Former Olympic athletes lit a commemorative cauldron Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Games in Mexico City, a symbol of a worldwide year of turbulent times. In a year of revolt and ...

Dick Fosbury’s high jump gold medal from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics — which he won with the revolutionary Fosbury Flop — sold at auction for $158,600. The medal was one of a few Fosbury items ...

Jaipur: Former India hockey international star Gurbax Singh Grewal passed away in Zirakpur, Chandigarh on Friday. Grewal was a member of the national hockey team that won a bronze medal at the 1968 ...

The country of Mexico has had a long history with the modern Olympic Games going back to Olympiad II in Paris in 1900. I choose to honor Mexico this week as I happen to be traveling through this ...

The 1968 Mexico Olympics marked the occasion when the world fell in love with Kipchoge Hezekiah 'Kip' Keino. Born on January 17, 1940, the then 28-year-old uncoached athlete from Nandi County crafted ...

Introduction : the exhibitionist state -- Diplomatic spectacles : Mexico displays itself at World's Fairs -- Archaeologies of power : assembling the Museo Nacional de Antropología -- Image machines : ...