track and field

The 25-year-old sold the medal, which was her first Olympic medal, for $125,000 to help raise money for the surgery needed for the Polish boy.

The Olympics are the home of miracles. When it comes to Olympic upsets, the United States’ 1980 “Miracle on Ice” against the Soviet Union tops the list. A team of mostly amateur players taking down the four-time defending gold medalists encapsulates what can captivate the world during the globe’s biggest sporting event. The Summer Olympics have played host to some…

Team USA hit the ground running and never looked back at the Tokyo Olympics. Over the nine days of exciting track and field action, Team USA won 26 medals: seven gold, 12 silver and seven bronze. Here are the highlights from a historic Olympic games for the U.S track and field team: Allyson Felix became USA Track and Field’s most…

Kara Winger was selected to be the flag bearer for Team USA to end the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Allyson Felix is the most decorated American track and field athlete in Olympic history, so we asked her to rate some of America’s most decorated places from one to 10. Watch to find out what she thinks of interiors like Los Angeles International Airport and the Oval Office.

See videos of the best Olympic moments from Tokyo, like Simone Biles’ beam, Sydney McLaughlin’s 400m and more.

The U.S. men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams both won gold after the men’s 4x100m team failed to advance. Here’s how they did it.

ROC jumper Mariya Lasitskene took gold in the women’s high jump, while Team USA’s Vashti Cunningham finished sixth.

In an Olympics full of fun celebrations, India’s Neeraj Chopra stole the spotlight Saturday night in Tokyo when he tossed his javelin into the sky and looked away before seeing how far his throw went. Chopra didn’t need to see his javelin land before extending his arms into the air in a moment of elation. He knew the toss,...

It came down to the final track event of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but the American men finally emerged with gold. Team USA cruised to victory in the men’s 4x400m relay, immediately following up the U.S. women’s gold in the same event. Michael Cherry, Michael Norman, Bryce Deadmon and Rai Benjamin, the bronze medalist in the men’s 400m hurdles,...

Allyson Felix now stands alone in American track and field history. The 35-year-old sprinter ended her Olympic career with gold in the women’s 4x400m relay at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium on Saturday. The medal was her 11th all time, breaking a tie with Carl Lewis for the most of any American track and field athlete. Felix ran the second leg...

Six runners beat the previous Olympic benchmark in a record-breaking men’s 1500m final, including sixth-place finisher Cole Hocker of Team USA.

Six runners beat the previous Olympic benchmark in a record-breaking men’s 1500m final, including sixth-place finisher Cole Hocker of Team USA.

Cole Hocker beat the previous Olympic record in the men’s 1500m on Saturday. And finished in sixth place. The 20-year-old American was part of a crazy final at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium that featured six runners shattering the previous Olympics mark to beat. Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen took home gold with a 3:28.32 mark, beating Kenyan Abel Kipsang’s Olympic record (3:31.65)...

Team USA runners Michael Cherry, Michael Norman, Bryce Deadmon and Rai Benjamin took gold in the men’s 4x400m relay, redeeming the U.S. men’s track team, which had yet to win gold at Tokyo. The Netherlands took silver and Botswana took bronze.

Some get a gold watch when retiring. Allyson Felix got one final gold medal. In what was the final race of her legendary Olympic career, Felix and the U.S. women’s 4x400m relay team of Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad and Athing Mu ran to gold on Saturday at the Tokyo Olympics. The quartet won in a time of 3:16.85, finishing...

After winning the women’s 4x400m relay on Saturday, the 35-year-old track star surpassed Carl Lewis’s record of 10 medals.

Allyson Felix won her 11th medal at the Tokyo Olympics, making her the most decorated American Olympian in track and field history,

Sifan Hassan may not hold the world record in the women’s 10,000m, but she now has the gold medal. Hassan in June set the 10,000m world record only to have it topped by Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey. The two were leading the pack for a majority of the 10,000m final at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, until Hassan pulled away...

After strong performances at the Tokyo Olympics, these five young U.S. Olympians could become stars at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.