Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. Encores happen in sport, this we know. Michael Jordan kept winning NBA titles. Joe Montana kept winning Super Bowls. Lance Armstrong kept winning Tours de France. Greatness once established is proved again and solidified, and a legend's resume grows longer. But in 2009, Usain Bolt did something far more remarkable -- he improved on the impossible.
American Tyson Gay produced a blistering finish to edge out Asafa Powell and take victory in the 100 meters at the World Athletics final in Thessaloniki.
Jamaican Usain Bolt continued his remarkable summer by producing another awesome performance to win the 200 meters at the Golden League meeting in Brussels on Friday.
Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva, Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia and U.S. star Sanya Richards will be competing for a $1 million jackpot in the final Golden League meeting of the season in Brussels on Friday.
World 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt will compete solely in the longer sprint distance at the Golden League meeting in Brussels on Friday.
Fresh from setting the world of athletics alight by running a blistering new world record time of 9.58 seconds in the men's 100 meters at the World Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt has told reporters "anything is possible" for the future.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
Greece's former 400m hurdles Olympic champion Fani Halkia, her coach and two more athletes have been charged by Athens prosecutors with doping violations prior to and during last summer's Beijing Olympic Games.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. Encores happen in sport, this we know. Michael Jordan kept winning NBA titles. Joe Montana kept winning Super Bowls. Lance Armstrong kept winning Tours de France. Greatness once established is proved again and solidified, and a legend's resume grows longer. But in 2009, Usain Bolt did something far more remarkable -- he improved on the impossible.
American Tyson Gay produced a blistering finish to edge out Asafa Powell and take victory in the 100 meters at the World Athletics final in Thessaloniki.
Jamaican Usain Bolt continued his remarkable summer by producing another awesome performance to win the 200 meters at the Golden League meeting in Brussels on Friday.
Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva, Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia and U.S. star Sanya Richards will be competing for a $1 million jackpot in the final Golden League meeting of the season in Brussels on Friday.
World 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt will compete solely in the longer sprint distance at the Golden League meeting in Brussels on Friday.
Fresh from setting the world of athletics alight by running a blistering new world record time of 9.58 seconds in the men's 100 meters at the World Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt has told reporters "anything is possible" for the future.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
Greece's former 400m hurdles Olympic champion Fani Halkia, her coach and two more athletes have been charged by Athens prosecutors with doping violations prior to and during last summer's Beijing Olympic Games.
BEIJING -- For someone who claims to know little about Australian swimming history, Stephanie Rice has done a stunning job of securing her place in it. In swimming the leadoff leg for the first Aussie team to win an Olympic gold medal in the women's 4x200 free relay Thursday, the 20-year-old Rice became just the fifth Aussie to collect three golds in a single Olympics, joining Shane Gould, Ian Thorpe, Jodie Henry and Patria Thomas in the pantheon. As with Rice's 400 and 200 IM victories -- she was the first Aussie to double in the medleys -- the one today was in world record time.
Asked before the start of the Games about the American athletes with the requisite charisma to explode off the screen, NBC Sports and Olympics executive producer David Neal cited three names that stood above the rest: Michael Phelps, Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin. "They all have it," Neal said.
BEIJING -- When Michael Phelps finally hit the pool Saturday evening for the final heat of the men's 400 IM after months of anticipation, it was clear that fast-paced competition at the Water Cube would not be limited to the water this week.
Former world record holder Asafa Powell won the 100 meters final at the London grand prix on Friday in 9.94 seconds in his final race before the Beijing Olympics.
The U.S. Olympic track and field team was dramatically changed in a period of five seconds early Saturday afternoon during the team trials at Hayward Field.
Marshavet Hooker glided through the finish line in her 100-meter quarterfinal heat Friday night at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials and then heard the voice of public address announcer Scott Davis as he announced her winning time. "10.76 seconds...''
Sri Lanka's National Olympic Committee has finalized the list of its athletes who will represent the nation at the forthcoming Olympic Games to be held at the Chinese capital, Beijing, this year.
This week marks 25 years since the sad, alcohol-sodden death of Garrincha, the bandy-legged genius rated as second only to Pelé in Brazil's pantheon. Over a period of eight years, while Garrincha and Pelé were both on the field, Brazil never lost a game.
American sprint sensation Tyson Gay fell victim to unfavorable conditions again as he was frustrated in his bid to set a new world record over 100 meters at the London Grand Prix on Friday.
Two days of finals in the books. Time to run an old-fashioned two-mile around the USA Track and Field national championships. Eight laps: We'll let Tyson Gay start and Bernard Lagat finish. Beat that.
In the most predictable of scenarios, the Kentucky Derby is a vast riddle. Young athletes (horses) are being asked to run further than they have run in their brief, competitive lives and, in truth, further than most of them will ever be asked to run again. Likewise, they are facing 19 opponents for the first and almost surely the only time. They are running in front of more than 150,000 obstreperous spectators for the first and -- repeat after me -- only time.
Laure Manaudou of France set the seal on the European swimming championships in Budapest with a stunning world record in the women's 400 meters freestyle.
Australia's Libby Lenton produced a couple of upsets to take her tally to five golds at the world short course championships -- with two more titles on Sunday's final evening.
America's Ryan Lochte set the first world record at the world short course swimming championships in Shanghai with a new best in the men's 200 meters individual medley on Friday.
Laszlo Cseh of Hungary shattered the world record in the men's 400 meter individual medley and France's Laure Manaudou set a world best in the women's 800m freestyle at the European Short-Course Swimming Championships in Trieste on Friday.
Defending champions the United States went out of the men's 4x100 relay at the world championships in Helsinki on Friday when the baton was dropped in a bungled changeover between leadoff runner Mardy Scales and Leonard Scott in the first round.
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