You can get in touch with Joe by emailing joe.edwards@newsweek.com Hosting the Olympics often brings significant attention to the host country ... States has hosted the most Summer Olympic Games ...

The 2024 Summer Olympic Games have begun ... over its support for Russia, and both countries have remained banned from participating in the Olympics as the war in Ukraine has drawn on.

Israel’s 88 athletes are among more than 10,500 sportspeople from some 200 countries who will participate in the Olympics ... who have been invited to compete at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

Over 50 countries and territories have never won an Olympic medal, either in the Summer or Winter Games. Among these are nations like South Sudan, which participated in the Olympics for the first ...

However, a small handful of countries are not participating in the Olympics ... in the world without an International Olympic Committee, having never applied to join, although it has signaled ...

The whole world ... countries in the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and each will have at least one athlete in Paris this summer. What is the smallest country to compete in the Olympics?

As the best-placed African team, the result secured the squad a spot at the Olympics for the very first time in its history. Not bad for a country that has only ... on the Olympic map and forging ...

The FIBA Olympic qualifying tournaments concluded at the end of the first week of July and with the four winners qualifying for the Olympics, we officially have all 12 participating countries in ...

The Olympics welcome the best athletes from over a hundred countries around the world ... an athlete has in their sport, there's always something special to take away from Olympic competitions.

Hosting the Olympics ... to the world. It also often leads to infrastructure development and economic impacts, both positive and negative, for the host. A handful of countries have hosted the ...

The whole world has ... Paris has hosted the Olympics twice before in 1900 and 1924, so this return trip is long overdue. There are 206 countries in the International Olympic Committee (IOC ...