The Latest
Usain Bolt’s world record is smashed by 16-year-old sprint wonder
Nicholas Bramwell, a 16-year-old Jamaican runner, broke Usain Bolt’s Under-17s 400m world record. The record had been unbroken for 22 years. Bolt set the record in 2002 with a time of 47.33 seconds. This was six years before he won his first gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.
But now his fellow countryman Bramwell has done better. At the Carifta Games in Grenada’s Kirani James Athletics Stadium, Bramwell ran a time of 47.26 seconds, which was just under a tenth of a second faster than Bolt’s previous record.
USWNT legend Ali Krieger says she will come out of retirement to play with Heather O’Reilly in the TST Women’s Tournament
On Thursday, Ali Krieger, a two-time World champion and former USWNT defender, said she will play soccer again and join Heather O’Reilly’s team in the first Women’s The Soccer Tournament in June. Heather O’Reilly, Krieger’s old partner, put together the only all-women TST team and played against men’s teams last year. There will be eight women’s teams in the TST this time.
Rory McIlroy criticizes LIV Golf and the Official PGA Tour
People became a little more interested in professional golf when LIV Golf started a little more than two years ago. This was because of the competition with the PGA Tour and the mystery surrounding the new league. But that’s all gone now, and it looks like the competition between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour has been bad for professional golf in the long run.
Anna Davis doesn’t make it to the next round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur because of a terrible slow-play penalty
Anna Davis, who had won the Augusta National Women’s Amateur before, got a terrible penalty for the second year in a row at the fifth event. This time it was for slow play, and she missed the cut again.
Riley Gaines is among more than a dozen collegiate athletes suing the NCAA over transgender policy
Wednesday, more than a dozen college athletes sued the NCAA, saying that letting transgender woman Lia Thomas participate at the national championships in 2022 violated their Title IX rights. Riley Gaines, a former UK swimmer, was one of those athletes.