MONACO — The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issu...
AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 11.20.2009 | Sports
JOHANNESBURG — South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gende...
AP | CHRIS LEHOURITES | Posted 11.18.2009 | Sports
LONDON — The prosthetic legs of double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius give the South African a 10-second advantage over a 400-meter race, acco...
Shannon Rowbury | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports
What matters most is the sense of pride in accomplishing a goal I had worked so long towards and the joy of sharing that success with the people that helped me to achieve it.
AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
PRETORIA, South Africa — Caster Semenya had heard the taunts and whispers – that she was different from other girls. Now the most intimate...
New York Daily News | By Oren Yaniv | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Tests show that controversial runner Caster Semenya is a woman ...and a man! The 18-year-old South African champ has no womb or ovaries and her testo...
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment
Men's sex advantage in some sports is not a sexist myth, as The Nation would have you believe.
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
The parents of Caster Semenya themselves deserve gold medals. If it were my daughter, I would be inconsolable.
AP | EDDIE PELLS | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home
BEIJING — Arms churning high, face twisted in pain as he sprinted toward the finish line, Usain Bolt kept glancing at the clock. The win in the ...
Meghan Peters | Posted 09.19.2008 | Entertainment
Liu Xiang was China's biggest hope at the Bird's Nest. The Games really won't be the same without him.
Courtney Woo | Posted 09.18.2008 | Entertainment
The fact that Bolt broke a world record challenges popular fears that poor air quality would mean poor performance at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 09.17.2008 | Home
BEIJING — Liu Xiang and the entire nation of China looked forward to this moment for years: The defending Olympic champion lining up to run the ...
AP | EDDIE PELLS | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home
EUGENE, Ore. — Allyson Felix felt no final-day pressure at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. She's just that good. Wallace Spearmon, Jen...
Bloomberg | Michael Buteau | Posted 07.07.2008 | Entertainment
Tyson Gay set a new U.S. record in the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials, beating Maurice Green's nine-year-old mark by .02 seconds....
Washington Post | Amy Shipley | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Track star Marion Jones has acknowledged using steroids as she prepared for the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney and plans to plead guilty tomorrow in New ...
AP | GRAHAM DUNBAR | Posted 11.20.2009 | Sports