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 ...

We're in the home stretch of the 2016 Rio Olympics, and action continued with plenty of exciting medal events on Friday. Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix made history, while the U.S. men's 4x100-meter ...

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 ...

Australia has completed a golden first night in the pool at the Rio Olympics, with two stunning legs from the Campbell sisters setting up victory in the 4x100 metres freestyle final and breaking the ...

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 ...

An eventful morning for the U.S. women's 4x100-meter relay team left it with a solo run Thursday night to qualify for Friday's final. Allyson Felix was attempting to hand the baton to English Gardner ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Allyson Felix and LaShawn Merritt are two savvy track stars who’ve been around long enough to know that not everything always goes to plan. Over the final, topsy-turvy 30 minutes of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — It was a disaster, pure and simple. And then, a reprieve. The U.S. women's 4x100 relay dropped the baton on the second exchange on Thursday in the qualifying heats, knocking them out ...

After winning the men’s 200 meter finals on Thursday, Usain Bolt will compete in his final Olympic career event as the anchor of Jamaica’s 4×100 meter men’s relay team against a field that features ...

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 ...