Unless some very creative cyclists manage to cheat, there will be no motors in the 2024 Paris Olympics. When Paris hosted the games in 1900, however, it included one of the most dangerous and exciting ...

The Olympics has hosted its fair share of quirky, wild events. Live pigeon shooting or obstacle course swimming, anyone? Coincidentally, some of the most curious sports to be given Olympic status ...

It may seem hard to believe given the absence of heavier-than-air flight and five U.S. states, but sports were around in 1900. The Brooklyn Superbas (today's Los Angeles Dodgers) won the National ...

The history of Olympic golf is at least a little bizarre even when you look at just the modern iteration—between the Zika virus that kept some top players away from Rio in 2016 (or at least gave them ...