OLYMPICS

Tori Bowie won silver in the 100, bronze in the 200 and anchored the gold medal-winning 4x100 relay team at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

A chance meeting as a teenager with Jesse Owens inspired Mr. Douglas, who won a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1948 Olympics in London.

In an attempt to save the sport's place in the Olympic program, the U.S. and other countries are breaking from the scandal-plagued IBA.

The Tokyo gold medalist in the all-around said the "non-gymnastics related" medical concern won't stop her from "pursuing my dreams for a bid to Paris in 2024.”

The IOC has not decided to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris Games, but it has opened the door to let them qualify — an important first step.

American skating star Ilia Malinin won a bronze medal at the world championships, the next step for the 18-year-old toward a run at the 2026 Olympics.

The World Athletics Council will ban transgender athletes from women's events and restrict the eligibility of athletes with sex development differences.

American skater Ilia Malinin, known for his spectacular quadruple jumps, nailed his short program at the world figure skating championships and is in position to medal.

The crowd in Mexico City laughed at first in 1968. At the end, Mr. Fosbury had a gold medal and changed the high jump forever.

A judge blasted the organization's plan for a mixed-gender division, ordering it to allow a transgender lifter to compete with women. The group plans to appeal.

Mikaela Shiffrin opens herself to unreasonable expectations because she so regularly accomplishes things no one else has — and then tries for more.

Mikaela Shiffin now has 87 World Cup wins after Saturday's victory, passing Ingemar Stenmark for the most by any Alpine skier.

After winning a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics, Ms. Andersen became the world’s greatest marathon swimmer, regularly trouncing men.

For Jessie Diggins, pressure is a privilege, and an unprecedented world championship gold medal is the result.

After winning two gold medals, the ordained minister became the first athlete to appear on a Wheaties box front.

Latest appeals dispute the Russian agency's ruling that the figure skater bore no fault for her positive test for a banned substance before the Beijing Olympics.

Mike Day had worked with Mikaela Shiffrin since 2016. Shiffrin's pursuit of the all-time number of World Cup victories resumes next month.

Ukrainian President Volyodymyr Zelenskiy urged representatives from 35 countries to push the IOC to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympics.