The seven candidates for the world's most powerful job in global sport -- the presidency of the International Olympic ...

When the IOC's 100-plus members, who include billionaires, global captains of industry, federation chiefs and royalty, go to ...

Dr Judith Swaddling is an Assistant Keeper in the Greek and Roman Department at the ... a guide to both the games and the site of ancient Olympia. She acted as consultant for a documentary video ...

Costas Simitis, who has died aged 88, was the prime minister who bolstered Greece’s self-esteem by taking it into the ...

A taste of the suffering to come had already been evident in 2005, when the European Commission put Greece under fiscal monitoring after the state had spent more than €9 billion on the Olympics ...

Celtic winger Luis Palma has completed a medical pending of a loan move to Olympiakos, with the 25-year-old Honduras ...

But were the Greek Olympics actually influenced by the existence of a very similar tournament in Ireland, created centuries before? Some have claimed that the Tailteann Games in ancient Ireland ...

Players of the Greek national women's water polo team were cheered on by a full house at the municipal swimming pool in ...