Star hurdler Liu Xiang proved to the world that China could compete in track events when he upended the field at the 2004 Athens Olympics to win the nation's first gold medal in athletics.
Olympic champion and high hurdles world record holder Aries Merritt will have a kidney transplant next week after competing in the world championships in Beijing, the 30-year-old American said on Wednesday.
Fraser-Pryce delights in being 'walking garden'
Shawn Barber was a little boy when he picked up the pole and copied what was his dad was doing - mostly because it looked like fun.
Usain Bolt has his lightning pose. Ezekiel Kemboi, Kenya's four-time world steeplechase champion, has his shimmy.
Sterling performances from a new generation of Chinese athletes has seen their market value surge.
Davis Love III's long victory drought is over. Tiger Woods will have to wait a while to get another chance.
Lydia Ko won the Canadian Pacific Women's Open for the third time and first as a professional on Sunday, beating Stacy Lewis with a par on the first hole of a playoff.
At 35, Justin Rose is hardly an old man; it just seems that way when you check the world golf rankings and see the top three players have an average age of 25.
Roger Federer jutted his right index finger toward the summer-blue sky to celebrate his latest Cincinnati title.
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