If you love travel and sports, attending the Olympic Games is a bucket list experience. If you can’t do that, visiting a host ...

Olympic Games list Athens 1896 - where it all began 1,500 years after the end of the ancient Olympics, the modern Olympic Games we know and love today were born. It was organised by the ...

Oxford’s researchers say the risk for host cities is huge. “Our study has established that all Olympic Games experienced high cost overrun, averaging 172%,” they said. “Our new findings ...

So when residents in the Canadian city of Calgary voted on whether to bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics last week, you might have expected an enthusiastic thumbs-up. But instead their verdict ...

The Olympics are a terrible investment and a huge risk for the host city. Following is a transcript of the video. Cities pay billions of dollars to host the Olympics. But is it worth it?

And most viewers don't even see the lasting damage hosting the games does to the host city. Could we be watching the death of the Olympics? Well, right now it's hard to tell, but this honored ...

Paris and Los Angeles have been officially named as the sites for the 2024 and 2028 summer Olympic Games. But the announcement has come against the backdrop of more corruption and cost concerns ...

Beyond the Olympics, the organizers of other international ... should take immediate steps to include a nondiscrimination clause in their host city contracts, Human Rights Watch said.

The new text requires the host city, National Olympic Committee (NOC) and Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (OCOG) to "take all necessary measures to ensure that development projects ...

The bid has drawn polarised reactions, with critics calling it a vanity project that may not justify the huge cost. Read more ...

India has officially shown interest in hosting the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games through the Indian Olympic Association ...