Manteo Mitchell reached the halfway point of the opening leg of the 4 X 400 meter semifinals at the London Olympics, when he took an awkward step, felt a twinge and let out a battle cry in pain. “I ...

Gabby Thomas stepped out in style this week, sharing a fresh set of sunlit photos to Instagram on Tuesday, December 9, that ...

Sprinting is a motor task for humans using maximum physical features and demands considerable training. In this regard, an understanding of the leg morphology of sprinters from a biomechanical ...

A University of Southern California sprinter is recovering after being shot in the leg three times at a Halloween party. USC track coach Ron Allice says Bryshon Nellum's Friday night surgery was ...

Bulgarian sprinter Georgi Kirilov Georgiev suffered one of the ugliest injuries I have seen in some time. His leg, it just did some unnatural things. Tis but a flesh wound. I dare you to get through ...

USC's Bryshon Nellum was told about three years ago that he might never again compete at a world-class level after he was shot in the legs as he walked home from a Halloween party. Follow Bryshon ...

LONDON — Manteo Mitchell felt the pop in his leg and knew it wasn’t good. “It felt like somebody literally just snapped my leg in half,” he said. The American sprinter had half a lap to go in the ...

Oscar Pistorius has two carbon fiber blades for legs. Despite that, he can run 400 meters in 45.07 seconds. And South Africa, his home country, is sending him to the World Championships to compete ...

A comprehensive knowledge of human biomechanics is useful for training athletes more effectively. From a biomechanical perspective, sprinting is challenging in comparison to walking and endurance ...