Olympic Games

Since the first modern Olympics were held in Athens in 1896, the Games have been staged in countries with vastly different climates, economies and sporting traditions.

April 11, (THEWILL) - Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics announcing on Wednesday that it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris. The move represents...

February 08, (THEWILL) - Japanese prosecutors have made four arrests in connection with allegations of bid rigging for contracts related to test events before the Olympics. Yasuo Mori, a Tokyo 2020 Operations Executive, has been arrested and had his...

January 16, (THEWILL) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Warner Bros. Discovery have been awarded all media rights for the four Olympic Games in the 2026-2032 period in Europe. The EBU...

January 15, (THEWILL) – Sweden’s Klas Lestander, the first Olympic gold medallist in biathlon, has passed away at the age of 91. Lestander won the only biathlon event at the 1960 Squaw Valley Games, the men’s 20 km individual event, with...

Sports can be a lucrative profession, with many professional athletes earning significant sums of money. It is even more so today, especially in sports such as football, where a player like Cristiano Ronaldo will be earning as much as...