Jill Makinson-Sanders is the mayor of Louth, Lincolnshire, England. When the Olympic torch relay made its way through her town, she attended the event not in the traditional ceremonial garb of a mayor, but in an 8-foot-t...

Imagine that the dream you've nurtured for a lifet...  ...e of them can be in the top three and race in the Olympics , they will have to break the tie one way or anoth...

You know how hard it is to travel to other places, especially overseas, with luggage. Imagine you have to travel with sports equipment. Now imagine that equipment is your 17-foot-long vaulting pole. Olympic pole vault ho...

(YouTube link) If there was anyone who forgot t...  ...e emotional ad campaigns leading up to the London Olympics have already started. This Mother's Day ad from P...

Dutch athlete Monique van der Vorst became paralyz...  ...d athlete, and is training to compete in the 2016 Olympics

Here are Wenlock and Mandeville, the mascots for...  ...Wenlock and Mandeville, the mascots for the 2012 Olympics in London, England. Wenlock will represent the Ol...

This chart from the utility company EPCOR contrasts water consumption in Edmonton, Alberta on two different days. February 27th is charted to show a normal day. February 28th was the day Canada won the Olympic gold medal...

(YouTube link) Designer Steven Heller gives an overview and critique of Olympic pictograms used over the past 74 years for the New York Times. When you only see these every few years, you don't realize how different t...

The final day of the Winter Olympics this Sunday has only two events: the gold medal m...  ...t Olympian ever to participate in both the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in the same year. McKeever is leg...

All athletes are ecstatic over winning a gold meda...  ...tes are ecstatic over winning a gold medal at the Olympics . But how about second and third place winners? It...