Tyler Farrar, a 27-year-old road cyclist from rural Wenatchee, Wash., learned young that he wasn't any good at baseball or basketball. Football didn't work out. Hockey? Not so much.
Brittney Reese will have to wait a few months to try and capture an Olympic gold, but she'll get to hand out a few medals in the mean time.
He's been known to compete in a swim cap decorated with the Orioles logo and has become a familiar sight at M&T Bank Stadium when the Ravens are home.
LONDON -- The Olympic stadium, the beating heart of the Games when the world's greatest athletes come to London in 82 days' time, was formally opened on Saturday by a nine-year-old girl who lives down the road.
In the four years since he made history at the Beijing Olympics,Michael Phelps concedes losing his focus.
Jamaican Olympic champion Usain Bolt held his nerve after two false starts by competitors and powered to the year's fastest 100 meters at the Jamaica International Invitational on Saturday.
It is a cool, overcast morning in Irvine and 10 swimmers of varying skills are taking a lesson in one corner of the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The hype machine got in gear one day late last September, when an NBC Sports senior vice president came to Missy Franklin's house in suburban Denver to meet her and her parents and talk about the network's plans for the 16-year-old swimmer leading up to its broadcasts of...
WAKEFIELD, Mass. — For more than a year, the guilt and shame overwhelmed Kayla Harrison, even though she had done nothing wrong.
The day began as so many have forMichael Phelps: at Meadowbrook pool in Mount Washington, where the mileage he has swum over the years would have gotten him to London a long time ago. But on this Saturday, the Baltimore swimmer's...
Patrick Husson has come a long way since walking on to the UMBC swimming team as a freshman in the fall of 2010. Now, he's one of three Retrievers hoping to compete in his country's Olympic swimming trials for a spot in the Summer Games in London.
It was a swimmer’s version of a busman’s holiday: During some rare time off last week from her intense training at Baltimore’s Meadowbrook pool, Allison Schmitt decided to visit ... the National Aquarium.
Michael Phelps' surprising decision to swim the punishing 400 individual medley at the Indianapolis Grand Prix on Friday was a topic of discussion today as elite swimmers began arriving for one of the last meets before the London Olympics four months from now.
Doubt and inconsistency had been Ashley Wagner's faithful travel companions until this year.
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. (AP) — Unheralded teenage middleweight Claressa Shields upset top-ranked Olympic hopeful Franchon Crews of Baltimore on Monday night in the first U.S. team trials for women's boxing.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In the same arena where Michelle Kwan won her first of nine U.S. Figure Skating Championships in 1996, on the night of Kwan's induction ceremony into the U.S. skating Hall of Fame, Alissa Czisny tried to channel a little of the Magnificent Michelle.
Seventh in a series of occasional stories.
Broadneck graduate Matthew Centrowitz won his semifinal heat of the men's 1,500 meters in 3 minutes, 46.66 seconds Thursday to advance to Saturday's final at the IAAF World Track and Field Championships in Daegu, South Korea.
For the U.S. team at the World Track and Field Championships, this was a day to reprise ancient history.
