Olympic Track And Field News

To Baltimore's Bernard Williams, the bronze medal he won in the 100 meters at the VIII World Championships of Track and Field yesterday was as good as gold.

Canada's Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse celebrate their second place finish at World Cup bobsleigh at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Whistler, B.C., last season.

Toronto gets its Pan Am games face on Mayor and officials involved in Pan Am Games bid en route to Mexico, cautiously hopeful of success, but wary of long legacy of disappointment Jennifer Lewington Published on Thursday, Nov.

Greek officials were left red-faced yesterday after it became known that former Olympic champion Fani Halkia, banned for doping, had run a leg of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games torch relay in Greece.

November 4, 2009, 09:40 PM - - China plans to hold a robot Olympics next June with events including combat, dancing and track and field, state-run media said late Wednesday.

Robot makers around the world can show their creations and compete in the first International Humanoid Robot Olympic Games next June in China's northeastern city of Harbin.

Several years ago, Mike Rutt spent autumn afternoons doing double duty, playing soccer and cross country for Wilson.

New York City Marathon spectators in Central Park cheered on Meb Keflezighi yesterday on his way to becoming the first American to win the race since 1982.

Jorge and Emily Torres with their dogs Winston and Wrigley at their home in Boulder, Colorado October 19, 2009.

AUSTRALIA is in danger of becoming an Olympic Games also-ran, with AOC boss John Coates to today issue a blunt warning about just how far we could fall as a sporting nation.

Marilson Gomes dos Santos cried every day for three months. He was 15 years old and had never been away from home, not even for a night.

The third Asian Indoor Games opened in Hanoi on Friday night. More than 5,000 athletes, coaches and officials from 43 countries and territories are participating in the Games until Nov.

Senior American Olympic official Doug Arnot has been appointed director of games operations for the 2012 London Olympics.

With nearly 600 confirmed guests, the IU Varsity Club announced today that a capacity crowd is expected for the 2009 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

Jesse Lumsden could join the Canadian bobsled team when the Edmonton Eskimos' season ends.

A general view of the closing ceremony of the 11th Chinese National Games in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, October 28, 2009.

LOCAL NEWS AND NOTES Westboro's Ashley Walden will continue her quest to make her second Winter Olympics when the United States Luge team resumes its race-off series Nov.

Li Yanxi of Hebei broke the oldest Chinese track field national record as she rewrote the men's 28-year-old triple jump record with 17.59 meters at the 11th Chinese National Games in Jinan, Shandong province on Monday.

Lionel Jones and Wendy Jerome discuss Canadian sprinting legend Harry Jerome, who died of a brain aneurysm at age 42 in 1982.

A recent survey of CEOs of Olympic sports governing bodies found little to no confidence in the senior leadership of the U.S. Olympic Committee.