The platform used by men and women at the Olympics is a flat, rigid, non-slip surface elevated 10 meters (roughly 32 feet, 9 1/2 inches) above the water. The height is comparable to that of a ...

Team USA Basketball honors the history of the sport on the Olympic stage with a special celebration. Check out the players expected to suit up for USA, Canada, Australia and other countries during ...

In 1971, NASA’s Mariner 9 spacecraft confirmed the feature’s immense size and named it Olympus Mons, meaning Mount Olympus in ...

Kazan, Russia, which has hosted a World Cup and World Swimming Championship in the past, will host the Special Olympics World Winter Games in 2022. How WWE superstar Becky Lynch found a way to top ...

If the incident occurs before the end of the first round, the bout will be terminated and rescheduled. Can you knock an opponent out in Olympic boxing? Yes, a boxer can win a bout by knocking out ...

The body of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei -- who died after being set on fire by her partner in Kenya -- was received Friday by family and anti-femicide crusaders, ahead of her burial ...

The Paris Olympics track is purple. Thank France’s lavender fields. The Paris mayor wants the Olympic logo to stay on the monument. Gustave Eiffel’s descendants say the tower shouldn’t be a ...

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FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi -- Filipina-Japanese judoka Kiyomi Watanabe, who will represent the Philippines at the Paris Olympics, recently visited this east Japan city where she was partly raised ...

Mexico's Aranza Vazquez Montana scores no points after performing a "disastrous dive" which ends her hopes in the women's 3m springboard competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Up Next.

Seven people have been charged with a cyber bullying campaign targeting Thomas Jolly, the artistic director behind the Paris Olympics' opening and closing ceremonies, French authorities say.