Elizabeth Becker won the silver medal in highboard diving at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. At the same Games she won the gold for springboard...
View of athletes, standing in rows, and crowds filling the stadium at the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
The U.S. Team enters the Olymoic Stadium during the opening ceremonies of the 20th Olympic Games, held in Munich, Germany. Olga Connolly, wife of...
Los Angeles, California: Opening of ceremonies of the 1984 Olympic Games. View of the stands with flags.
Yuki Motobuchi from Japan competes in the Women's springboard diving at the 1992 Olympic Games. | Location: Barcelona, Spain.
Full-length portrait of Felix Carvajal de Soto, Cuban athlete, who competed in the marathon, standing on the track of an athletic field in St. Louis,...
Exterior of the Rome Sports Palace, designed by Pier Luigi Nervi for the 1960 Olympic Games; it has a 200-ft. Wide dome with pattern that provides...
Dejected John Thomas of the United States is shown with Russia's Robert Shavlakadze and Valery Brumel , after both Russians finished ahead of him in...
Olympic games 1896 - Athens, Greece - The parade of the winners with Spiridon Louis, Winner of the marathon, holding a flag in traditional costume....
Gianfranco Peris holds up the Olympic torch after lighting the brazier in the opening ceremonies of the 1960 Summer Games.
Must have been a good joke. Miss Becker, the American girl diving star, has a good laugh with Pinkston, former Olympic diving champion who this year...
Paris, France: Olympic athletes at Colombes Stadium. Photo shows Myrra, Finland, winner of the javelin throw.
Paris: Olympic Athlete At Colombes Stadium. Photo shows Lee Barnes, the California high school boy, making his winning leap of 12 feet 11 1/8 inches...
Paris, France- Here is an exceptionally fine action picture made during the running of the 400-meter relay race, in which the American quartet...
Berlin, Germany: Helen Stephens, of Missouri, smiles for the camera man after setting a new world record of 0.11.5, in the 100 meter finals which she...
This is a massed general view of the official opening of the XIV Olympiad at Wembly, at the 1948 Summer Games.
Paris, France: Composite Olympic photo of the 400 meter swimming event. On left are swimmers Johnny Weissmuller, U. S. A. And Andrew Charlton,...
Moscow, Russia-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Sergei Belov, Soviet basketball coach, ignites the Olympic torch at Lenin Stadium during ceremony opening the...
Washington: President Carter tells a group of about 150 U. S. Olympic athletes and officials 3/21 the United States will not go to the 1980 summer...
Canadian teenagers Sandra Anderson and Stephen Prefontaine jointly light the Olympic urn in the stadium by passing the flame from their torch 7/17.
Munich, Germany: U.S. Olympic team enters the stadium during the opening ceremonies of the 20th Olympic games in Munich. Olga Connolly, wife of...
Paris, France- Picture shows relay team member, Stephenson, US, taking the baton from Cochran in the semi-final 1600-meter relay.
Paris, France- Hubbard, the great Negro jumper from the University of Michigan, wins the broad jump at the Olympic contest here. His triumphant leap...
Paris, France- Start of the 3,000 meter Olympic team race. Willie Ritola of Finland is shown on the front line, second from right.
Paris, France- Bud Houser of California, a member of the American Olympic Team, is shown heaving the discus for a new record at the Olympic games....
Paris, France- Close-up of Clarence Houser, University of Southern Calafornis, boy who won the shot-put with a record of 14,985 meters.
Rocquencourt, France- The American Olympic candidates are taking more honors than hoped. Every man is right up to the minute physically, due to the...
Lee Barnes, a 17-year-old high school student from Hollywood High in Los Angeles, wins the gold medal in pole vaulting at the 1924 Olympics in Paris.
Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-meter run at the 1968 Olympic Games, engage in a victory stand protest against...
Eight women selected to represent the United States in gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics, the XIVth Olympiad in London, after the try-outs in...
American athlete Harrison Dillard , Trinidad-born British athlete McDonald Bailey , British athlete Alastair McCorquodale , Panamanian athlete Lloyd...
Replicas of the Eiffel Tower with the logo of the 2024 Olympic Games for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games are displayed inside the...
Team Italy competes during the Group All-Around Final on day sixteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre on August 08, 2021...
This picture taken on October 21, 2019 shows a logo during a logo presentation ceremony for Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Grand Rex cinema in Paris.
Athletes parade around the stadium infield during the opening ceremony for the XXIII Olympic Games on 28 July 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial...
Person attending the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles holds a bumper sticker which reads, "Let the Soviets Play with Themselves," referring...
Here are some of the contestants in the 100-meters dash at the Olympic Games in Berlin, swathed in blankets after running their race. Left to right,...
An excellent aerial view of the Olympic stadium, made from the giant German dirigible Hindenburg, nearly 100,000 persons were in the stadium when the...
Olympic Games, London, England 1908. 400 meters hurdles, the 3rd hurdle, left to right: Harry Hillmand, U.S.A. 2nd and Charles Bacon, U.S.A 1st.
Flags of nations are at half-staff behind the Olympic torch during memorial services September 6 for the 11 dead Israeli athletes.
Here's Harold Kruger, who was a member of the Olympic Swimming team in 1924, doing some comic diving stunts at the Olympic Pool in Long Beach, NY.
Melbourne, Australia- Egil Danielsen of Norway heaves the javelin for a world record of 281 feet, 2 1/4 inches to win an Olympic gold medal. Phil...
Los Angeles, CA- Competitors begin the men's 4 X 200 meter Olympic relay final. Pictured are: Whiteside of Great Britain, Booth of the United States,...
Montreal, Canada: Montreal Expos' field manager Dick Williams points out certain aspects of the Olympic Stadium to free agent player Reggie Jackson...
Greatest Hockey Player of 1928 Olympics, Again Playing for India. Los Angeles, California: Dhyan Chand, acknowledged, in 1928, to be the world's...
Munich: Armed police drop into position on a terrace directly above the apartments where between nine and 26 members of the Israeli Olympic team are...
Berlin, Germany- Here is a picture of Chancellor Hitler's box during the ceremonies opening the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Left to right: Gen,...
Mexico City: Mexico's Norma Enriqueta Basilio, the first woman in the history of the modern Olympic Games to light the Olympic Fire, runs up the...
THE 1920 ANTWERP OLYMPICS. CHARLIE PADDOCK WINNING OLYMPIC TITLE WITH HIS TRADEMARK FLYING FINISH. PHOTO, 1920.
Johnny Weissmuller, American Olympic swimmer, 1904-1984, with Duke Kahanamoku, at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Wing Commander Donald Finlay, British Hurdler, taking the Olympic Oath from the Rostrum during the official opening of the XIV Olympiad at Wembley...
Anita DeFranz, shown in this photograph, a member of the Athletes Advisory Council and bronze medal winner in rowing at the 1976 Olympics in...
