The IOC presidential election on Thursday takes place in a political climate that seems a world away from the last contested ...

One of the strong candidates to win the IOC's presidential election next week says meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump ...

Highlights of the 2024 edition included interactive lessons on the Olympic Truce, visits by Olympic and Paralympic athletes to different schools, and afternoon sports sessions where pupils could ...

The main event of the ancient games was the pentathlon. The Olympic Truce was established in Ancient Greece with the signing of a treaty between three kings. The truce prohibited combat between ...

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The full effects were not immediately clear, but the arid territory's desalination plants receive power for producing ...

Then in 1979, the unthinkable happened when the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan in violation of the Olympic truce of no war during the Games. With Moscow hosting the 1980 Olympics, United States ...

In October 2011, 193 UN Member nations stopped to observe the Olympic Truce individually and collectively for six weeks, starting with the opening of the XXX Olympiad this Saturday, 27 July, and ...

Vice President Mike Pence will be attending the opening of the Olympics in Seoul. Send VP Pence a message urging the US to stop provocative war “exercises” during this period, and to continue the ...