Angered by Team USA’s botched baton handoff Friday at the Paris Olympics in the men’s 4×100-meter relay — the 11th since 1995 resulting in disqualifications or bans — nine-time Olympic gold medal ...

How does one become a nine-time Olympic gold medalist? Former track and field athlete Carl Lewis says it’s a lifetime of work. From 1979 to 1996, Lewis was a force to be reckoned with in sprinting and ...

On the 25th anniversary of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution presents a series of retrospectives produced by the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.

EUGENE, Ore. — Mary Lou Retton somersaulted her way into our consciousness and a nation rejoiced. Carl Lewis won four gold medals, waved an oversized American flag and no one even stood to salute.

Evelyn Lewis, co-founder of the Willingboro Track Club and mother of track and field legends Carl and Carol Lewis, died on Tuesday. “She leaves a long-lasting memory and changed the world one student ...

A proposed format change could shake-up the long jump at major track and field competitions, but will the idea take flight? That’s the big question for those involved in the sport right now, notably ...