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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If your core workouts are feeling stale, add some variety to your training sessions by introducing the sprinter bridge, which ...

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 ...

BEAVERTON, Ore. — On a rainy day in Mississippi when he was just 16 years old, Richard Browne's life changed forever. He was jumping out of the rain into the front doorway of a laundromat when his ...

Bermudez and Lin are Times staff writers. One of USC’s top track athletes, who set state records as a high school sprinter in Long Beach, is in the hospital after being shot three times in the legs a ...

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 ...