In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, 18-year-old Francina Elsje Koen (pronounced COON) finished fifth in the women’s 4x100-meter ...

LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Veteran Olympians reminiscing on Sunday, as London began its countdown as host of the 2012 Games, recalled a very different British Olympics 60 years ago. The 1948 London ...

Joe Birrell, who has died aged 94, was one of the last surviving British athletes to have taken part in the 1948 Olympic Games in London, and was thought to be the youngest male competitor; he later ...

LONDON — It’s been 64 years, but Lionel Price can still smell the newly pumped-up basketballs and hear the squeaky shoes on the court. His basketball uniform is still intact and he’s pretty sure he ...

After capturing the high jump for the United States at the 1948 London Games, she returned home to a segregated South.

Get latest medal count of Olympic Games 1948 including India's total medal score and winners list. Track country wise gold, silver, bronze medal count at myKhel.com.

WELLINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A good old piece of 'number eight fencing wire' helped Ngaire Galloway stay in shape on her trip to the London Olympics in 1948. Just over five weeks on a converted ...

Part of an exhibit being shown at London‘s Royal Opera House during the Olympics — called “The Olympic Journey: The Story of the Games”– is dedicated to U.S. track legend Jesse Owens. For good reason: ...

When the Olympic torch relay gets underway in France in May, keep an eye open for Charles Coste, France's oldest living Olympic champion. Coste, who will turn 100 on Feb 8, pedaled his way to glory in ...