The Greeks did not invent wrestling but they did bring it to a whole new level. They made it into an art form with their ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Wrestling's reclamation of a spot in the 2020 Olympic Games represented a victory for Greece, according to the country's federation president Kostas Thanos. Grapplers across the ...

ATHENS, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Greece on Thursday held the Olympic flame handover ceremony for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games at the historic Panathenaic Stadium in Athens.

Olympic gold medalist Henry Cejudo was silent on the other end of the phone line — shocked, really, beyond belief. He was about to head to church near his home in the Phoenix area Tuesday morning when ...

In a move that seems to defy it's own motto of "Faster, Higher, Stronger," the International Olympic Committee recommended today that one of its original sports—wrestling—be dropped from the Summer ...

U.S. wrestler Alan Vera died Monday night after suffering sudden cardiac arrest during a soccer game earlier this year, according to a statement from USA Wrestling. He was 33. A fixture on the ...

After making a mess of things, the International Olympic Committee finally got it right. Wrestling is back. In an inexplicable move earlier this year, the IOC’s executive board cut wrestling from the ...

ROME (AP) — The Olympic flame for the Milan Cortina Winter Games landed in Rome on Thursday following a handover in Greece.

The flame was carried into the stadium by world wrestling champion Georgios Kougioumtsidis, who then passed it to Italy's Olympic champion Jasmine Paolini and cyclist Filippo Ganna, symbolizing the ...