As a relatively slow runner, I've always wondered: How long is too long to take when running a marathon? If Shizo Kanakuri's story is anything to go by, the limit does not exist: It took him 54 years, ...

What if your Olympic poster was so controversial that countries labeled it “immoral” and some forbade it altogether in public places. That is exactly what happened to Stockholm, Sweden in 1912, host ...

In June 1912, the Bhoys took part in a Scandinavian tour, playing a series of friendlies in Denmark and Norway. On 29 May, Celtic’s squad took the train from Glasgow to Hull, where they travelled on ...

Considered to be one of the greatest athletes of all time, Jim Thorpe is getting his gold medals back after he was stripped of them in 1913. The International Olympic Committee announced on Friday ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals ...