National Geographic talked with Tony Perrotet, aut...  ...ic talked with Tony Perrotet, author of The Naked Olympics : The True Story of the Ancient Games about how th...  ...Story of the Ancient Games about how the ancient Olympics compares with the modern version. The Olympic Ga...  ...edible aura of traditio...

You cannot broadcast any part of the Olympic G...  ...unless you are NBC. You can't even say the word " Olympics ," so I expect to get a nasty email from the IOC a...

Photo: Men's Synchronized Swimming from Harry Shearer: Now You See It - via VideoSift Despite all the talk about gender equality, there are still glaring examples of gender discrimination at the Olympic Games. Take, for...

Finally! Events we can all participate in ...although not all of us would excel. From The Joy of Tech. Link...

Watch highlights of the USA's first basketball g...  ...of the USA's first basketball game of the London Olympics

How do you get horses for the Olympic equestrian events to London? Believe it or not, you ship them by Fed Ex! Getting the animals overseas wasn't as big a task as you might think. All it took was a little help from Fed...

The following is reprinted from the book Uncle...  ...k Uncle John's Unsinkable Bathroom Reader. The Olympics can turn an unknown athlete into an international...  ...) Story: Spitz won two gold medals in the 1968 Olympics , but going into the 1972 Games, he told a reporte...  ...2 he attempted to make the...

As you watch the glitzy coverage o...  ...you watch the glitzy coverage of the London 2012 Olympics , perhaps you pine for simpler times....

The hottest thing in London is the Olympic Flame....  ...of those older, rarer torch designs from previous Olympics

They're everywhere you look, but if you are si...  ...e everywhere you look, but if you are sick of the Olympics already, there's an app for that! Actually, Olwim...