Usain Bolt has had one of his most sprinting records taken from him as the World Athletics pond a controversial change to the ...

German film director and Nazi sympathiser Leni Riefenstahl lived until she was 101, yet she once lamented: “My life would ...

But he had to wait until 2018 to finally get his hands on one of those little gold statuettes. He won at his 14th attempt for ...

Charles King of Belle Vue CC won the 1933 Southern Counties 5-mile title, and after finishing third in the Olympic tandem trial at Herne Hill, with Alan Stubbs of Norwood Paragon, it was felt he would ...

Fencer Hans Esser claimed a bronze medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics with the foil team, and came fourth with the epée team. He competed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, but with no successes in the ...

Special Olympics athlete Thomas Cantara won the T20 division at the Boston Marathon for the second year in a row.

It is the lightest and most expensive marathon running shoe in history and, at its launch in the shadow of Nelson’s Column in ...

Yet another famous architectural landmark is the Olympiastadion, a Nazi-era stadium that played host to the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Accessible via the Pankow U-Bahn stop. For a glimpse at the ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz has promised to support the German Olympic body DOSB in a potential bid to ...

A former athlete may have invented the downfall of Usain Bolt’s status as the fastest man of all time. Bolt set the world ...