Brazil's first Winter Olympics gold is about much more than the medal

With Brazil entering the joyous throes of Carnival, Alpine ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on Saturday gave it another ...

MME brings home winners from first Winter Olympics

Mission Mountain Empowerment athletes, who call themselves the Mission Mountain Grizzlies, attended their first Special Winter Olympics on the slopes and brought home multiple medals after years of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Rare Silver Medal From the First Modern Olympic Games in 1896 Just Sold at Auction

At the time, athletes received silver medals for winning first place. The Olympics didn't introduce gold medals until 1904 ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

First Olympics a stress test for IOC head

MILAN -- The first female president in the International Olympic Committee's 132 years got a proper stress test in the first games of her history-making leadership. Kirsty Coventry was widely seen as ...