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Track and field's Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix made the cut, so where is swimming's greatest of all time?

By Jonas Shaffer

Mar 21, 2018

Phelps and Leonidas have both been compared to gods, but really, there is little else in common.

By Jonas Shaffer

Aug 11, 2016

Baltimore's Toni-Ann Williams, the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year last season for the University of California, realizes that regardless of whether she reaches the Rio Games next August, she has done plenty to boost the sport in her parents' homeland where megastar sprinter Usain Bolt is the most well-known and popular Olympian.

Anthony 'Ace' Valentine returned from the AAU Junior Olympic Games with gold medals in the 400-meter dash and the long jump.

We welcome the media's interest in American Sign Language interpreters. They bridge the linguistic divide between the hearing world and the deaf world. And in doing so, they perform a valuable service. But if the media approach American Sign Language as entertaining performance art, they are perpetuating a fallacy. And if the media believe that interviewing celebrity sign language interpreters obviates the need to communicate with deaf individuals, then this new trend is not just surprising;

Eight-year-old Anthony 'Ace' Valentine is on his way to a solid track career.

No longer a professional athlete, Sanjay Ayre is now using his world class experiences here in Howard County, as a personal trainer and coach at Howard Community College.

Down the stretch is a daily Orioles Insider blog that will set up the coming night for the O's and their American League competition as the push for the postseason continues.

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge finally acknowledged Sunday that Usain Bolt is the greatest sprinter in history.

Musical closing ceremony wraps up London Games

Michael Phelps' post-competition goals won't deviate from the causes he's always championed.

If NASA can stick its 'terror' landing on Mars, can't the next generation of U.S. students be properly educated in math and science?

British seem wary of hosting Olympic Games as security and traffic concerns rise

Fifty percent of Americans planning to watch the Olympics expect Phelps to be the biggest male star in London. That significantly trumps LeBron James, who finished second (17 percent), and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, who came in third (8 percent). Serena Williams won the women¿s category (43 percent).