The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome were fraught with change and significance. It was a time of racial struggle in the United States. The Cold War between the USSR and the United States was heating up.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, has died. He was 86. Family friend Michael Roth says Johnson ...

ROME (AP) — Nino Benvenuti, an Italian former boxer who won gold at his home Olympics in 1960 before earning world championship titles in two weight classes as a pro, has died at age 87. The Italian ...

The Olympic Games are often a platform for athletes to introduce themselves to the world in the best way possible – by winning. The 1960 Games, staged in the Eternal City of Rome, was no different.

Terry Tobacco represented Canada in the 400 metres at both the 1956 Melbourne and 1960 Rome Summer Games. A celebration of ...

Thompson beat past Olympic champion John Ljunggren (left) and future Olympic champion Abdon Pamich (right) to the top step of ...

LOS ANGELES — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks ...