At 19, Peggy Fleming won the only U.S. gold at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France – seven years after a plane crash killed her coach and the entire U.S. figure skating team. Her flawless ...

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 ...

The director of "Fists of Freedom," a documentary about Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, says the reaction to Olympians speaking out has some similarities and differences to 1968.

Pacifico Professor of Neuropsychology and Athletic Director Emeritus Eric Zillmer, PsyD, shared his expertise about past and present Olympics, as shaped by his mother's and sister's Olympic ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. In many recent articles and conversations concerning NFL players kneeling during the ...

A year before turning pro, 19-year-old George Foreman won a boxing gold medal at the 1968 Summer Games. A year before turning pro, 19-year-old George Foreman won a boxing gold medal at the 1968 Summer ...

The iconic photograph of two Black athletes standing on the podium at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, heads bowed and fists raised in the Black Power Salute as “The Star-Spangled Banner” played ...

Laura and Daniel Hall learned to skate with the Salmon Arm Ice Breakers, a club founded by their Olympian dad and Marcia ...