The early days of the Milan Cortina Games have been roiled by the tumultuous political debate in the U.S. American athletes ...

The director of "Fists of Freedom," a documentary about Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, says the reaction to ...

In honor of Tina and Milo making their mascot debuts, here's a look back at all the mascots in Olympics history.

A new sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum pays tribute to one of the most iconic moments in Olympic history. Inspired by U.S. sprinter Tommie Smith, who with John Carlos raised his fist ...

At 19, Peggy Fleming won the only U.S. gold at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France – seven years after a plane crash ...

Dick Fosbury's high jump gold medal from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics — which he won with the revolutionary Fosbury Flop — sold at auction for $158,600. The medal was one of a few Fosbury items ...

The iconic photograph of two Black athletes standing on the podium at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, heads bowed and fists raised in the Black Power Salute as “The Star-Spangled Banner” played ...