Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley offers lessons on maintaining success, as the resort struggled to sustain Olympic momentum ...

The 1960 Winter Olympics held in the Sierra Nevada transformed a sleepy valley into a ski haven. Organizers tried out new ideas, like instant replay and nationally televising the events — ideas that ...

On Feb. 18, 1960, the games opened. “It was quite impressive, to say the least,” Briner said. Briner said before the Olympics, not much building had been done up at the lake, and California ...

Terri Scott, then 12 years old, recalled watching the Olympic ski jumpers live at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. “I was so amazed. Back then television wasn’t as good, so to see it ...

The 1960 Rome Summer Olympics set the standard for every Olympiad to follow. These Games were the first televised in the United States, ...

FILE - In this April 7, 1960 file photo, a general view of the swimming pool that will be used during the 1960 Rome Summer Olympic Games. They were the Summer Games that ushered in the Olympics as ...

With the Beijing Olympics about to begin, we turn our attention momentarily to games from almost half a century ago. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Maraniss, author of sports biographies of ...

Just in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics, David Maraniss' "Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World" looks back at the 1960 Olympic Games, the Rome-based event that became ...

Otis Davis, two-time gold medalist in 1960 Olympics, dies at 92. At the relatively late age of 28, he set world records while winning the 400 meters and 1,600-meter relay.

The 6-foot-3 athlete was also honored with carrying the United States flag in the 1960 Olympic games and lightning the torch in the 1984 Olympics at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

This is the summer of 1960 and people are gathered to hear a story from the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, of an event that happened 14 hours earlier. No live television of the Olympics in those days.

A California ski resort that hosted the 1960 Winter Olympic Games announced Monday it changed its name after its old moniker was deemed racially offensive and misogynistic. "More than one year ago ...