On Oct. 6, 1985, at the height of East Germany’s era of systematic state-sponsored doping, the country’s most celebrated sprinter delivered her most astonishing performance. Marita Koch demolished a ...

TOKYO – On the hallowed list of world records in track and field, most marks are, indeed, made to be broken. Others are perched there, seemingly set in stone, beckoning all comers to dream of knocking ...

Pouring rain and gusting winds do not make for fast times but then Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is no normal athlete. In appalling conditions at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, the world’s ...