Herb Douglas, who turned a chance encounter with Jesse Owens as a teenager into fuel to win a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1948 Olympics, has died. He was 101. The University of Pittsburgh, ...

The 1936 Berlin Olympics are best remembered for Jesse Owens, who triumphed in a dramatic duel in the Olympic long jump against Germany's Luz... Was Jesse Owens' 1936 Long-Jump Story A Myth? The Track ...

BLOOMINGTON — Greg Bell, a gold-medal long jumper at the 1956 Olympic Games and member of the IU Athletics Hall of Fame, died Saturday at his home in Logansport. He was 94. Born in Terre Haute, Bell ...

Texans Tara Davis-Woodhall won gold and Jasmine Moore won bronze for Team USA in the women's long jump at the Paris Olympics on Thursday. Tara Davis-Woodhall's fourth jump was 7.10 meters securing the ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Greek long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou was named the Best Balkan Athlete of the Year for 2024 on Friday ahead of Romanian swimmer David Popovici and Serbian NBA star Nikola Jokic. The ...

Tara Davis-Woodhall, from Mesquite, won gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the long jump. The two-time Olympian is ranked number one in the world. On December 4, Davis-Woodhall took some time to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — From Jesse Owens ...

LeBron James thinks he could win an Olympic medal in the long jump. The basketball legend recently led Team USA to gold in Paris for the third Olympic title of his glittering career and has revealed ...

Olympic long jump champion Malaika Mihambo has said she has started fearing for her life in connection with the political shift to the right in Germany. "Of course, but fear doesn' help," Mihambo said ...

The Olympics ended over two weeks ago. We’re still hung over from all the athletic competition. But if there’s one thing that can get you excited about Olympic sports again so soon after the London ...

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers and became the only woman to compete for the United States in the long jump at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, died ...