Olympic & Paralympic Games

This, the third volume in a new series celebrating the Olympic Games, offers up a selection of photographs from the Games in Rio in 2016. Photograp...

Award-winning commentator Michael Schiavello examines the greatest sports commentators in history, the best calls ever heard, and offers stories fr...

In the early 1970s, the athletes of the German Democratic Republic started to achieve incredible sports results, winning medals and setting new wor...

The US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics left German lawyer Thomas Bach unable to defend his fencing title. Instead, he devoted the next 20 years...

Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from Americas heartland to international sports history, navigating chal...

On an April morning in 1896, unemployed single mother Stamata Revithi ran the 40 kilometers from Marathon to Athens, finishing in 5 hours 30 min...

A richly illustrated book on the career, on and off the track, of sprinting superstar Usain Bolt, from schoolboy prodigy to World and triple Olympi...

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects bu...

American photographers John Huet and David Burnett were commissioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to create a personal record ofthe...

The Olympics'' Strangest Moments recounts the bizarre, controversial, inept, heroic and plain unlucky from the first modern games in 1896 to the re...

Power; the power of the gods; the power of Greek cities; the power of the human body: all these were celebrated at the ancient Olympic Games. Ancie...

Katherine Grainger is not only Great Britain's finest ever woman rower, but also she has won more Olympic medals than any other female British athl...

It remains one of the most memorable moments in modern Olympic history. At the 1984 summer games in Los Angeles, a raucous crowd of ninety thousand...

The political tension of the Cold War bled into the Olympic Games when each side engaged in psychological warfare, exploiting sport for political e...

One second in time may separate the great athlete from the merely good. Seb Coe has made every second count. From an early age he has been driven ...