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Pietro Mennea, an Olympic sprint champion from Italy who held the world record in the 200 meters for 17 years, died Thursday. He was 60.

Usain Bolt will race in the 200 meters at the Areva Meeting in Paris on July 6 as part of his preparations for the world championships.

Olympic champion Usain Bolt will compete in the Bislett Games for the third straight year when he races in the 200 meters at the Diamond League event.

Ryan Lochte broke his own world record in the 200-meter individual medley on Friday at the short-course world championships in Turkey.

Usain Bolt will aim for a three-peat of Olympic sprint titles in the 100 and 200 meters at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, rather than trying out a new event.

The Aga Khan's Ridasiyna rallied from well off the pace to collar Izzi Top in the final 200 meters and score a clear win the Qatar Prix de l'Opera on Oct. 7 at Longchamp.

For Isaiah Brandt-Sims, speed isn't an issue. The 5-foot-11, 172-pound running back (Wenatchee, Wash./Wenatchee) has won back-to-back Class 4A state championships in the 100 and 200 meters. The junior also puts up the kind of numbers that bring...

After years as the poster boy of the Paralympics, a chastened Oscar Pistorius moved Monday to defuse the row that threatens to blemish the clean-cut image he forged during a protracted struggle for acceptance within his sport.

A month after his groundbreaking Olympic debut, Oscar Pistorius was reeling from a stunning upset Sunday in the London Paralympics.

Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake have set Weltklasse meet records despite rain and cold wind at the Diamond League event on Thursday.

Usain Bolt, the two-time Olympic gold medalist in the 100 and 200 meters, is thinking of the long jump next.

Usain Bolt clocked 19.58 seconds to win the 200 meters at the Athletissima Diamond League meeting on Thursday.

There was joy, there was triumph, and there was exuberance when Sanya Richards-Ross and Allyson Felix each captured their first individual Olympic gold medals in the 400- and 200-meters, respectively, this past week. But above all, perhaps, there ...

Usain Bolt took a momentary break from basking in his historic Olympic sprinting double to fiercely criticize former U.S. athlete Carl Lewis.

ESPN's George Smith looks at Usain Bolt's victory in the 200 meters and Ashton Eaton's gold-medal win in the decathlon:...

Sure, Usain Bolt can run 200 meters faster than anyone else in the world, but let's see him do it on a broken leg. Manteo Mitchell did exactly that when his left fibula cracked midway through his opening leg of the men's 4x400 relay. He didn't sto...