TWO more dissimilar Olympians would be hard to imagine. Al Oerter is 32 and white, a hulking 260-pounder who lives with his wife and two children on suburban Long Island and works as supervisor of the ...

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The setting was green and gray, and only green and gray, when the old man stepped into the ring for his final throw. It was June 25, 1980, the Olympic Track & Field Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, ...

Lake Placid — Student artists Eris Heald of Moriah Central School, Leah Coolidge of AuSable Valley Central School, and Santino DeBella of Beekmantown High School were awarded the gold medals on March ...

LAKE PLACID — Five hundred art students from the Olympic Region counties of Clinton, Essex, and Franklin begin participation next week in a seven-week winter art-in-sports educational program. The ...

Paris (AFP) – Paralympic discus thrower Jeremy Campbell secured his fourth title and then said he needs to reflect whether he goes for a fifth in Los Angeles to beat legendary fellow American Al ...

Paralympic discus thrower Jeremy Campbell secured his fourth title and reflected on whether to aim for a fifth in Los Angeles, potentially surpassing the legendary American Al Oerter's record of four ...

Mijain Lopez has written himself into Olympic history, eclipsing the likes of Michael Phelps with an absurd never before seen feat. Phelps won the 200m medley in every Olympics between Athen 2004 and ...

Vincent Hancock is now the sixth Olympian ever to win four gold medals in the same event, joining Al Oerter (USA, discus), Paul Elvstrom (Denmark, sailing one-person class), Carl Lewis (USA, long jump ...

Cuban wrestler Mijain Lopez became the first athlete to win five consecutive individual Olympic gold medals in the same event with victory in the 130kg Greco-Roman category. Lopez, who turns 42 in two ...

PARIS — It was at 9:40 p.m. that Olympic record books opened and Katie Ledecky, nine times golden, splashed in once again. Thousands stood and saluted the perpetual queen of distance swimming. "Katie!