When Tracy Fleury (Sudbury, Ont.) and Brad Jacobs (Sault St. Marie, Ont.) step into the hack for Canada in Cortina d’Ampezzo, they unknowingly pay homage to Sam Rothschild. Inducted into the Canadian ...

The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome were fraught with change and significance. It was a time of racial struggle in the United States. The Cold War between the USSR and the United States was heating up.

The VIII Winter Olympic Games were held Feb. 18-28, 1960, at Squaw Valley, California, now called Olympic Valley. They are regarded as among the best Olympic Games ever held. Just as Vice President ...

Otis Davis, an Olympic 400m and 4x400m gold medalist in 1960, died Saturday at age 92, according to the University of Oregon, his alma mater, and World Athletics. At the 1960 Rome Games, Davis won the ...

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The Olympic decathlon, consisting of 10 track and field events, is spread over two grueling days with five events each day. The Olympic champion is traditionally given the title “World’s Greatest ...

Otis Davis, a runner who won two gold medals at the Rome Olympics in 1960, including a dramatic photo finish victory in world record time in the 400 meters, died Sept. 14 in hospice care in North ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, has died. He was 86. Family friend Michael Roth says Johnson ...