The Olympics bring countries together through sport. You watch top athletes compete for medals and expect fairness along with unity. History shows a different story though. Personal gain, political ...

Toronto native Josh Liendo set a short-course world record in the men's 100-metre butterfly Thursday in the third and final ...

A sports movie is a powerful thing. After all, what is a story without conflict, and what is an athletic competition if not a confrontation? You don’t have to know anything about boxing to understand ...

South Jersey has produced a three-time American League MVP in Mike Trout (Millville), one of the greatest soccer players in U.S. history in Carli Lloyd (Delran) and a two-time Super Bowl champion ...

On a water-logged final Sunday at the World Athletics Championships, the Americans won three relay golds and got another from Cole Hocker in the men’s 5,000-meter to cap a historic performance. The ...

If this year's edition of the World Athletics Championships has proven anything, it's that there's a new star on the American track and field stage. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden of Georgetown, S.C., won ...

American Cole Hocker, the reigning Olympic champion in the 1,500 meters, was disqualified Monday during the event’s semifinals at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Hocker was trying to ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - SEPTEMBER 14: Gold medalist Oblique Seville of Team Jamaica celebrates with the national flag of Jamaica after competing in the Men's 100 Metres Final on day two of the World Athletics ...

Newly crowned world champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden left nothing up to chance as she stormed to a new championship record of 10.61 in the 100-meter dash final. Jefferson-Wooden went into these ...

Check out the trailer for the anime movie 100 Meters! In select theatres October 10. In theatres nationwide October 12-14. 100 METERS follows Togashi, a track star who is born to run. As a kid, he is ...

Michael “Mike” Fray was one of the outstanding Jamaican sprinters of the 1960s and early 1970s, a period when the island was beginning to build its formidable reputation in world athletics. Born in ...

ZURICH, Switzerland — (AP) — Noah Lyles warmed up for the upcoming athletics world championships by chasing down Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo to win the 200 meters at the Diamond League final on ...