Olympic Track And Field News

Thousands of spectators cheered and hollered as track runners bolted toward the finish line in this weekend's Special Olympics Florida's Summer Games.

Matt Hughes doesn't want to downplay or overplay the significance of winning the first 3,000-metre steeplechase race of the track-and-field season.

Olympic High School long jumper Tommy Secrest hits the pit to win the event at the Class 2A West Central District track and field meet at Sunset Chev Stadium in Sumner.

Atlanta hosted the best track and field athletes in the world on Friday night at Greater Atlanta Christian School in Norcross with a first class event in the Atlanta Grand Prix.

Track and field expert Geoff Gowan is shown in Ottawa in this March, 1996 photo.

Jesse Owens, of Cleveland East Tech High School and Ohio State University, runs a 200-meter preliminary heat at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where he won four gold medals.

CHINA can produce another Liu Xiang if the former Olympic 110-meter hurdles champion retires, according to another Chinese athlete who hopes to follow in the superstar's footsteps.

Several championship rings and Olympic rings were stolen from track-and-field gold medalist DeeDee Trotter's Altamonte Springs home, police said Friday.

After graduating from Elphinstone Secondary School in 2009, Kendra Pomfret's track and field and cross-country career has certainly taken off - in a big way.

Sanya Richards-Ross will make her season debut at the Diamond League meet in New York City on May 25.

Up to a few years ago, a sports fan might not find it unusual to read what pretty much amounted to an obituary for track and field.

For a group of students at Resurrection Catholic Secondary School, participating in the Special Olympics Ontario's soccer championships was such as big deal that most of them could hardly sleep the night before.

The top-ranked women team were granted 22 entries from 19 different athletes, while the men who are ranked 21st, earned 13 entries.

The Town of Princess Anne last Saturday hosted Street Fest. The event engaged the community and the town in events to celebrate the area and had events for children of all ages.

Members of the Wilton Y Special Olympics team traveled to Weston High School this past Saturday to compete in the Regional Games.

The former Auburn University, Team USA, and Olympic basketball player, Vickie Orr, will be one of eight to be inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

That is the reason she established the Veronica Campbell Brown Foundation in 2011 and pledged to give a portion of one of her competitive race fees, each year, to the foundation's cause.

The U.S. Olympic Committee had revenues of $338 million in 2012 and did not have to pay any of its former executives, further signs of the organization's increased stability.

When Justine Wilmot decided to take her first spin in a racing wheelchair at the Whitby Abilities Centre, she couldn't have asked for more elite company.

The Atlanta Braves and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights announce that Ambassador Andrew Young and Senator Leroy Johnson will be the inaugural recipients of the Hank Aaron Champion for Justice Award.