ROME (Reuters) - Spain's Jordan Diaz leaped a massive 18.18 metres, the third best jump of all time, in a triple jump thriller at the European Championships in Rome on Tuesday, also breaking a 26-year-old championship record to take the gold medal..
(Reuters) -Brazilian former Olympic pole vault champion Thiago Braz has been banned for 16 months after he was found to have violated anti-doping regulations, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said in a statement on Tuesday. The 30-year-old, who won O.
(Reuters) - Kaylee McKeown continued her excellent form, swimming the fifth fastest 50 metres backstroke of all time to win the Australian Open Championships on Friday, where Ariarne Titmus also impressed. The 22-year-old had already set Australian.
(Reuters) - Brazil will host the Philadelphia Eagles versus the Green Bay Packers on Sept. 6, the opening weekend of the new season, the NFL said on Wednesday. The clash, at the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo, will be the first NFL game in South Am.
After running the length of Africa, British extreme athlete Russ Cook said he only considered quitting once during his near year-long odyssey after he got kidnapped in the Congo by a gang armed with machetes. Cook's 16,000-kilometre route took him up the continent's west coast, battling sandstorms and blistering heat, injuries and food poisoning, and his team were even robbed at gunpoint in Angola.