The Rio 2016 torch relay will begin with a ceremonial start in Olympia, Greece, in May 2016, spanning 90 to 100 days and including 10,000 torch bearers. The flame will traverse 12,000 miles across ...

No track and field athlete had ever won three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the Men’s 100m and 200m races coming into Rio 2016. However, Usain Bolt was able to do that through the first two weeks ...

Usain Bolt made it a perfect nine for nine in Olympic finals, completing a unique “triple-triple” of sprinting gold, as he anchored Jamaica to victory in the men’s 4x100 meters relay in Rio. Just as ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Even Justin Gatlin could sense the irony. “The last couple years, you know, track and field for men on the relay side, there’s kind of been bobbles here and there and drops,” he said.

Stephen Milne has announced his retirement after a career in which he has earned Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth medals. The 28-year-old first graced the international podium when he won ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Minus the stakes at play, it could’ve been practice: Four American women running on an otherwise empty track, honing their relay skills in advance of the actual competition. But there ...

The cracks in the United States' men's sprinting program were on display for the world to see in Rio on Friday night. Minutes after watching the women's 4x100m relay team easily retain its gold medal ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — The flame for South America’s first Olympics was kindled Thursday at the birthplace of the ancient games in Greece, heralding the start of a 15-week journey that will ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Organizers of the torch relay for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro say it will visit 250 towns and cities across Brazil, reaching 90 percent of its 200 million people. Organizers ...

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