Abhinav Bindra is her favorite Olympian, and she particularly cherishes his and Neeraj Chopra's gold medal victories as they revolutionized Indian athletes' mindset towards achieving sporting ...

Being world-class in both the 100 & 200, or both the 200 and 400, is tough enough, but how about those very rare athletes who ...

The invincible Katie swims faster now at 28 than when she was 19. Katie Ledecky won last night in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, ...

"You mean that story about Carl Lewis taking cold medicine just before ... Told that Johnson was considering a lawsuit to get back the 100-meter gold medal taken from him at the 1988 Olympics ...

John Walton Smith came tantalizingly close to winning a gold medal at the Olympics. But fate intervened. A track star, Smith was ranked No. 1 in the world in the early 1970s. He broke the record in ...

Carl Borack made his first senior international team at the 1967 Pan American Games, where he won a gold medal in team foil, but he competed at the Junior World Championships in 1965-67. As a senior ...

The doyen of sports commentators, Bruce McAvaney will lead SBS’ broadcast of the 2025 World Athletics Championships Tokyo, which is shaping as an historic event for an exceptional Australian athletics ...

At the age of 18, Duncanville senior Brayden Williams is running astonishing 100-meter times that are normally reserved for Olympians and world-class sprinters. Few college athletes have ever run as ...

Carl Lewis did it his own way - unwilling to conform to what the US expected from its athletes. Lewis won nine Olympic gold medals across four Games and was voted “Sportsman of the Century” by ...

With seven medals (one gold, two silver, four bronze) won in Paris last year, the Australian athletics team is coming off its most successful Olympic Games since Melbourne in 1956, and appears to ...