Winning an Olympic gold medal is already rare, and winning eight or more is nearly impossible. Even so, across all eras of the Games, a handful of competitors have achieved this. These athletes left ...

Katie Ledecky has won her ninth career Olympic gold medal on the penultimate night of swimming action here at Paris 2024. That's the ninth Olympic gold medal of Katie Ledecky's career. She ties Soviet ...

LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - When Larisa Latynina became the most decorated Olympian of all time at the 1964 Tokyo Games, having bowed her head 18 times over the course of three Games as medals were ...

Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina is filled with a mixed sense of wonder and trepidation when she watches the gravity-defying and often treacherous routines of Simone Biles as the American set out to ...