track and field

Sha’Carri Richardson may be the most exciting sprint star since Usain Bolt

Rising US star brings baggage and a back story as she takes on Dina Asher-Smith over 100m this Sunday

5 years ago

Antidepressants Almost Cost This Olympian Her Career

If you’re an elite athlete today and don’t want to risk being accused of doping, you might want to skip…

5 years ago

Caster Semenya Is Barred From Her Best Race. But She Won’t Give Up On Tokyo

Caster Semenya’s fight continues. In Feb, the South African runner filed an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights,…

5 years ago

Long before Colin Kaepernick knelt, a Black female athlete defied the US National Anthem, but she’s been largely forgotten

Over a half a century before Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the US national anthem, track and field star…

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U.S. Olympians embrace latitude to speak out at trials, but IOC’s Rule 50 looms

U.S. sprinter Allyson Felix said of the USOPC's decision to allow athletes to speak out on social justice issues during…

5 years ago

April 5 – April 11, Highlights and Lowlights

? This week our highlight goes to Natalia Dorantes, who was hired by the Washington Football Team as the first Latina…

5 years ago

A College Athletics Coach Has Been Charged With Stealing Nude Photos From Student Athletes

The former coach at Northeastern University also allegedly tried to dupe students into sending him more photos.

5 years ago

‘I felt my body was still capable’: Meet the moms hoping to shine at the Olympics

With Team USA's Olympic trials around the corner, 100-meter hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson has enlisted the help of a new assistant…

5 years ago

The Texan who forever transformed women’s sports

Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who competed in multiple sports on the national and global stage, is regarded as one of the…

5 years ago

Nike’s new ad celebrating pregnant athletes falls flat, given its own history of mistreating them

One of the fascinating things about how some entities behave is their utter disregard for their previous actions, or their…

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