Athletics

News Hour Kohei Uchimura’s eight-year reign as the undisputed king of gymnastics came to a dramatic end on Monday after the hobbling Japanese star was eliminated during qualifiers at the World Championships. Reigning Olympic champion Uchimura,...

News Hour World 800 meters champion Pierre-Ambroise Bosse suffered multiple facial fractures in a violent assault which has ended his season, he said on Wednesday. The 25-year-old Frenchman, who won gold in London at this month’s...

News Hour The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeals filed by two Chinese women weightlifters who were stripped of the gold medals they won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics after failing doping...

News Hour Mo Farah brought down the curtain on his peerless track career in Britain by winning his farewell race on home soil on an emotional afternoon at the Birmingham Grand Prix Diamond League meeting on...

News Hour British Athletics great Mo Farah will hope his final track race on home turf on Sunday will have a happier ending than last Saturday’s world 5,000 meters final. The 34-year-old, who will compete in...

News Hour Double Olympic champion Christian Taylor continued his dominance of the triple jump when he won his third world title on Thursday, once again beating fellow American Will Claye into second place, reports Reuters. Taylor...

News Hour An emotional Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic said it felt “so easy” to regain the javelin world title she first won 10 years ago at the World Championships on Tuesday. The world record...

News Hour Usain Bolt will run in the 4×100 meters relay heats for Jamaica on Saturday despite being a bit sore after winning bronze in the 100m final at the weekend, he told Reuters on Monday....

News Hour An Australian swimmer plans to attempt a world-first non-stop quadruple crossing of the icy English Channel, a torturous feat never before tried and widely considered impossible. Chloe McCardel, arguably the greatest ultra-marathon swimmer ever,...

News Hour 35-year-old Justin Gatlin has won the men’s 100 meters at the IAAF World Championships in London, with Usain Bolt only managing 3rd. Justin Gatlin upset all-time great Usain Bolt to win the men’s 100...