ROMEROME — They were the Summer Games that ushered in the Olympics as we know them today. Starting 50 years ago on Wednesday, Rome hosted the first Summer Olympics to be commercially broadcast. They ...

Television - and gold medals - made a boxer named Cassius Clay and sprinter Wilma Rudolph household names. A glamorous setting for a larger pool of competitive nations. And lots of money spent on the ...

The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome were fraught with change and significance. It was a time of racial struggle in the United States. The Cold War between the USSR and the United States was heating up.

The 1960 Rome Olympics were the first commercially televised games, saw the first doping scandal and the first commercial endorsement. David Maraniss, author of "Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed ...

On the final evening of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, a little-known Ethiopian stepped to the starting line of the marathon, barefoot. He raced in the shadows of ancient ruins, including the Axum ...

If there ever was a time to ponder the meaning and magnificence of the Olympics, this is it: On the eve of the 2008 Summer Olympics in China, the world is poised to judge this historic twinning of ...

Italian long-distance runner Francesco Perrone, known for competing in the marathon at the Rome 1960 Olympics, has died at the age of 89 due to COVID-19. A former police inspector, Perrone tested ...

Nicknamed "the black gazelle", U.S champion Wilma Rudolph crosses the finish line of the Olympic 100m event, that she wins, establishing a new world record, 02 September 1960 in Rome where she ...

“The world is stirring not only politically,” Arthur Daley of the Times noted. “It is stirring athletically, too. Nations that weren’t in existence at the time of the Melbourne Games four years ago ...

Fortunato Franco was part of the 1960 Rome Olympics squad where he failed to get a game but was an integral part of India's 1962 Asiad gold winning football team in Jakarta. PK Banerjee's contribution ...