Jesse Owens

Dr. Milton Schlenhoff, a retired family practitioner, internist and physical fitness advocate, died Sunday at Sinai Hospital of complications from diabetes. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 81. Dr. Schlenhoff was born in Baltimore and raised on...

Usain Bolt loves the cameras, the cameras love Usain Bolt, and when they connected during his third win of these Olympics, he smiled that infectious smile and raised three fingers. As in: 3-for-3-for-3. As in: three events, three gold medals, three...

Michael Phelps has a new accolade. "He is the icon of the Games," International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said yesterday. The American swimmer had won five gold medals entering the 200-meter individual medley, setting five world...

They are both tied to the number seven, as in medals. They both swam six of the same events and set world records in all of them. They were both the talk of the sporting world. Yet one is tall and ripped; one was shorter and sinewy. One is modest; one...

A frenzy of golden energy, Michael Phelps exited the pool, shaking water off his lithe and lean body. Onto the pool deck splashed the droplets - those Baltimore roots, the memories from Greece and the immaculate show he'd just put on in China. It all...

You can have your superhero movies. I met a man who could fly without a cape. "It's been a long time since I've been in Baltimore. I jumped here once. Can't remember where exactly." Bob Beamon paused, snapped out of his internal time-traveling by a...

Jamaica's Usain Bolt became the ninth man to win the 100- and 200-meter dashes in an Olympics. Bolt is the first to set world records in each race at the Games. ++++++++++++++++++++ || || || || || || || || || || || || || YR || ATHLETE || COUNTY || 100...

Regarding "Obama isn't close to earning his stripes" by Charles Krauthammer (July 2): Charles Krauthammer may be right stating that Sen. Barack Obama has not earned the right to speak at the Brandenburg Gate, but his appearance in Germany will have...

ATHLETIC FEATS What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel, read by Ray Porter Blackstone Audiobooks Just in time for the Summer Olympics comes this extraordinary memoir about an enduring summer sport....

The Chinese have the right idea with this one-time-zone-per-country system. It's more efficient, obviously. But it also cuts down on intra-national squabbling that drags in the likes of NBC publicists and the ESPN ombudswoman, important people with...

How weird is the Olympics? Six months ago, most of the country had only a vague idea who Michael Phelps is. And this morning, when I turned on National Public Radio, they were talking about whether Phelps is the best athlete ever. That's right. These...

BEIJING — This is a story about legs. Two legs. One leg. And legs that don't work at all. Implicit in the Olympic motto "citius, altius, fortius," is that the leg — "tui" in Mandarin — will lift mankind faster, higher, stronger. On...