As Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt takes his place on the starting block this weekend, his focus will likely be on performing his best – not on the statistical odds of breaking his own record. But that’s ...

Julia Hawkins, the athletic centenarian, continues to amaze on the track at 105 years old Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles ...

Richardson's gold medal at the world championships comes two years after she was left off the U.S. Olympic team for using marijuana Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at ...

The first competition in the first modern Olympics in 1896 was the 100-meter dash, with American Thomas Burke winning gold in a time of 12 seconds. More than a century later, the 100 meters ...

The East Texas A&M men's track and field 4x200 meter relay team blazed to a school record and world lead at the Texas Relays ...

Ghana’s Abdul-Rasheed Saminu run a wind aided 9.87 seconds in the 100 meter dash in his first outdoor race of the season. The ...