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Channeling the 1992 Summer Olympics, X Games has taken over some of the most iconic venues in Barcelona.

I am still wrestling with the IOC's shocking and inexplicable decision to drop wrestling from the Summer Olympics while preserving the modern pentathlon (which was expected to get the boot). Wrestling is a sport that is popular worldwide. It goes all...

Claressa Shields' boxing gold medal hasn't brought endorsements or TV interviews, but the 17-year-old isn't giving up the fight.

This was high jumper Amy Acuff's fifth time at the Summer Olympics, and, for once, there was also summerlike weather Thursday to go along with it. "I had to come to London to get a day that it wasn't pouring rain," Acuff said. "Atlanta, Sydney, ...

Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings still haven't lost at the Olympics and never will, not after ending their 12-year run of dominance with a third and final gold medal.

Yes, it takes two days and the scoring is complicated, but decathlon is not boring, Jim Caple writes.

LONDON -- Allyson Felix was talking to a couple of reporters about winning her 200-meter semifinal Tuesday evening when she was interrupted by the loud, repeated squeals of France's Myriam Soumare. Soumare wasn't hurt or scared or in danger. She w...

Lolo Jones commands eyeballs, but the attention should be on Dawn Harper, Kellie Wells and the other Americans who earned medals on the track Tuesday.

LONDON -- Wallace Spearmon is confident he can beat Usain Bolt in a race. Of course, he is talking about an auto race. "We both have the same car, a Nissan GTR," Spearmon said after Tuesday's 200-meter heats. "I kind of told Bolt about it and he w...

LONDON -- Liu Xiang won the gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles at the 2004 Athens Olympics, but his most inspiring performance was Tuesday morning in a race he officially did not finish. Liu has run swiftly and cleared hurdles gracefully enough t...

While there's "no crying in baseball," Monday brought plenty of sob stories in track and field.

A day after winning gold in the 400, the American sprinter was back on the track. She won her heat to earn a spot in the 200-meter semifinals.

Phelps. Bolt. Douglas. Wow. And that was only the first week of the Olympics. It might get even better.

Aaron Ross has celebrated two Super Bowl victories. His wife, Sanya Richards-Ross, won her own Super Bowl in the form of a gold medal in the 400.

Tyson Gay had gone through so much to reach the London Olympics. Which made his finish in Sunday's 100-meter final all the more heartbreaking.

When Americans do pay attention to track and field, the marquee events are always the sprints. For good reason. But on Saturday night, Mo Farah and Galen Rupp might have nudged that interest toward distance races.