PARIS, France — The Paris Olympics are putting on an Opening Ceremony on Friday unlike any we've seen before, highlighted by Olympic nation contingents riding on boats down the River Seine to be ...

The International Olympic Committee says former vice president Lambis Nikolaou of Greece has died. He was 89. Nikolaou helped ...

Greece handed over the Olympic flame to the organizers of the Paris 2024 Games in a solemn ceremony in Athens on Friday. The event took place in the Panathenaic Stadium, built entirely of marble, ...

Giannis Antetokounmpo accomplished another important career goal on Sunday, leading his home country to its first Olympic Games in men's basketball since 2008. After a tight first half, Greece ...

Kouvelos came to Annenberg Hall on Friday to give the first lecture of the Olympic Ideals Series, co-hosted by the USC Center ...

MORE AHEAD ON 12 NEWS AT FIVE. KRISTEN PATRICK, WE’LL SEE YOU THEN. THANK YOU. JANIS WILL BE ONE OF TWO FLAG BEARERS FOR GREECE AT THE OPENING CEREMONIES FOR THE PARIS OLYMPICS. IN ABOUT TWO WEEKS.

April 16 (UPI) --A symbolic lighting of the Olympic torch early Tuesday in Olympia, Greece, heralded the coming of the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer. The ceremony at the site of the stadium where ...

Book V of Vergil’s Aeneid is set in Drepanum, Sicily on the anniversary of the death of Anchises, father of Aeneas, the Trojan ancestor of ancient Rome. The athletics theme of Book V, however, has ...

Piraeus, Greece--Giannis Antetokounmpo is now an Olympian. Antetokounmpo is heading to the Olympics for the first time, after he scored 23 points and Greece held off Croatia 80-69 on Sunday in one of ...

A German woman who stole the top of an ancient Greek column more than half a century ago has returned it to Greece — ending a ...

The Greek Ministry of Culture praised the woman's 'sensitivity' and 'courage' during a repatriation ceremony at the site of ...