The Palestine Olympic Committee (POC) is calling for a last-minute ban for Israeli athletes in Paris for failing to uphold ...

Eight Palestinians from across the globe say they are competing in honor of their ancestral roots on the Palestine Olympic Team for this year's Games in Paris. But as athletes join in the ...

The NBC announcer offered a fast apology on social media after misidentifying Martinique’s flag as Palestine’s during the gold medal ceremony for men’s basketball in Paris. France’s ...

Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestine Olympic Committee, says sports can be a nonviolent tool to resist occupation. Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestine Olympic Committee, sits for an interview ...

“They’re all gone.” On Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian militants attacked the Israeli Olympic delegation at the Munich Games, ...

While Fadi Deeb, 39, has been diligently training in Paris in preparation for the Paralympic Games, the Gaza war is never far ...

It was a dream of hers since she was a child watching the Olympics as a fan, said Tarazi, 24. However, the Crystal Lake native did not swim for the United States, where she was born and raised, but ...

Tirico misidentified the flag as that of Palestine — which has a similar color scheme but contains an additional white bar in between the black and green ones. NBC #Olympics announcer ...

Olympics commentator Mike Tirico has apologised after a gaffe involving the Palestine flag. After a broadcasting blunder rocked the BBC’s Olympics coverage, US network NBC found itself at the ...

The French team, who won silver, and Serbia, which took bronze, flanked on the podium the Olympic champions from the U.S. “You saw with Lessort, one of the back centers, the Palestine flag ...

The team was created for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 as a symbol of hope and to call attention to the plight of refugees worldwide. Palestine's Omar Yaser Ismail, left, competes with ...