Thirty-five years ago today the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium in Seoul was set alight to mark the opening of the second summer Games to be held in Asia. This historic moment was marred by the fact ...

EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games. This story was published in The ...

These are anxious moments for Don Mott, because it won`t be long before he heads off to Seoul, South Korea. Every morning, when he awakens in his home on the South Side, he adheres to a strict regimen ...

SEOUL — When South Korea hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, it was a coming-out party for a poor country still recovering from the ruins of the Korean War. Fast-forward to today, and South ...

SEOUL, South Korea - A Korean boxer who knew he didn't deserve his gold raised the hand of an American who felt cheated, and with that noble gesture of sportsmanship ended an Olympics that will be ...

South Korea offering an olive branch. North Korea striking a defiant tone. And the world waiting to see if tensions rattling the Korean Peninsula could undermine an Olympic Games, with calamitous ...

Although falling just short of an intimation of the end of civilisation as we know it, the phone-call in the middle of the night was nevertheless shocking enough to induce temporary paralysis. That ...

FILE PHOTO: Matt Biondi of the USA smiles as he shows the gold medal that he won in the men's 100 metres freestyle September 22, 1988 at the Seoul Olympics. This was his fourth medal of the games and ...

With the Olympic Games in South Korea approaching, American spies grew increasingly worried about a longtime adversary: North Korea. “Pyongyang appears set on attempting to ruin the games,” the U.S.