Track & Field August 2012 Archive

Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake, who placed 1-2 in both the 100 and 200 meters in London earlier this month, pulled off another 1-2 of sorts in Lausanne's Athletissima meet ... Read More

Post-Olympic track and field competition often seems somewhat anticlimactic, but there are plenty of interesting events left on the 2012 schedule, highlighted by the remaining Diamond League meets. The series ... Read More

Olympic drug testers have claimed their first major track and field victim of 2012, stripping Nadzeya Ostapchuk of her shot put gold medal. The thrower from Belarus tested positive for ... Read More

Many of the expected winners came through as champions in the London Olympic games, but there was a surprise winner Sunday as Olympic track and field competition closed, as usual, ... Read More

The Jamaican 4 x 100-meter relay sprinters closed the track portion of Olympic track and field competition with the fourth world record of the London Games Saturday evening, powering to ... Read More

Russia, a traditionally strong race walking nation, was shut out of the medals in the men's 20-kilometer race last week. Today was a different story, however, as Russians won both ... Read More

The United States gained a Olympic sprinting victory over Jamaica and shattered a 27-year-old world record by winning the women's 4 x 100-meter relay in 40.82 seconds Friday evening. Jamaica ... Read More

It takes a mighty performance to grab a share of the headlines when Usain Bolt is in the house, but David Rudisha was up to the task on Thursday, breaking ... Read More

The decathlon became a two-man race through seven events Friday morning as Americans Ashton Eaton and Trey Hardee continued to separate themselves from the field. Eaton then separated himself from ... Read More

The United States earned 13 medals, two of them gold, in the first five days of Olympic track and field competition. On the Wednesday, the U.S. took seven, including three ... Read More

The Olympic decathlon opened as expected Wednesday with American world record-holder Ashton Eaton bursting out to a big lead courtesy of two of his favorite events, the 100 meters and ... Read More

Sally Pearson, who's dominated the 100-meter hurdles for the past year, overcame a strong challenge from defending champion Dawn Harper of the U.S. to win the gold medal in an ... Read More

Liu Xiang was the 2004 Olympic 110-meter hurdles champion, but he hasn't survived an opening Olympic heat since. In 2008 he dropped out due to a pre-Olympics injury. He suffered ... Read More

In Beijing four years ago, Jenn Suhr's clearance at 4.80 meters (15 feet, 9 inches) was only good enough for second place, thanks to Yelena Isinbayeva's world record performance. But ... Read More

Defending champion Gerd Kanter of Estonia almost provided a major shock during a morning of Olympic preliminary events when he was nearly eliminated from the discus competition. But Kanter not ... Read More

Anyone who believed that Usain Bolt's occasional mis-steps this year - such as his double losses to Yohan Blake in the Jamaican Olympic Trials - were signs of his demise ... Read More

Ethiopia's Tiki Gelana picked as good a spot as any to win her first major marathon as she pulled away in the final kilometer to win the Olympic gold medal ... Read More

The British empire returned on Saturday as Great Britain ruled the world - the track and field world, at least - by winning three Olympic gold medals. First, Jessica Ennis ... Read More

Great Britain's Jessica Ennis has all but wrapped up the Olympic heptathlon heading into the final event, the 800 meters, Saturday evening. Ennis enters the race with 5,971 points and ... Read More

The 2012 Olympic Games are starting to resemble the 2008 Olympics, as the first two track and field gold medals were earned by repeating champions. Tomasz Majewski of Poland gained ... Read More

British fans had plenty to cheer about as track and field competition began in the London Olympics Friday. Most notably, the home crowd enjoyed Jessica Ennis' literally fast start in ... Read More

Less than 48 hours remain until the first of 41 male shot-putters steps into the circle and heaves his first qualifying toss to begin the track and field portion of ... Read More