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Argentina and Great Britain won two gold medals in Polo during its short stint in the Summer Olympic Games. That's right, ...

The Santa Cruz police were deluged one January evening in 1928 with numerous complaints about roller skating boys disturbing the peace,” writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. “Yet ...

Many Olympic venues are left to decay after the events are over. See what these cities have done with the facilities after their games ended.