Memorabilia from the career of four-time world cycling champion William "Bill" Bailey is set to go under the hammer at an auction in England next week.

One of the four gold medals that the legendary Jesse Owens won during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin has sold for $615,000 (£468,000/€556,000) at auction.

One of the four gold medals that the legendary Jesse Owens won during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin is up for auction.

The past couple of weeks have been Peru’s time in the international sports spotlight, with the South American nation making a good fist of hosting the Pan American Games, which draw to a close tonight in the capital, Lima.

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has dismissed suggestions Berlin could bid for the 2036 Olympics and Paralympics as he claimed it would be "unthinkable" for the nation to host the event on the 100-year anniversary of the propaganda-fuelled Berlin 1936 Games.

Eighty years after it was released, Olympia, the epic film of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, remains one of the greatest sports films of all time. 

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson has been criticised by the Kremlin for his "outrageous" comparison between Russian President Vladimir Putin's promotion of this year's FIFA World Cup and Adolf Hitler's use of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin as a propaganda tool.

As India was a British colony, its athletes had to march behind Great Britain's flag at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. But in the dressing room before their final match against Germany, India's hockey team saluted the tricolor flag of the Indian National Congress. The team went on to win 8-1, with Dhyan Chand scoring six goals playing barefoot, to claim the gold medal. 

Two of Jesse Owens' gold medals from the Berlin 1936 Olympic Games will be auctioned in August.

Eighty years ago, spectators in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium might have caught sight of a rather peculiar and cumbersome piece of machinery. What they were seeing was one of the world’s first television cameras.

Even 80 years on, the Berlin Games of 1936 remain the most controversial and most talked about in the history of the modern Olympic movement. 

Sándor Tarics, the world's oldest Olympic champion, who won a water polo gold medal at Berlin 1936, has died in San Francisco aged 102.

A rare 22 karat gold medal from the Paris 1900 Olympic Games - which was won in automobile racing - is currently featuring in an auction of memorabilia by SCP Auctions.

Discus thrower Guo Jie, who was the world’s oldest surviving Olympian, has died at the age of 103, it has been announced.