RIO DE JANEIRO — Never bashful, Matthew Centrowitz always believed he could win at the Olympics. The American runner showed that supreme confidence on Saturday as he took the lead in the 1,500-meter ...

Pre-dawn gunshots in the Olympic Village. Muffled shouts as Palestinian terrorists burst into an apartment and seize Israeli athletes. A corpse tossed onto the sidewalk as a macabre calling card and ...

Former Seattle Times sports columnist Blaine Newnham understood that tracking down the biggest stories sometimes led you under the grandstands. That’s where Newnham, then with The Register-Guard, ...

Frosh Habtom Samuel rose like Lasse Viren from a fall — with just over 900m left— to win. (MIKE SCOTT) WITH NORTHERN ARIZONA’S Nico Young, the Collegiate Record holder, and XC champion Graham Blanks ...

Mika Nurmi, the grandson of Paavo Nurmi, was in the heart of the French capital for today's public opening of an exhibition in which his grandfather's Paris 1924 Olympic gold medals – an unsurpassed ...

FILE - Paavo Nurmi, of Finland, leads the field during a track at the 1924 Olympics in Paris on July 1924. The five Olympic gold medals won by Finnish running great Paavo Nurmi will be returned to ...

MONACO — The five Olympic gold medals won by Finnish running great Paavo Nurmi will return to Paris and be on display next month to mark a century since his unique achievement at the 1924 Paris Games.

On March 17 and 18 for the first time since 1983, Frank Shorter, American Gold Medalist in the 1972 Munich Olympic Marathon and Silver Medalist in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Marathon, met his long-time ...

Memories of the Munich Olympics were still vivid when the Waregem Hippodrome opened its gates to welcome the world to the inaugural World Athletics Cross Country Championships in western Belgium on 17 ...

Lasse Virén at Munich Olympic Stadium last fall during the filming of documentary, ” 72- A Gathering of Champions.” https://jewishjournal.com/wp-content/uploads ...