Tag: Olympics

On National Coffee Day, we bring you the story of Brazilian athletes who, without travel funds from the government, had to earn their way to the Olympics in Los Angeles by selling coffee beans.

We don’t have the Olympic Games right now, but we can still mark a big Olympic moment that happened on this day in 1948: the day Alice Coachman became the first Black woman to win Olympic gold.

The ancient Olympians got olive branches as prizes. Why is it that we have Olympic medals in the first place?

On this day in 1912, the birth of the greatest athlete you might never have heard of - Olympic silver medalist and community advocate Mack Robinson.

“Oh my god, is he trapped in there?” - my six year old watching Mike Tirico at the 2018 Olympics.

A 2018 Olympic celebrity in the making!

"Steve took home gold in men's spelling"