Olympic Track And Field News

There's intensity in her eyes, her face as taut with determination as her body is with drive.

Jenna Martin and Geoff Harris, lower right, will lead a strong local contingent into the Canadian track and field championships in Moncton this weekend.

Brenda Martinez admits she was overwhelmed at all the decisions she had to make coming out of UC Riverside three years ago.

Brenda Martinez has had a record-breaking 2013, setting personal best times in the 800 meters, 1,500 meters and even the 5,000 on the way to a breakout professional season.

Lolo Jones posted a Vine video in which she pokes fun at a check she received for $741.84 as prize money from the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation.

Olympic Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake has withdrawn from the island's national championships this week because of a hamstring injury.

World athletics' governing body, the IAAF, on Wednesday vehemently denied any cover-up of Italian 50km race walker Alex Schwazer's use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Here we go again. Or do we? The U.S. Outdoor Track & Field Championships begin Wednesday in Des Moines, Iowa, and Plymouth native Morgan Uceny is seeking her third consecutive national title in the women's 1,500-meter run.

The USA Track and Field outdoor national championships will get moving with the first pistol shot Wednesday in Des Moines, Iowa.

File- This Aug. 3, 2012 file photo shows Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown competing in a women's 100-meter heat during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London.

Kipp is one of several former and current Buffaloes who will compete at the USA Track & Field Championships at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, this Thursday through Sunday.

Going pro early is not confined to basketball and baseball. It happens in track and field, too.

That's how Des Moines native and two-time indoor world champion 100-meter hurdler Lolo Jones describes the field in which she'll compete at this week's USATF Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Drake Stadium.

For a little bit, Tyson Gay's first step tearing down the track made him wince and his next made him wonder: Would he ever be the same sprinter again? The runner who captured three gold medals at the 2007 world championships.

The U.S. Women's National Team captured its second consecutive gold medal at the 2013 Pan American Cup, held June 10-16 in Lima, Peru.

Emerald's Jenna Bromell has been selected on the Irish team to compete at next month's European Youth Olympics in Holland.

On Monday afternoon the USTFCCCA announced the 10 semifinalists for The Bowerman, and K-State senior Erik Kynard is on the list.

If Lolo Jones returns to Lake Placid, N.Y., later this year in hopes of making the Olympic bobsled team, she can expect a frosty reception.

Since winning the Wildflower Long Course Triathlon in 2011, Jesse Thomas has won five more triathlons, including two more Wildflowers and the Rev3 Florida, Rev3 Maine and Ironman 70.3 Poconos in 2012.

Xavier Donaldson, 7, of Montclair , won two gold medals and a silver in the USA Track & Field New Jersey Junior Olympics meet this past weekend in Palisades Park .