Flatwater canoeist Erich Hanisch and his partner Willi Horn qualified for the K-2 over 1,000 metres for the 1936 Berlin Olympics as the German Champions, which they had won for the fifth year in a row ...

This piece is about the strength and power of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic ideals and values, and the Movement’s creativity in overcoming adversity, succeeding, and ultimately thriving. The ...

American sculptor, author and illustrator Dudley Talcott studied in Paris and New York. After World War II, he made extensive study trips to Greenland, after having made visits to the Norwegian fjords ...

Dorothy Dalton was from the Chicago Turnverein in 1948. She trained at night and worked during the days as a secretary with the Westinghouse Corp. She was never able to win an individual National ...

The Italian teenage sensation reveals how skiing and art allow her to express herself and how she deals with the pressure of expectation ahead of her home Winter Games.

Karen Cashman started skating at the Commonwealth Figure Skating Club of Randolph, Massachusetts, twice winning the New England Junior title in figure skating. She also ran varsity track at North ...

Rick Colella graduated from the University of Washington and later competed for the Totem Lake SC. He won the 200m breaststroke at the 1971 Pan-Am Games and both the breaststroke events at the 1975 ...

Rudolf Edinger had the following podium finishes at major championships: 1st in the 1923 World Championships Lightweight class (360.0 kg). He set two middleweight world records in the press in 1926 ...

Claude Richer took up cross country skiing in the 1940s and was the winner of the Central Canada junior ski championships in 1949. He began to garner national attention as a senior in 1951, when he ...

Clyde Scott of the University of Arkansas beat Bill Porter to take the 1948 NCAA 110m hurdles, but Porter won all their subsequent meetings that year, including the Olympic final. Scott graduated from ...

Colleen Mulvihill was coached by her father, Dick Mulvihill, one of the best known gymnastic coaches in the US in the 1960s. She attended Centennial High School in Illinois, graduating in 1970, and ...

Despite recent economic achievements, Cambodia remains one of the poorest countries in Asia, and over half of the population is under 25 years old. The non-profit organisation Skateistan operating in ...