Pickler disqualified from the 200 meters
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Heptathlon favorite Diana Pickler saw her hopes of finally winning an NCAA title in her last collegiate competition dashed Thursday when she was disqualified from the 200 meters, the last of her four events of the day.
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ARE, Sweden  - Bad weather hit the showcase event at the world Alpine skiing championships on Saturday when the men's downhill had to be postponed because of poor visibility on the upper part of the course.
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Sport: Athletics: Another British medal hope for world championships disappears with triple jumper's injury.
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Sprinter Michelle Collins was suspended for eight years for a doping violation linked to the BALCO scandal and will forfeit results that include 2003 indoor world and U.S. titles in the 200 meters.
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THENS, Aug. 29  Swimming&#39;s technique critic came in for some criticism of his own tonight in the shark tank disguised as the Olympic pool. But all&#39;s well that ends well on the medal stand and, despite being disqualified shortly ...
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A Greek athlete loses his medal after he tests positive, and a Russian is also reported to have failed a test.
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Britain's Darren Campbell struggles in 200m qualifying.
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An article last Thursday about cold-weather exercise misstated the accomplishment of Lewis Gordon Pugh last July while swimming near the North Pole. He completed a kilometer in just under 19 minutes, not a mile.
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A judo champion from Iran who said he would not compete against an Israeli athlete is disqualified from competition Sunday when he is found to be overweight.
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Olympic rowing hero James Cracknell has revealed a lack of hunger was behind his decision to take a year away from the sport. The 32-year-old, who was part of the British gold-medal winning coxless fours in
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Sprinter Michelle Collins has been suspended for eight years for abusing steroids, and will have to forfeit trophies that include 2003 world and US titles in the indoor 200 meters.
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The IAAF ruled Monday that double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is ineligible to compete in the Beijing Olympics because his prosthetic racing blades give him a clear competitive advantage
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Disgraced Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou finished out of the medal's when she finished sixth in the women's 60m at the European Athletics Indoor Championships here on Sunday.
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Loretta Harrop of Australia had been running alone for more than a half-hour, and only a few hundred yards of pavement separated her from a triathlon gold medal.
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 30, 2004 - A defrocked Irish priest with a history of disrupting sports events was given a one-year suspended sentence and fined $3,600 Monday for grabbing a runner who was leading the Olympic marathon with three miles to go.
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Christine Ohuruogu, a British runner who had been tipped to be one of the faces of the 2012 London Olympics, has been banned from competition for a year after missing three out-of-competition drug tests, UK Athletics announced on Friday.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The IAAF ruled Monday that double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is ineligible to compete in the Beijing Olympics because his prosthetic racing legs give him a clear competitive advantage.