On May 13, 1931, the International Olympic Committee, headed by Count Henri Baillet-Latour of Belgium, awarded the 1936 Summer Olympics to Berlin. The choice signaled Germany's return to the world ...

A 1936 Olympic gold medal, a 1931-32 Football League Division 1 winner’s medal and a Ferenc Puskas Real Madrid shirt are among some of the sporting memorabilia ...

The 1936 Olympic Winter Games were held in the twin Bavarian towns of Garmisch and Partenkirchen in Germany. Adolf Hitler opened the Games, as he would do at the Berlin Summer Games six months later.

By Richard Goldstein Iris Cummings Critchell, a swimmer who was the last survivor of the American team that competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and an influential aviator who flew ...

Iris Cummings Critchell, a swimmer who was the last surviving athlete from the 1936 Olympics, died on Jan. 24. She was 104 years old. Cummings Critchell’s death was confirmed by Harvey Mudd ...

Why did the Nazis introduce the Olympic torch relay at the 1936 games? More than 3,000 runners carried torches from Olympia, Greece, to Berlin, Germany, to kick off the 1936 Olympics. Austrian Jew ...

Iris Cummings Critchell, who displayed her derring-do in the water and in the air, swimming with the U.S. Olympic team at the 1936 Summer Games, flying with the WASPs during World War II and ...

swam in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and went on to serve as a US Women’s Air Service Pilot during the Second World War. Iris Cummings was 15 when, with two national titles for the women’s 200 ...

Do you hike in the mountains, swim in the ocean, watch the sunset or listen to birds? Do you wish the outdoors were easier to access where you live? By Natalie Proulx What is it like to report ...

"I can say it today that India has a very bright future in sports. We are ready to host the Olympics in 2036," Shah, the chief guest at the event in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, said in his address ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 30, 1924, Gillis Grafström of Sweden won the men’s figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics. The ...

The esports community had been eagerly anticipating the debut of the Esports Olympic Games, yet it appears the wait will stretch beyond what was initially planned. Designed as a key strategy to ...