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Philadelphia, Apr. 27 – The 2017 Penn Relays at the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field in Philadelphia is, once again, bringing together elite athletes representing their countries, schools, and other…
Bahamian track fans got something to rejoice about on Sunday (23) when their mixed-gender 4x400m team mined gold at the third renewal of the World Relays in that country’s capital…
Concerns over injuries have caused British Athletics to withdraw Britain’s women’s 4x100m team entry from this weekend’s IAAF World Relays in Nassau, Bahamas as a precautionary measure. According to a…
Scintillating, breathtaking, amazing, and phenomenal are just a few superlatives that describe Jamaica’s 12-year-old Brianna Lyston’s time of 23.72secs. (-0.6m/s) and that of 14-year-old Kevona Davis , (23.07 (0.9m/s) over…
Jamaica’s double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson ran away from the field to capture the women’s 60m dash at Saturday’s (18) Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix in a world-leading 6.98secs. In storming…
The 2016 Rio Olympic Games ended Saturday night (20th) with victories for the USA in the women’s and men’s 4x400m relays. Running against archrivals and 2015 World Championships winner Jamaica…
Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson became the world’s fastest woman this year and the first since 1988 to win the sprint double at the Olympics, when she raced to victory in a…
Twenty-five minutes before Usain Bolt became the first man to win the 100m consecutively over three Olympic Games, South Africa’s quarter-miler and 2015 World Champion Wayde van Niekerk destroyed the…
Sprint double world record holder Usain Bolt defeated Justin Gatlin in the 100m Olympic final in Rio de Janeiro last night to become the first man to win back-to-back gold…
The look on Kendra Harrison’s face after winning the 100m hurdles at the Diamond League meeting in London yesterday (July 22) was priceless. Her usually emotionless facial expression slowly transformed…