Mariah Carey in 2019.John Shearer / Getty Images file Mariah Carey is going to add some American pop-star pedigree to the opening ceremony for the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Olympics...

The Olympic rings are seen in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, September 2017...

UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Marta Hurtado The United Nations has rebuked France for banning the country’s athletes from wearing headscarves during the 2024 Paris Games...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan hosted a banquet at the Great Hall of the People Saturday noon to welcome distinguished guests from around the world who attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games...

Medical personnel wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) sit rink-side as Czech ice hockey team trains at the National Indoor Stadium ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, on February 1, 2022...

America is among the countries to announce a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics...

Former US President Donald Trump Former US President Donald Trump has rejected the idea that the United States should boycott the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, days after China warned that Washington and its allies will pay the price for their diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing...

The US and its allies have announced diplomatic boycotts of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces Canada will join a political boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights concerns, at a press conference in Ottawa, Canada, on December 8, 2021...

China threatens countermeasures if the US boycotts the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing...

Kamila Valieva set a figure skating world record at 15 © Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Days after a 15-year-old Russian sensation and Winter Olympics favorite set a new world record, Norway has resubmitted a proposal for the age limit for adult skaters in the discipline to be raised by two years...

As Tokyo doused its Olympic flame in a closing ceremony on Sunday (August 8), crowds gathered outside the National Stadium to capture a glimpse of the event before it came to an end...

The positive test for US pole vaulter Sam Kendricks had implications for the Australian team...

China’s Shi Zhiyong has won Gold in the 73 kilogram weightlifting event after smashing his own world record...

People take pictures in front of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame on display at Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture on March 20, 2020, after its arrival from Greece...

US actor Gerard Butler poses with the Olympic flame during the Olympic flame relay in Sparta on March 13, 2020 ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games...