American Katie Ledecky, one of only two women with nine Olympic gold medals along with Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, ...

Winning an Olympic gold medal is already rare, and winning eight or more is nearly impossible. Even so, across all eras of the Games, a handful of competitors have achieved this. These athletes left ...

(WDBJ) - On this day, July 31, 2012: American swimmer Michael Phelps won his 19th Olympic medal in the 4-by-200 relay at the Summer Olympics in London. The win made him the most decorated Olympian of ...

(WKYT) - In the lead up to America turning 250 years old, we are looking back at every day in ‘This Day In History.’ On this day in U.S. history, in 2012, decorated swimmer Michael Phelps captured his ...

Simone Biles remains undecided whether her glittering, medal-filled Olympic career will have one final chapter in Los Angeles in 2028. The U.S. superstar won her ninth, 10th and 11th Olympic medals at ...

View post: How old do you need to be to bet on sports in the United States? It’s tough to find a professional athlete that had a better 2024 than U.S. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles. The 28-year-old ...

Agnes Keleti, who has died aged 103, was a Hungarian Jewish gymnast who survived the Holocaust by buying the papers of a young Christian woman and, despite missing three Olympics in her prime, won a ...

Ágnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic medalist, died on Thursday at the age of 103. Per the Hungarian state news agency (h/t Bálint Dömötör of the Associated Press), Keleti died in her hometown of ...

Emma McKeon, who owns Australian records of 14 Olympic medals and six Olympic gold medals, has retired from swimming at age 30. McKeon had said in April that Paris would be her final Olympics, but had ...

October 17 was recognized as Katie Ledecky Day by her home of Montgomery County, Maryland. The native of Bethesda made a stop home on her post-Olympics tour, meeting with students from her alma mater, ...

Editor's Note: Caeleb Dressel is No. 2 on the Times-Union's Top 100 athletes from the Jacksonville area. A Green Cove Springs native in a blue Olympic pool, Caeleb Dressel has made his Clay County ...

Simone Biles reminded the world why she is the best gymnast on Earth at the Paris Olympics. Biles took home three gold medals and a silver all while dealing with a calf injury. Biles was seen in a ...