Olympic triple-jump champion Christian Taylor knows all about putting his best foot forward. But in order to continue competing in the sport he loves, he’s had to go back to square one. Retrain his ...

Hop. Step. Jump. Hop. Step. Jump. No, that's not the latest dance craze, it's how track stars do the odd-looking but athletically impressive triple jump. It's a difficult discipline to master, but La ...

How are you going to spend your Fourth of July? Having a cookout, perhaps, or going to see the fireworks? Ryan McCoy has you beat. The William Fleming graduate will be competing tonight in the U.S.

ATHENS, Ga. --Great athletes routinely make the difficult look easy. In track and field, little, if anything, is more difficult than the triple jump. Sure, it's technically only a hop, step and a jump ...

Loughborough University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. No athletes arguably embody Pierre de Coubertin’s Olympic motto – “faster, higher, stronger” – more fully than those ...

It took just one jump: the first of the six attempts allowed by the rules. Hop-step-jump, immediately the sequence, and Andy Diaz extended it with gold. Gold at the World Indoor Athletics ...

In a valiant effort to add some interest to Saturday's track meet, Chris Ohiri shattered the oldest existing University record with a spectacular 48 ft. 7 1/2 in. effort in the hop, step and jump.