Olympics

The day Jackie Joyner-Kersee was called ‘the greatest athlete who ever lived’

Joyner-Kersee took back-to-back gold medals in the heptathlon at the 1992 Olympics

Simone Manuel: A letter to my younger self

The gold-medal swimmer remembers the doubts that came from feeling alone in the pool

Tori Bowie: A letter to athletes 50 years from now

Olympic sprinter says, ‘You have to know what you’re fighting for’

For Olympians Harrison Dillard and Herb Douglas, a friendship has endured since the 1940s

The oldest living gold-medal winner celebrates with oldest living African-American medalist

The reign of Lew Alcindor in the age of revolt

When black collegians debated boycotting the Olympics in 1968, he emerged as the most prominent face on campus

How black American athletes fared at Winter Olympics

Bobsledders Elana Meyers Taylor and Lauren Gibbs earned the lone medals

Jamaican bobsledder sends advice to Team Nigeria

And shares the story of the ‘swinging’ rent party that got them a sled

Former Olympian Surya Bonaly says don’t call her a rebel, call her fearless

In the ’90s, the French skater famous for her flips and athleticism faced a skating world that wasn’t ready for her

Debi Thomas: the first black athlete to win a medal in the Winter Olympics

Figure skater earned bronze in 1988