Jesse Owens

Dr. Milton Schlenhoff, a retired family practitioner, internist and physical fitness advocate, died Sunday at Sinai Hospital of complications from diabetes. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 81. Dr. Schlenhoff was born in Baltimore and raised on...

Jamaica's Usain Bolt became the ninth man to win the 100- and 200-meter dashes in an Olympics. Bolt is the first to set world records in each race at the Games. ++++++++++++++++++++ || || || || || || || || || || || || || YR || ATHLETE || COUNTY || 100...

Regarding "Obama isn't close to earning his stripes" by Charles Krauthammer (July 2): Charles Krauthammer may be right stating that Sen. Barack Obama has not earned the right to speak at the Brandenburg Gate, but his appearance in Germany will have...

ATHLETIC FEATS What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel, read by Ray Porter Blackstone Audiobooks Just in time for the Summer Olympics comes this extraordinary memoir about an enduring summer sport....

How weird is the Olympics? Six months ago, most of the country had only a vague idea who Michael Phelps is. And this morning, when I turned on National Public Radio, they were talking about whether Phelps is the best athlete ever. That's right. These...

Usain Bolt loves the cameras, the cameras love Usain Bolt, and when they connected during his third win of these Olympics, he smiled that infectious smile and raised three fingers. As in: 3-for-3-for-3. As in: three events, three gold medals, three...

A frenzy of golden energy, Michael Phelps exited the pool, shaking water off his lithe and lean body. Onto the pool deck splashed the droplets - those Baltimore roots, the memories from Greece and the immaculate show he'd just put on in China. It all...

BEIJING -- One flew through the Bird's Nest. Usain Bolt is his name. Track and field is his game. He comes from Jamaica, man. He runs like lightning. The wind can't catch him. No man can, either, man. Cheetahs would envy him. He is the world's fastest...

Michael Phelps has a new accolade. "He is the icon of the Games," International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said yesterday. The American swimmer had won five gold medals entering the 200-meter individual medley, setting five world...

BEIJING—Even if he's not the greatest Olympian ever, wouldn't winning eight gold medals mean Michael Phelps had the greatest performance ever in a single Olympics? Nope. I would put him fourth—at best. 1. Jesse Owens, United States, track...

BEIJING — This is a story about legs. Two legs. One leg. And legs that don't work at all. Implicit in the Olympic motto "citius, altius, fortius," is that the leg — "tui" in Mandarin — will lift mankind faster, higher, stronger. On...

The Chinese have the right idea with this one-time-zone-per-country system. It's more efficient, obviously. But it also cuts down on intra-national squabbling that drags in the likes of NBC publicists and the ESPN ombudswoman, important people with...