Just a few years before the outbreak of WWII, the Olympic Games in Berlin were a way for Hitler to illustrate the supremacy of the Nazi regime. Jesse Owens, the grandson of slaves, won four gold ...

These days it's Mark Spitz who has to worry about swimming with the sharks. He's hoping his new Missoula Aquatic Club swim cap will help out with that. At 58, Spitz - whose nickname was "The Shark," ...

With the kickoff of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro imminent, the time was right to pull out this groovy 1972 portrait from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. It shows the ...