As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, Newsday looks at the most memorable individual performances by American athletes in which they represented their country in world competition.

Here's everything you need to know about the 2026 Prefontaine Classic, including TV channel and streaming options for the ...

The Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics will be an unprecedented event that will make history as the first Olympic ...

Not yet 23, Mykolas Alekna has performed exalted “old boy” feats in the discus as a Cal collegian. (DON GOSNEY) DISCUS THROWERS ARE like fine wine. It takes time for them to properly ferment. The ...

For Spartanburg High School rising senior, Riley Vaughn, success in the throwing circle didn't happen overnight and her eyes ...

For Spartanburg High School rising senior, Riley Vaughn, success in the throwing circle didn’t happen overnight and her eyes ...

The 51st annual Prefontaine Classic returns to Hayward Field July 3-4 and, as usual, every event is loaded with talent. World record-holders, Olympic champions, world champions, NCAA champions and ...

An Iola fifth-grade athlete is taking the local track and field community by storm after qualifying for the Junior Olympics nationals in discus and shotput.

American record holder Sam Mattis put together a series that included three throws better than 68 meters, with a top mark of 68.19 to win the men's discus Saturday at the LA Throws Cup in Wilmington.

The Les Mills International brand is now known globally for choreographed workouts set to music, like Body Pump and Body ...

Former New Zealand Olympian Les Mills has died at the age of 91. Mills, who competed in discus and shot put at four Games between 1960 and 1972, later went on to found an international fitness brand ...

Les Mills, the New Zealand Olympian who opened an Auckland gym in 1968 that grew into an international group-fitness brand, ...