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The double-amputee sprinter known as the "Blade Runner" is steadily stealing Usain Bolt's stage at the world championships....

Usain Bolt was eliminated from the 100-meter final Sunday at the world championships because of a false start. The world-record holder and defending champion jumped the gun...

Missy Franklin skipped a few steps. A talented 16-year-old with high school swim meets, chemistry and proms in her future, Franklin figured to turn some heads at these swimming world championships. Get her name out there. But she hasn’t merely shown she belongs. She’s gone straight from just-happy-to-be-here to burgeoning superstar.

Ryan Lochte has set the first world record since high-tech body suits were banned in swimming, breaking his own mark in winning the 200-meter individual medley at the world championships.

Serbia knocked defending champ Spain out of the world championship Wednesday when Milos Teodosic made a long 3-pointer with 3.1 seconds left for a 92-89 quarterfinal victory.

For young, established N.B.A. players, the possibility of not being needed on the national team can be an eye-opening experience.

South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the South African sports ministry said Thursday. The ministry also said in a statement that the International Association of Athletics Federations has agreed to allow the 18-year-old Semenya to keep her prize money.

A South African government minister called on Leonard Chuene to resign after the national athletics chief admitted he knew Caster Semenya had undergone a gender test prior to the world championships.

For those who thought Michael Phelps was just stopping by for a Roman holiday, no way.

Beaten the night before in the 200 freestyle, he sets a mark in the 200 butterfly. For Michael Phelps, the 200-meter butterfly was almost like coming home, and if you want to keep that domestic theme intact, he called it his "bread and butter."