Kikkan Randall, who endured a year of breast cancer treatment starting a few months after winning Olympic gold in cross-country skiiing, will run the New York City Marathon as part of a group of runners with inspirational stories.
Top-ranked high school senior Paige Bueckers and WNBA Rookie of the Year Napheesa Collier are helping the U.S. women roll through the World Beach Games 3x3 basketball competition in Qatar.
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s case against Chinese swimmer Sun Yang will be heard in front of print media and possibly live-streamed Nov. 15 in Switzerland.
Brigid Kosgei and Eliud Kipchoge’s barrier-breaking marathons show how seriously runners, shoe companies and sports scientists are taking the world’s prototypical distance event.
The U.S. women picked up where they left off in the World Rugby Sevens Series on Sunday, winning the first event of the 2019-20 series at home in Glendale, Colo.
The U.S. men’s gymnastic team did enough Monday to meet its primary task of qualifying for the 2020 Olympics, but a series of perplexing falls and errors ruined the chances of chasing medals in most individual events.
Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich, who won the Dubai Marathon earlier this year with the third-fastest time in history (2:17:08), broke away from the a small lead pack with seven kilometers remaining to win the world championship Saturday morning under sauna-like conditions in Doha, Qatar.
Reigning world track and field champions Justin Gatlin, Emma Coburn and Christian Taylor had little trouble keeping their title defenses alive Friday in Doha, Qatar, on a day in which most U.S. favorites advanced.
Christian Coleman takes on older sprinters Justin Gatlin and Yohan Blake in the 100 meters, while Jeff Henderson, DeAnna Price and Molly Huddle chase medals on the second day of the track and field world championships Saturday.
Will Claye, Christian Taylor, Emma Coburn and Rai Benjamin are among the U.S. stars in preliminary action on the first day of the World Track and Field Championships.
Sarah Robles, who has already broken multiple droughts in U.S. weightlifting, has a chance to add a fourth medal to a breakthrough showing for the U.S. women at the world championships after Kate Nye, Mattie Rogers and Jenny Arthur reached the podium earlier in the week.
Brazil’s Rafaela Silva, whose story of rising from poverty to win Olympic gold in her hometown was an inspirational story in 2016, was one of three athletes to lose medals after positive doping tests at the 2019 Pan Am Games, organizers confirmed.
