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.
Young athletes prospering under mentorship of top-notch coaches China's new wave of track and field athletes are prospering under the guidance of a "magnificent seven" of foreign coaches.
Overseas training camps have helped boost the confidence of Chinese sprinters when they race against the world's elite.
Texas dynamo achieves his boyhood dream of becoming world's best player
The battle for a $10 million jackpot that goes to the winner of the four-event FedEx Cup playoffs begins on Thursday in The Barclays at Plainfield Country Club.
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