The country of Mexico has had a long history with the modern Olympic Games going back to Olympiad II in Paris in 1900. I choose to honor Mexico this week as I happen to be traveling through this ...

On Oct. 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos made a powerful statement on the podium after the 200-meter dash in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Smith won the gold medal after winning in 19 ...

The iconic photograph of two Black athletes standing on the podium at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, heads bowed and fists raised in the Black Power Salute as “The Star-Spangled Banner” played ...

Dick Fosbury's high jump gold medal from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics — which he won with the revolutionary Fosbury Flop — sold at auction for $158,600. The medal was one of a few Fosbury items ...

"Anything for my friend Ronnie." Those were the words the late George Foreman used to sum up the relationship he developed with a fellow Olympic gold medalist Ronnie Harris of Canton. Foreman and I ...

Former Indian men's hockey team player Gurbax Singh Grewal, a member of the bronze medal-winning squad at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, passed away on Friday evening at the age of 84 following a ...

Overview of the Palacio de los Deportes in the urban context. Image © ProtoplasmaKid via Wikipedia under license CC BY-SA 4.0 Aerial view of Palacio de los Deportes ...