Olympic Track And Field News

Joy Gallant was pleasantly surprised by the waves of emotion that swept through her at the sudden appearance of a tall yellow flame cutting through the pounding music of the Olympic torch relay event in Charlottetown Saturday night.

Sprint stars Usain Bolt of Jamaica and Tyson Gay of the United States will race each other at least three times at elite Diamond League meetings next year.

Paul Wilmot couldn't help but think about the symbolism of the Olympic torch he carried Saturday morning through this Nova Scotia town.

Last year was one of the most productive years to come from the University of Utah women's track and field team.

Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards were named the 2009 Jesse Owens Award recipients on Thursday, the second time that each has earned the USA Track and Field honour.

China has started its build-up to the 2012 Olympic Games by interviewing track and field coaches over the past two days.

This is a June 4, 2009, file photo showing South Africa's Oscar Pistorius competing in the men's 400 meter event during the 10th memorial Primo Nebiolo international track and field meeting, in Turin, Italy.

In this Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008 file photo, Men's 1,500-meter gold medalist Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain licks his medal during the awarding ceremony in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, China.

For Immediate Release Tuesday, November 17, 2009 USATF announces 2009 Hall of Fame Inductees INDIANAPOLIS - Some of the greatest athletes of their generations, including track & field legends Joetta Clark Diggs, Andre Phillips, Randy Williams and Willie Steele, are joined by coach Dr.

Right : Steve Hooker , Matthew Mitcham and Ken Wallace . FEDERAL Government funding for some sports could be slashed under a radical plan to reduce the focus on winning Olympic medals in favour of encouraging public participation and community health.

Kaillie Humphries routinely drives her bobsleigh at eyeball-rattling speeds of 140 km/h through harrowing corners that would leave most of us praying for Gravol.

WITH 990 days to go until the start of the 2012 Olympic Games, I am thrilled to be visiting Yorkshire today to meet some of the many people who are inspired by, benefiting from and helping to deliver the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

In support of the 2010 Powersmart Manitoba Winter Games being hosted by Portage la Prairie in March of 2010, Canadian Olympic gold medalist Sami Jo Small was on hand Nov.

On the scale of Texas tall tales, Margus Hunt's story rates as the most outlandish since Hakeem Olajuwon curled out of a cab in front of the University of Houston nearly 30 years ago.

Few physical tests are tougher than a half-Ironman a ' 70.3 consecutive miles of swimming, cycling and running.

Patrick Ryan will continue his efforts to expand Olympic sports in Chicago, even after the city lost its bid for the 2016 Games.

Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati arrives at a Japanese police station to talk with Japanese authorities about his testing positive for marijuana use.

Rogue doctors and laboratories have taken the place of institutionalized doping as the most serious threat to drug-free sports, United States Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis T. Tygart said Wednesday.

Newswise - Dr. Peter Snell, adjunct associate professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a three-time Olympic gold medalist for his native New Zealand, has won yet another honor - " a knighthood in his homeland.

High achievements: Hooker produced an injury-defying performance to take out the world championship in Berlin in August.