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

Algonquin Police Chief Dennis Walker is ready to run. He’s got the distance base, having run in the last two Chicago ...

In The Smell of Sweat: Greek Athletics, Olympics, and Culture, William Blake Tyrrell (Michigan State University) takes on a broader brief. His very detailed and fully referenced discussion of the ...

Algonquin Police Chief Dennis Walker and West Chicago Police Detective Sgt. Robbi Peterson will participate in the Law ...

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 ...

Find out what events were at the ancient Olympics. What was it like to live in an ancient Greek family? What was everyday life like in ancient Greece? Find out about family life, entertainment ...

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

The past few years have seen record-breaking tourism to Greece, a red hot travel destination that is about to get even hotter ...

Instead, Greece was divided up into small city-states, like Athens, Sparta, Corinth and Olympia. Each city-state ruled itself. They had their own governments, laws and army. Someone living in ...

The Central Archaeological Council of Greece unanimously approved the restoration of the Kladios Baths in Ancient Olympia, according to Newsbomb. The approval includes the architectural preliminary ...

A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis has been sold at auction for $545,371 as part of a larger collection of ...