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Just six days after her Boston Marathon victory, Tatyana McFadden (Clarksville, M.D.) celebrated her 24th birthday by capturing the women's wheelchair race in the London Marathon, held April 21. Smashing the course record with a time of 1:46:02, McFadden dedicated her win to the city of Boston in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Fellow American Amanda McGrory (Kennet Square, Penn.) placed second.TEAM USA SOARS IN FED CUPVenus Williams (Saginaw, Mich.) and Serena Williams (Saginaw, Mich.) led Team USA to victory over Sweden, 3-2, at the 2013 Fed Cup World Group Playoff, held April 21 in Delray Beach, Fla. After eight match points, Venus Williams put away Sweden's Johanna Larsson, 6-3, 7-5, marking her first Fed Cup tie in 10 attempts. The win guarantees the U.S. a spot in the coveted 2014 Fed Cup World Group.BASKETBALLJabari Parker (Chicago, Ill.) led the U.S. Men's Junior National Select Team with 22 points, seven rebounds, three steals and two blocks at the 2013 Nike Hoo...
China asserted its position as the world's diving superpower at the 2004 Athens Olympics, winning six of eight events. The Chinese have only gotten better.Four years...
Reigning Olympic champion He Chong of China was the top qualifier Tuesday in the men's 3-meter springboard.He scored 510.15 points on six dives while Russia's Ilya Z...
Russia's Ilya Zakharov became the first non-Chinese diver to win a gold medal at the London Olympics.Zakharov used a big final dive Tuesday night to beat Qin Kai and...
For Lolo Jones, once again a medal was so near and yet so far away.On a night when the United States track and field team grabbed four medals -- none of them gold --...
Russia's Ilya Zakharov led the men's 3- meter springboard after the preliminary round Monday and reigning Olympic champion He Chong of China was second.American Troy...
American LoLo Jones returns to Olympic Stadium on Tuesday to take a shot a redemption in the 100-meter hurdles.Jones was a favorite in this event at the 2008 Beijing...
On a night when the lack of American men in the 400 meters was conspicuous, Jenn Suhr filled the void for the United States with a shocking win in the women's pole v...
China is 4-for-4 in diving at the London Olympics.Qin Kai and Luo Yutong won the men's synchronized 3-meter springboard at the Aquatics Centre on Wednesday, taking t...
Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, hours after they both chipped in to get Phelps the all-time Olympic medal record, both moved on in the men's 200-meter individual med...
Steven Holcomb (Park City, Utah) and Steve Langton man bobsled world title at 19 in Lake Placid, N.Y. The pair edged a Canadian team by a margin of .46 seconds for a...
The men's epee team scored the U.S. its first world championship title in history at the 2012 World Team Championships on April 14 in Kiev, Ukraine. The quartet of S...
Anna Tunnicliffe's (Plantation, Fla.), Molly Vandemoer (Stanford, Calif.) and Debbie Capozzi (Bayport, N.Y.) won the ISAF Sailing World Championships in women's matc...
Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, Alaska) became the first American woman to break into the top three overall at a FIS Cross-Country World Cup on March 24 in Falun, Sweden....
U.S. ice dancers Meryl Davis (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Charlie White (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) captured their second world ice dancing title at the 2013 ISU World...
Troy Dumais and Kristian Ipsen took control over the last two rounds and built a 27.33-point lead in 3-meter synchro at the U.S. Olympic diving trials on Monday nigh...
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No matter what happened on the final dive Kristian Ipsen and Troy Dumais were already bound for London. Chris Colwill didn't have that security.With his Olympic hope...
Decathlete Ashton Eaton (Eugene, Ore.) set a new world record at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field after recording 9,039 points on June 23 in Eugene, Ore....
After Troy Dumais and Kristian Ipsen won the men's synchronized 3-meter springboard title at the U.S. trials without a dive above a 3.5 degree of difficulty, Dumais ...