Athing Mu-Nikolayev hasn't raced an 800m in nearly a year, but is ready to run at the 50th Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field and on a track where she has authored so much history already at age 23.

LOS ANGELES — Just as so much of American track and field’s history has been written between the white lines of Hayward Field, so has the storied venue chronicled the life and times of Athing ...

A Russian convict dubbed "Vladimir the Cannibal" has described the grim moment he first ate human flesh after killing a drinking buddy in a drunken row. Vladimir Nikolayevich Nikolayev, now 63, was ...

Andriyan Nikolayev, a member of the Soviet “Vanguard Six” cosmonauts, passed away on July 3, 2004. He commanded Vostok 3 in August 1962, achieving the first simultaneous crewed spaceflights with the ...

Andrian Nikolayev, who has died aged 74, broke all previous records for space travel when his spaceship Vostok III circled the Earth 64 times in 96 hours in August 1962; eight years later he set a new ...