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 ...

At her first Olympics in Tokyo, long jumper Tara Davis competed alongside the Black women she idolized as a young girl. Now, the 22-year-old is paving her own path and using her platform to ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Black History Month and Blind Awareness Month, he tells BBC Sport how it feels to jump a world record without sight. READ MORE: The best of Black History Month 2021 Subsection ...

Ralph Boston won the long jump at the Olympics in 1960 and got two more medals at the next two Olympics. He shares his life story, incredible anecdotes, breaking world records, meeting Muhammad ...

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 Jumper Blessing Okagbare Loses Wig During Competition, And As Usual, ... her leap caused her long black wig to fall off in the sand, exposing a low, natural cut.

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 ...

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 ...