But at the Paris Olympics, newly designed sports pictograms look less like public signage and more like something you’d find tourists puzzling over at the Pompidou.

Instead, at every Olympics, organizers use visual symbols known as pictograms to represent each sport. Similar to icons marking bathrooms or no-smoking areas, pictograms work best when they’re ...

French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati went viral after people believed his Olympic dreams ended because his bulge knocked down a crossbar, but that wasn't actually the cause.

In Wednesday's Paris Olympic women's pole vault final, Canadian Alysha Newman secured a bronze medal finish in her first ever Olympic pole vault final. The bronze medal by Newman is the first ...

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Alysha Newman, the Canadian pole vaulter who divided the internet when she celebrated her Olympic bronze medal by twerking, says her risqué celebration was done as a prank on her coaches and not ...

Then there was the peculiarly anatomical-looking mascots, not to forget the Olympic pictograms. We'll recap below on the biggest Olympic design controversies, and why they were actually great design.

Beijing 2008 Olympic Pictograms Unveiled The Pictograms for the Beijing 2008 Games have been released by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG). The Pictograms ...

Anthony Ammirati's pole vault attempt during the Olympic Games went viral because people thought he knocked down the crossbar with his crotch. He later reacted to the buzz with a funny TikTok.

Something rather uncomfortable got in the way of French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati advancing toward his Olympic dream.

Pole vaulting is one of the more outlandish Olympic events. The primary instruments of the sport are curious creations—big sticks, between 10 and 17 feet in length, that certain track & field ...