During its heyday, the area around Portland Port was bustling with activity Their roles as hosts of the 2012 Olympics should have put Weymouth and ... World Heritage Site, the area never recovered ...

Image Credit: Dominique Perrault Architecte Here, on a 51-hectare former industrial site, the Olympics has been an ...

After the final athletes and spectators had departed the grounds of the 2012 London Games, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park began its transformation into a legacy project to deliver housing, parkland ...

SIR CHRIS HOY has created an Olympic legacy that would be the envy of any athlete in a glittering career. Sir Chris revealed on Saturday that he has been given just four years to live in a ...

The Organising Committee of the Paris 2024 Games delivered on Thursday to Notre Dame Cathedral the bell that had been at the Stade de France during the athletics trials of the Olympics.

The Downers Grove South graduate refused to eat or drink anything except for a stale slice of vanilla cake her cousin gave her six days earlier when Franklin left for the Olympics. She watched a ...

Tokyo 1964: Designing Tomorrow brings together an array of artefacts from the 1964 Games, as a way of exploring their creative and technological legacy, as well as the event’s impact on ideas around ...

As the one-year-to-go celebrations for the 2016 Olympics draw near, the city of Rio de Janeiro outlined their Olympic legacy plan to ... leading to a live site in the park. The Deodoro Complex ...

The individual diving events at the Olympics consist of three rounds: preliminary, semifinal and final. The preliminary round trims the field of divers to 18, which is then reduced to 12 after the ...

How do you score in Olympic handball? A team scores in Olympic handball by throwing the ball into the opponent's goal. A goal is worth one point. How long can you have possession in Olympic handball?

The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin this week at 35 venues ... 1682 and became the epicentre of French royalty. In 1883, the site became a national museum open to the public and was the first ...

"They're designed to deliver an edition of the games that can be held up as an inspiring example and leave an enduring legacy," Tony Estanguet, president of the 2024 Olympics, wrote in the ...