Saturday's 1-0 victory gave the American women their fifth Olympic gold medal. It was the end of a long drought for the U.S. team, which had not won an Olympic gold medal since 2012 in London.
Karolyi was born in what is now Romania in 1942, and rose quickly through the Romanian dictatorship's coaching ranks. In 1976, he coached Nadia Comaneci to three gold medals at the Summer Olympics in ...
Credit: AP/Sang Tan The women's 1,500 final from the 2012 Olympics ranks among the most tainted events in Olympic history following more than a decade of doping revelations and legal battles.
With the addition of women’s boxing to the Olympic programme, the 2012 Games in London were the first in which women competed in all the sports on the programme. Since 1991, any new sport seeking to ...
The 2012 London Olympics Games serve as a cautionary tale for local communities in host cities—a new study warns. The study by the University of Portsmouth analyzed 20 years of data, from 2001 ...