Interesting facts about Jimmy Carter’s presidency It’s a well-known fact about the U.S. presidency that it’s never an easy ...

In 1980, much like this year, Russia (or the Soviet Union to be exact) was hosting a major international sports event – the Summer Olympics. Overshadowed by the Soviet military intervention in ...

At the 1980 Lake Placid Games, Davenport and fellow bobsledder ... and the only person from any nation to win a gold medal in a Winter Olympic sport and a Summer Olympic sport. Also became a Rhodes ...

Northern Irish DJ Dean McCullough has described going into the I’m A Celeb jungle as “my worst nightmare”, with just days to ...

In nine days in February 1980 at Lake Placid, N.Y., Heiden accomplished what no Olympian had ever done -- he won five individual gold medals in a single Olympics, be it Summer or Winter.

Former boxer Barry McGuigan has said he wants to compete in I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here “before he is too old” as he ...

After 46 years (and a couple of months) of working full-time as a sportswriter, I’m retiring.

France has hosted the Summer Olympics in Paris three times ... de Janeiro (2016), China in Beijing (2008), Russia in Moscow (1980), Belgium in Antwerp (1920), Canada in Montreal (1976).

Bryn ran in the 200m and 400m races, as 1920 was a Summer Olympics. In 1924, the Winter Games began in ... A U.S. ice dance team would not land back on the podium for 30 years. 1980: Lake Placid ...

Kraken defenseman and avid history buff Jamie Oleksiak has taken quite well to new pairing partner Brandon Montour and is off to one of the better starts of his career ...

In 1980, she becomes the first driver to win ... two gold medals and one silver in track and field events at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She later wins 41 events in a golf career that ...

Emblem of the 1988 Summer Olympics (Games of the XXIV Olympiad) The emblem was designed based on the triple taegeuk, a ...