The Olympic Games have historically rejected Black athletes based on race, banned them for protesting, disqualified them for their natural physical attributes, and established a gatekeeping culture of anti-Blackness that often tries to keep their successes and credits at bay-but Black athletes have always persevered.

For summer 2028, St. Louis' Energizer Park will be a venue for Olympic soccer matches. "We love seeing, especially on game days, home game days, just the amount of people coming in and out of the store to get their gear," said Series Six's director of art and retail, Sarah Butz.

The new site, a branch of the NHL's Records page includes statistics, game-by-game results and tournament recaps from each of the five prior Winter Olympics involving NHL players -- Nagano (1998), Salt Lake City (2002), Turin (2006), Vancouver (2010) and Sochi (2014).

Two men are both Pro Football Hall of Famers and Olympic gold medalists, while the Raiders had quite the Olympic pipeline working for awhile.

Kevin Pearce was expected to be a threat at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Then a crash derailed his snowboarding career.

Here are five questions regarding the current state of each participating Big Six hockey nation ahead of the Olympics.

MILAN (AP) — Change is coming to the Olympic program of sports and events and it is going to be uncomfortable for some, IOC president Kirsty Coventry cautioned on Tuesday. In a keynote speech before her first Olympic Games as its first female leader in its 130-year history, Coventry detailed a defining theme of her presidency.

One of the torch lightings that sticks out for fans was in Barcelona in 1992 when Spanish Paralympian Antonio Rebollo was chosen for his archery skills to send a flaming arrow through the gas emitted from the cauldron to light the Olympic flame.