It was the kind of early release day Purdue Poly students dream about all winter. They sipped slushees and chatted in front of the school's red-brick entrance. Students shot hoops on the basketball ...

A British startup plans to create a new wave of athletics records by reinventing the running track. London-based Feldspar is engineering the surface to maximise speed. It all starts with the flooring ...

In the 1960s, when traditional cinder athletics tracks were replaced by spongy, synthetic surfaces, endurance running experienced a revolution. Long distance runners began clocking far faster times on ...

The 400-meter running track at South River High School in Anne Arundle County, Maryland, was in bad shape. The rubberized surface was cracking, the asphalt had worn through the rubber in some places, ...