The American women’s 4x400 relay team was disqualified from the preliminary round at world championships after their third and fourth runners in the four-lap race bungled the baton exchange.

Recent allegations by WNBA player Dearica Hamby that her coach harassed her for being pregnant have shined a renewed spotlight on one of the biggest challenges that female professional athletes face.

Fans of swimming, gymnastics and track & field can rejoice.

Serena Williams says she’s stepping away from tennis soon to focus on having a second child.

Sydney McLaughlin took the last victorious lap of an All-American world championships.

Allyson Felix came out of a brief retirement to help the women's 4x400 relay make the final at world championships.

Allyson Felix hasn’t run her last race after all.

Allyson Felix won her 19th and final medal in the world championships Friday night — a bronze she took after running the second leg of America’s 4x400-meters in the mixed relay that’s been touted as the last major race of the 36-year-old’s career.

Allyson Felix was named to her 10th world championships team, where she will have a chance to run in the mixed relay event and add to her record medal collection.

Allyson Felix has “no regrets” after a seventh-place finish in the 200 meters of what was likely her final Diamond League meet.

Allyson Felix, who closed the Tokyo Games last year with more Olympic medals than any U.S. track and field athlete in history, says she will retire after the 2022 season.

Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah bested her gold-medal winning time in Tokyo at the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday, and Sha’Carri Richardson finished last in her return to the track after controversy.

Sha’Carri Richardson is set to compete again after missing the Tokyo Olympics because of a positive marijuana test.

Over nine days at the near-empty Olympic Stadium, the women of track and field delivered a memorable show.

Allyson Felix has won her 11th Olympic medal by combining with her American teammates to finish the 4x400-meter relay in 3 minutes, 16.85 seconds for a runaway victory.

The pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games finally come to a close after an exhausting, enlightening and sometimes enraging run.

The second to last day of competition at the Tokyo Olympics produced a gold medal bonanza for the United States.

Day 15 of the Tokyo Games will feature the American women going for gold in basketball, volleyball and water polo.

Marcell Jacobs backed up his shocking 100-meter victory with another totally unexpected gold for Italy in the 4x100-meter relay at the Olympics.

Allyson Felix finished third in the 400 meters to win her 10th medal and become the most-decorated woman in the history of Olympic track.

The new medal standard in Olympic women’s track has been set.

Set the alarm for Day 14 of the Tokyo Games and watch Allyson Felix attempt to win a 10th track and field Olympic medal over breakfast.

It’s one thing to be a new mom: Unpredictable, frazzled, busy; you’re trying to get to know your baby, heal your body and maybe even breastfeed, which can be unfamiliar and challenging, especially at first.

The final night of swimming gives Caeleb Dressel and four-time Olympic medalist Simone Manuel more chances to collect hardware on Day 8 of the Tokyo Games.

The Tokyo Games got their first swimming individual world record and a fast start to the track competition on Day 7 of the Olympics.

Caeleb Dressel is expected to be the star of Day 7 at the Tokyo Games as he seeks his third gold medal in Friday night coverage of the Olympics.

Allyson Felix is headed to her fifth Olympics.

Sprinter Gabby Thomas one day wants to work in health care.

Brittney Reese made her fourth Olympic team in the long jump with a leap of 23 feet, 4 3/4 inches to win the event at the U.S. track and field trials.

Hurdler Sydney McLaughlin’s knee was bloody.

Gwen Berry raised her fist, thumped it against her chest two times and set off on her quest for an even bigger stage to spread her message.

Athletes spend months, sometimes years, obeying strict diets that are geared toward the goal of making the Olympics.

Allyson Felix made her fifth Olympic team when she finished second in the 400 meters at U.S. track trials.

Garrett Scantling won the decathlon with a personal-best score of 8,647 points to earn a spot at the Tokyo Olympics.

Sha’Carri Richardson breezed to a win in the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials to secure her spot at the Tokyo Games.

Ryan Crouser broke a 31-year-old world record in the shot put at U.S. Olympic trials with a heave of 76 feet, 8 1/4 inches (23.37 meters) that also qualified him for the Tokyo Games.

And to some, the odds seem greater, this time, that what the athletes are calling for might actually come to pass. We get paid to go out there and play and do our job. All this stands in stark contrast from the predominant attitude of athletes during Jordan's prime an attitude Jordan himself embodied. Among the more than four dozen Black athletes who are part of the cause are Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes and Olympic champion sprinter Allyson Felix. Black athletes and celebrities have not been fully welding their power.

The IOC earlier this year reiterated its support of the rule that restricts protests inside the lines at the games. But in the aftermath of protests that stemmed from George Floyd's killing in May, the committee said it would consider measures that would allow athletes to make stronger protests. Among the board members signing off on the statement are Allyson Felix, Christian Taylor, Emma Coburn, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Berry was an outspoken critic of the USOPC earlier this year when it made public shows of solidarity with Black athletes, suggesting the USOPC never reached out to her on the issue. The USOPC has formed an athletes' group to look into ways to combat racism, which could include calling for changes in the rule known as Rule 50.

(AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)GENEVA In a track and field season almost entirely wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic, athletes and organizers are setting new marks in creativity. On Thursday, the storied Weltklasse meet will broadcast near-live from Zurich in an ambitious mix of social distancing and technological innovation. If this is what the new normal is for this period then lets attack it full on, the reigning Olympic and world champion said. Simply running on an actual track surface Felix in California, Taylor in Florida will be different with training facilities closed during the pandemic. Four months in the planning, the most complete track meet of the outdoor season is not expected to be a template for the near future.