A local athlete is one game away from Olympic gold as the U.S. women’s hockey team prepares for Thursday’s championship match at the Winter Olympics in Italy.

Olympic medals look like the simplest part of the Games: shiny circles, three colors, quick photo, move on. However, history refused to keep things that tidy. The most basic idea of what a medal is ...

A silver medal from the 1896 first modern Olympic Games, held in Athens, is set to make history in the auction room.

FILE - Lambis Nikolaou, head of the Greek Olympic Committee, right, hands the Olympic Flame to Mitt Romney, head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, at the Panathenian stadium in Athens on Dec. 3, ...

Team USA women's hockey is making waves at the Winter Olympics in Italy, playing in the semifinals on Monday against Sweden, and Gwyneth Philips, a goalie from Athens, Ohio, has been instrumental to ...

The Olympic medal ribbons are dark blue. The Paralympic medal ribbons are a deep red, which is a combination of the first two paint coats that were used on the Eiffel Tower, according to the website ...

(AP) Eight years after winning Olympic medals in Athens, four track and field athletes from eastern Europe were ordered to hand them back Wednesday because of positive doping tests. Lance Armstrong, ...

Monmouth College chef Kim Fornero looks back on cooking for broadcasters and journalists at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Lambis Nikolaou, a former International Olympic Committee vice president who helped to organize the 2004 Athens Summer Games, has died. He was 89. Nikolaou was an IOC ...