Articles filed under Track and Field
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Felix runs for history, Americans seek more basketball goldAug 05, 2021 1:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Set the alarm for Day 14 of the Tokyo Games and watch Allyson Felix attempt to win a 10th track and field Olympic medal over breakfast. Then stay up late to...
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Belarus runner showed Japanese police plea for help on phoneAug 05, 2021 1:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who criticized her coaches at the Tokyo Games said Thursday that she showed police at the airport a translated plea f...
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Belarus runner used quick thinking to avoid being sent homeAug 05, 2021 1:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who feared reprisals back home after publicly criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Games used quick thinking to get h...
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McLaughlin edges Muhammad in battle of world-record hurdlersAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Sydney McLaughlin broke the world record. Dalilah Muhammad broke it, too. Only one of the world's best hurdlers could win the Olympic gold medal - and McLau...
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Cherry and Norman face off in 400-meter final at Tokyo GamesAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - The action on Day 13 of the Tokyo Games will feature track and field, with medals in the men's 400-meter final, the men's and women's 4x100 relays and the w...
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Belarus Olympic sprinter arrives in Vienna amid safety fearsAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - A plane carrying Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who is seeking refuge from authorities in her home country, has landed in Austria. Vi...
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A star is found: In 200, De Grasse finally gets his goldAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Perhaps the world's next sprint star wasn't so hard to find after all. He's Andre De Grasse, the Canadian who ran his first sprint in baggy basketball short...
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Multi-event world champions have rough day at Tokyo OlympicsAug 04, 2021 1:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - KJT was desperate to avoid a DNF at the Olympics. After injuring her lower right leg rounding the bend in the 200-meter event, heptathlon world champion Kat...
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Best race ever? Warholm wins record-setting hurdles raceAug 03, 2021 1:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - When brash Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm led the field to the starting line on a steamy afternoon at Olympic Stadium, he and his seven opponents had eve...
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EXPLAINER: What exactly are track's testosterone rules?Aug 03, 2021 1:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - The complex testosterone regulations in track and field have become an issue again at the Olympics after two teenagers from Namibia qualified for the women'...