London wants to be the first city to host an Olympics four times. The United Kingdom capital is poised to bid again after hosting the Summer Games in 1908, 1948 and, most recently, in 2012. Now London ...

Sadiq Khan wants London to bid for the 2040 Olympics and insists the capital can host the Games ‘brilliantly’ and ‘very cheaply’. London 2012 proved to be a monumental success and Khan, Mayor of ...

LONDON — With a little British pomp and a lot of British pop, London brought the curtain down on a glorious Olympic Games on Sunday in a spectacular, technicolor pageant of landmarks, lightshows and ...

On Oct. 2, 2009, the entire country of Brazil threw a party. After a bidding process that lasted more than two years, the International Olympic Committee announced that Rio de Janeiro had won the ...

The 2012 London Olympics Games serve as a cautionary tale for local communities in host cities—a new study warns. The study by the University of Portsmouth analyzed 20 years of data, from 2001 to 2022 ...

Get latest medal count of Olympic Games 1948 including India's total medal score and winners list. Track country wise gold, silver, bronze medal count at myKhel.com.

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 27: The Olympic Cauldron is lit during the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on July 27, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Roger Sedres / ...

The BBC delivered its most successful online event ever, which attracted a record-breaking 55m global browsers to BBC Sport ...

The 1908 Olympics were originally set to take place in Rome, Italy, before Mount Vesuvius devastated the southern city of Naples. Once it became clear the capital couldn't host the Games due to the ...

More than 217 Million Watch 2012 London Olympics, Surpassing the 215 Million from the 2008 Beijing Olympics Olympic Halo Effect; NBC’s London Success Lifts Viewership Across NBCUniversal Platforms NBC ...