Ethiopian Mare Dibaba lived up to her billing as the world's fastest marathon runner by winning the grueling event at the world championships in a sprint finish on Sunday.
Edward O. Wilson, the world's greatest authority on ants, said, "Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies ... I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."
Periods of intense training for two African athletes at a Finnish javelin school have overturned the natural world order in the physically demanding and technically challenging event.
With a strange choice for background music blaring around the Bird's Nest, Yarisley Silva attempted to clear 5.01 meters in the pole vault shortly after winning her first gold medal at the world championships.
Sharapova hopes to rebound from leg injury and a broken romance
Favorites for the title at the US Open, which begins on Monday:
Serena Williams is trying to ignore "the elephant in the room" ahead of the US Open.
Former world No 1 John McEnroe says Nick Kyrgios is buckling under pressure and has urged the young Australian to look to calmer contemporaries to pull himself back into line.
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