Sports in Brief | Two track world records set
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Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia and steeplechaser Saif Saaeed Shaheen of Qatar set world records at the Van Damme Memorial meet yesterday in Brussels, Belgium.
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Hungary&#39;s Robert Fazekas was stripped of his discus gold medal and a Belarusian high-jumper was banned, setting a record for the number of doping violations at an Olympics.
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* With star swimmer Michael Phelps watching from the stands after giving his spot to teammate Ian Crocker, the United States won gold in the men&#39;s 400-meter medley relay in a world-record time of 3:30.
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Justin Gatlin became the fastest man in the world after winning the men&#39;s 100 meters dash at the 28th Olympic Games Sunday evening.
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CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh -- Captain Stephen Fleming set two national records as New Zealand took control on the first day of the second test against Bangladesh in Chittagong.
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Australia's Jodie Henry armed herself  with a world record while Michael Phelps targeted his fourth  Olympic gold medal backed by a Games record in qualifying for  Thursday's finals.
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Allyson Felix got her triple gold. U.S. teammate Bernard Lagat got a double for doing something no one had ever done at the track and field world championships.
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Saif Saaeed Shaheen of Qatar set a world record in the steeplechase at the Van Damme Memorial meet on Friday. The Kenyan-born runner, kept out of the Athens Olympics by the Kenyan
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American swimmer Aaron Peirsol set a world record of one minute and 50.52 seconds in the men&#39;s 200-meter backstroke final here Monday at the World Short Course Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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American Shani Davis breaks the track record Sunday in Inzell, Germany, winning his second 1,000-meter race in two days in World Cup speedskating.
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LIBBY LENTON swam the fastest 100 metres freestyle relay split of all time to anchor a world-record effort by Australia&#39;s women&#39;s 4x100m medley relay at the world short-course championships in Indianapolis yesterday.
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Olympic champion Ales Valenta set a world record with a combined points score of 262.76 for his two jumps Sunday in the second round of the freestyle aerial skiing World Cup.
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Justin Gatlin of the United States became the fastest man in the world after winning the men&#39;s 100 meters dash at the 28th Olympic Games here on Sunday.
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The United States has shattered a 17-year-old world record in the women&#39;s Olympic 800-meter freestyle relay.
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Sven Kramer broke his own 10,000-meter world record Sunday and made it a Dutch double at the World Allround Speedskating Championships, winning the men's overall title.
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Kenyan Bernard Lagat sets a meet record in the mile and blisters the competition with an impressive time of 3 minutes 52.87 seconds at the Millrose Games in New York.
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A series of unusually quick times in the men&#39;s 100 metres heats have sparked expectations of a possible world record in Sunday&#39;s Olympic final.