Track

LONDON (AP) — The American sprinter took a mighty tumble. Nobody, however, has fallen harder than Jamaica so far at this year’s world championships. The evening after Usain Bolt‘s improbable loss to a pair of U.S. runners, the world’s best sprint island watched the red, white and blue paraded around the track once again at […]

LONDON (AP) — The Latest from the track world championships (all times local): ___ 6:40 p.m. The crowds have already cheered for gold at the world championships. In a special ceremony to upgrade athletes who initially finished behind medalists later caught for doping, the U.S. women’s 4×400-meter relay team finally got its gold from the […]

Usain Bolt? Nobody has been a match for him, on or off the track. The man who reshaped the record book and saved his sport is saying goodbye. His sprints through the 100 meters and Jamaica’s 4×100 relay at the world championships, which begin Friday, are expected to produce golds yet again, and leave track […]

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The judge in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius said Friday that she will give a verdict on Sept. 11, ending a televised trial that stretched for five months and transfixed South Africans and others around the world. Judge Thokozile Masipa made the announcement after the prosecution and the defense […]

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The chief prosecutor in Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial said Thursday the double-amputee athlete’s lawyers have floated more than one theory in a dishonest attempt to defend against a murder charge for his killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel made the allegation during final arguments in the sensational trial […]

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A judge has temporarily adjourned the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius after the athlete started to sob while testifying about the moments before he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his home last year. Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who had accused the double-amputee runner of tailoring his account of events to […]

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A subdued Oscar Pistorius on Tuesday described dinner at home, chatting and looking at cell phone photos with Reeva Steenkamp on the last night of her life. Then he erupted in anguished howls and heaving sobs while testifying at his murder trial about the moments when he says he realized […]

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Testifying in his murder trial on Tuesday, Oscar Pistorius said he and girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp sometimes had troubles in their relationship but that they sorted them out, were in love and were planning a life together. Prosecutors say Pistorius was often jealous and overbearing in his relationship with Steenkamp and […]