The pain mounted in DeHart Hubbard’s foot as he prepared for his final jump of the 1924 Paris Olympics. The 20-year-old was a track star from Cincinnati and one of four Black athletes ...

Quanesha Burks worked in fast food but held fast to her Olympic dreams that she refused to let die. Burks, 17, secured a spot on the U.S. Olympic team as a long jumper after working for a meager ...

Track and field was John Wise’s favorite sport in high school. As an adult, however, he had a nagging feeling that he could have been a star long jumper if his high school coached a more ...

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers and became the only woman to compete for the United States in the long jump at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, died ...

Long Jumper Blessing Okagbare jumped so high on the track that she literally snatched her own wig. In a now viral video from her performance at the Oslo Diamond League, the athlete can be seen ...

First-year long jumper Maud Zeffou-Poaty initially tried track and field to occupy her time. As she improved, her dedication to the sport transformed her into a standout long jumper in France. “At the ...

Long jump star Marquis Dendy secured victory at the World Indoor Tour Final in Birmingham whilst competing in a balaclava and a bucket hat. Dendy took to the arena on Saturday to compete in the ...

The pain mounted in DeHart Hubbard’s foot as he prepared for his final jump of the 1924 Paris Olympics. The 20-year-old was a track star from Cincinnati and one of four Black athletes ...

Long jump star Marquis Dendy secured victory at the World Indoor Tour Final in Birmingham whilst competing in a balaclava and a bucket hat. Dendy took to the arena on Saturday to compete in the ...

100 years ago, a Black long jumper made history at another Paris Olympics DeHart Hubbard became the first Black athlete to win an individual gold medal in 1924. His family is making sure his story ...