Paralympic superstar Natalie du Toit's career is littered with ground-breaking achievements, but her latest - becoming the first amputee to qualify for the Olympic Games - might be the most amazing of them all.
what you do and don't do in the five days leading up to the race will make a big difference in how you finish and feel
Today, it was announced that Oscar Pistorius has made the 2008 TIME 100, the annual list published by TIME Magazine, which identifies the 100 most influential people in the world.
Visually-impaired marathoners dream big
A middle-aged woman arrives at yoga class, a guide dog beside her wheelchair. She slides onto a mat on the floor and begins warming up with help from the instructor, stretching her knee and leg muscles to the side.
The gruelling week-long stretch saw 50-year-old Dave Heeley run a total of 183.4 miles (293.4 kilometres) -- 26.2 miles a day -- in the Falkland Islands, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Sydney, Dubai, Tunis and London to raise money for guide dogs.
Um, congratulations, people on Segways! Yours is no longer the dorkiest-looking form of transportation known to humanity! (Also, congratulations to speed walkers for dropping down to third place.)
Background: Rodger Knight was on a family trip to Europe two summers ago when he saw a group of people, all over age 30 and with poles in each hand, walking an Austrian trail. "What struck me was they were really motoring, but none of them was labouring," recalls Knight.
he hasn't missed his daily run since Jan. 1, 1975, following an identical path from his Ocean Drive apartment to the beach, gingerly climbing over the coral-colored wall that separates the street from the sand.
The way we trim and tone our bodies changes by the decade: Running in the '60s and '70s, aerobics in the'80s, kickboxing and indoor cycling in the '90s. In recent years, power yoga and Pilates have strengthened our cores and flattened our abs.
Looking for a simple way to improve your health? Consider the lowly pedometer.
Many women, after learning they're pregnant, worry about the weight gain that is associated with it. It is not uncommon for some women to put on twenty to thirty pounds during their pregnancy, which, as you already know, can be tough to lose down the road.
Going into the Men's 400m final at the 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics from Osaka, Japan, Jeremy Wariner felt the 400m world record (Michael Johnson's 43.18) was attainable.
Competing in his first IAAF World Championships in Athletics for the United States, Bernard Lagat of Tucson, Ariz., brought home a gold medal in the 1500m, breaking a 99-year middle distance gold medal drought for his adopted nation.
U.S. marathoner Jenny Crain was struck by a car while on a training run and is in critical condition. As a result of this tragic accident, Crain remains in the ICU in a Milwaukee hospital.
Ethiopians and Kenyans took the top 9 men's places and the top 2 women's places at the Parkersburg Half Marathon on August 18, 2007. Russian women are also top competitors at this 13.1 mile distance.
Created by New York nutritionist Keri Glassman, the idea is simple: Instead of starving yourself and then overeating at meals, you should tame your appetite with a couple of healthy snacks a day.
I don't usually follow sports but this story seems to me to be about way more than sports
As Oscar Pistorius of South Africa crouched in the starting blocks for the 200 meters on Sunday, the small crowd turned its attention to the sprinter who calls himself the fastest man on no legs.
As Oscar Pistorius of South Africa crouched in the starting blocks for the 200 meters on Sunday, the small crowd turned its attention to the sprinter who calls himself the fastest man on no legs. Pistorius wants to be the first amputee runner to compete in the Olympics.
The prominence of professional sports in America places athletes on the highest pedestal of celebrity, praise and respect. This cultural phenomenon gets replicated in college athletics in the form of big time Division I athletic programs.
Deborrah Pittman, head of the computer science department at Bluefield State College in West Virginia, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1997 and sometimes uses a wheelchair. She lives in a state where one in four adults is disabled, the highest rate in the country.
A record field of runners have pounded the streets in soaring temperatures to complete this year's London Marathon.
Zhou Chunxiu, last year's Asian Games marathon gold medalist, became the first Chinese athlete to win the Flora London Marathon today. Sprinting to the finish line alone on the Mall, she broke the tape in 2:20:37 (unofficial). Between 35 and 40 km, Zhou got away from ....
In a finish reminiscent of the 2003 Flora London Marathon, Kenyan Martin Lel won a four-man sprint on the Mall to take his second title here in 2:07:41. He also won here in 2005.