Lady Mary had to quit her teaching job to pursue athletics and was in the red at the bank when she won pentathlon gold in ...

Olympic gold medal equestrian rider Eric Lamaze has been banned from the sport until 2031 following new sanctions handed down by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Lamaze, a native of Canada ...

In 2022, Jackson made history by becoming the first Black woman to win a Winter Olympic medal in an individual sport Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

But the first Winter Olympics was more than a century ago. Surely Jackson’s gold medal, in the 500 meters at the Beijing Olympics in 2022, couldn’t have been the first by a Black woman at the ...

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif emerged victorious at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, securing a gold medal after a global firestorm of speculation around her gender. The pugilist is now facing a new ...

She was part of the 2021 summer Tokyo Olympics team that won bronze. The team has won five gold medals, which came in 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012 and this year. “We are so excited and, of course ...

gold and said, `I’m good. Peace out.' And you were just like, `No, let’s do it!'" Shiffrin said. The team combined, which is one downhill run and one slalom run, will make its Olympic debut ...

In the speed skating men's 500-meter final, Gao Tingyu, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics gold medalist in the discipline, continued his brilliant form. After a lightning-fast start and powerful ...

In her first appearance at the Olympic Games, Mitchell won a gold medal on the second-last day of Tokyo 2020, picking up the top prize in the women’s sprint event. Less than four years after initially ...