Gert Frank won an Olympic bronze medal in the team time trial at the 1976 Montréal Olympics, although he was actually better known in his native Denmark as a track racer. He turned pro after the ...

You In-Tak had the following finishes at major championships – 1981 World Championship: 68.0 kg. Freestyle (6th); 1982 Asian Games: 68.0 kg. Freestyle (3rd).

The Italian teenage sensation reveals how skiing and art allow her to express herself and how she deals with the pressure of expectation ahead of her home Winter Games.

Harry Glancy was attending Mercersburg Academy when he swam on the relay team which took the gold medals at the Paris Olympics. Glancy, who later competed for the Penn AC, won two AAU freestyle titles ...

This piece is about the strength and power of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic ideals and values, and the Movement’s creativity in overcoming adversity, succeeding, and ultimately thriving. The ...

John Hanlon won the 220y and 440y at the 1929 AAA Championships, a feat which has not since been duplicated. He was also a finalist in the 220y (1930-31) and 440 (1928, 1930) and was a member of the ...

Harry Jerome's grandfather, Army Howard, had been Canada's top sprinter in the 1910s, but Jerome's athletic prowess would eventually grow to eclipse that of his predecessor. Jerome took up track at ...

Takuya Kimura, a switch-hitting leftfielder and utility player, played for Japan in two games at the 2004 Olympics. Kimura had a long career in the Japan Central League, joining the Nippon Ham ...

Klaus Glahn was by far West Germany’s best judoka in the 1960s and 1970s. He won a 1964 bronze medal team in the open class at the first Olympic appearance of judo, competing for the mixed German, and ...

He finished second in the 1960 Olympic bantamweight class and then won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games as a featherweight. He participated again in the Games in Munich in 1972, ...

István Tatár ran for Hungary in the 4x100 metre relay at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, with the team finishing eighth in the final. He competed at both the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, running the 100 metres ...

Samiya Omar bravely fought discrimination as a Muslim woman who tried to compete in athletics. After the 2008 Olympics she faced death threats and intimidation when she returned to Somalia. She moved ...