In July and August 1996, the world sent its finest athletes to Atlanta. Some athletes came as familiar names from familiar nations. Others had toiled in obscurity. Each came proudly to Atlanta, and ...
It has been 25 years since Donovan Bailey electrified the world of athletics, and an entire nation, with a blazing, world record sprint down the stretch of Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Stadium. Eight ...
Editor’s Note: This story was published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday, July 28, 1996, as high drama hit the track at Olympic Stadium. This is a daily take of the events that transpired ...
Donovan Bailey still looks ready to take on all comers on the track—from the chin up, he jokes. Sitting in the comforts of his own home and chatting over Zoom, the first man to be 100m Olympic ...
The 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto are officially underway. The games kicked off Friday night at the Rogers Centre with an extravagant opening ceremony featuring plenty of Cirque Du Soleil acrobats, Pan ...
Many years before Donovan Bailey sat down in the corner conference room overlooking Queen Street West, down where ice pellets were attacking pedestrians like tiny daggers to the face, he outlined how ...
Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey will run the final race of his career on home soil despite bone spurs in both heels. Bailey, who has announced he will retire at the end of the season, said yesterday ...
KINGSTON (Reuters) - Former 100 metres world record holder Donovan Bailey has backed Usain Bolt to bow out in triumph at the world championships next month despite his slow buildup to the athletics ...