Oct 14, 2017 | News, Track and Field
Billy Mills took up running to get in shape as a boxer while attending an Indian school for orphans and went on to score one of Americaís greatest track triumphs. “Iím flabbergasted, I can hardly believe it,” the Marine lieutenant beamed today after...
Sep 3, 2017 | News, Track and Field
NEW YORK TIMES MUNICH, West Germany-With a fancier flourish than ever was used by Paavo Nurmi and Finlandís other great Olympic distance-running champions of yesteryear, the 23-year-old Lasse Viren rebounded from the brink of disaster to win the classic...
Aug 30, 2017 | News, Track and Field
NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO-For more than two decades, it was considered the one record that would stand for the ages: Bob Beamon’s extraordinary long jump in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. If the record would ever be broken it would have to come in the thin air of...
Aug 28, 2017 | News, Track and Field
NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK-Sebastian Coe of Britain ran the mile in 3 minutes 47.33 seconds at an international track and field meet in Brussels tonight, marking the third time in 10 days that the world record for the distance had been broken. Coe, 24 years old, regained...
Aug 25, 2017 | News, Track and Field
TOKYO-For all the amazing races and remarkable long jumps, the gold medals, records, titles and honors that have defined Carl Lewisís life in track and field, little of the past could have foretold his stunning performance tonight in the 100-meter final of the...
