Team USA standout Jack Alexy sets a world record in the 100-meter freestyle at the USA Swimming short-course trials
Jack Alexy set a world record in the men’s 100-meter freestyle on Saturday, touching the wall in 44.64 seconds at the 2026 USA Swimming Short Course World Championship Trials in Westmont, Illinois. Alexy, who competed for the United States at the 2024 Paris Olympics and swims for California, broke the previous mark of 44.84 seconds. […]
American Masai Russell wins gold in women’s 100-meter hurdles
Masai Russell followed in Noah Lyles’ footsteps at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, winning the women’s 100-meter hurdles by a waist length. Russell returned to the podium by beating Sirena Samba Maiera by one hundredth of a second, finishing in 12.33 seconds to Samba Maiera’s 12.34. Jasmine Camacho Quinn of Puerto Rico won the bronze […]
Noah Lyles celebrates 100-meter Olympic gold with girlfriend Junelle Bromfield
American Noah Lyles became the fastest man in the world on Sunday and celebrated his gold medal with girlfriend Jenelle Bromfield in an affectionate moment photographed on sprinting’s biggest stage. The photo shows Lyles and Bromfield, the Jamaican Olympian who will be paired with Lyles in 2022, embracing each other after Lyles beat Jamaica’s Kishane […]
Noah Lyles captures Olympic gold in 100-meter in wild finish
Noah Lyles is the fastest man in the world. And it took him just 9.79 seconds to do it, with a photo-finish moment just before the finish line. And it would return the United States to the top of the world sprinting stage for the first time in decades. An aerial view of the finish […]
Sha’Carri Richardson settles for Olympic silver in 100-meter downer
Sha’Carey Richardson, the star American runner who won a silver medal in the 100 meters at the 2024 Paris Olympics, was wrapped in the Stars and Stripes on the rain-soaked track at the Stade de France on Saturday, but there was still a smile on her face. It wasn’t the gold medal, won by St. […]