At two o'clock in the afternoon the 60,000-strong crowd began to make their way the Panathenaic Stadium, the venue for the Opening Ceremony and the track and field programme. Originally built in 330BC ...

IAN HERBERT AT THE STADE DE FRANCE: The stadium illuminated by such brilliance these past weeks was cast into darkness as the Olympics closing ... Even the British Olympic Association's chief ...

Thanks to the concerted efforts of Paris 2024, the City of Paris, the French government, the IOC and the CNOSF, the Opening Ceremony is being remade anew. For the first time in the history of the ...

Rare 50p with hidden defect is worth £1,500 and was only minted in 2011 ...

LeBron is the first basketball player in history to be the American flag-bearer of the Olympics opening ceremony ... By the time the 2012 Summer Olympics started in London, James was just coming ...

WTT Contender Lagos The Indian Olympic Association sent the nation\'s largest delegation that the country has seen to date, to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Around eighty three athletes were ...

Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, declared the opening of both the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics. Emperor Emeritus Akihito officially opened the ...

The opening ceremony of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is set to take place on either February 16 or 17, with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confident that Indian captain Rohit Sharma will attend ...

Claire van Kampen has sadly died at the age of 71 after a courageous battle with cancer – on the birthday of her husband Sir ...

Queen Camilla was a star hostess this evening as she met Team GB stars at Clarence House in London - and showed her emotional ...