece that was ...

The Olympic Games, a festival in honour of Zeus, god of Olympus (a mountain 150 miles away in northern Greece), were abolished with the advent of Christianity in AD 393. In his beautifully written ...

For these avid travellers, Olympia in Greece has been singled out as an ideal spot to visit during the off-season, offering milder weather and fewer tourists. Olympia, where temperatures reach a ...

The first ever modern Olympics was held in Athens, Greece, back in 1896. It has since grown into a much sought-after event with countries clamouring to get the chance to host it. Cities such as ...

The state-sponsored doping scandal, which erupted in the wake of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, had already ... president at the 144th IOC Session in Greece from 18 to 21 March.

The strike is being held by unions to mark the second anniversary of the Tempi rail crash in Greece which led to the death of 57 people. Unions say they are “seeking justice” for these victims. All ...