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Police said a highly intoxicated man who survived when multiple freight train cars rolled over him is "the luckiest guy alive." Police Major Kevin Lemke said Canadian National Railway employees reported they ran over someone lying between the tracks and did an emergency stop about 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
Short track speedskater J.R. Celski is confident he'll recover from a deep gash to his leg in time for February's Vancouver Olympics.
Dover Motorsports Inc. is ceasing operations at Memphis Motorsports Park after a deal to sell the track to another investor fell through.
American skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender became the latest Monday to complain about the access organizers of the Vancouver Games are granting to their Olympic venues.
For seven years, the IndyCar series tried to woo fans to its season-opening race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Nothing really worked. Half-empty stands were almost an annual guarantee.
Get out the fake soul patches and bandannas. Apolo Anton Ohno is going back to the Olympics.
Gov. David Paterson said Tuesday he was trying to save the long-troubled New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. by signing an executive order authorizing it to go to bankruptcy court and effectively reinvent itself.
In a drive to inoculate people against swine flu before winter, many European governments say they will fast-track the testing of a vaccine, arousing concern among some experts about safety and proper doses.
Harvey Glance of Alabama and Chandra Cheeseborough of Tennessee State will coach the U.S. track and field team at the world championships in Berlin next month.
So much for the Oregon coronation. Instead, Texas A&M was the school that made track and field history.
USA Track and Field entered a partnership Tuesday with a company that helps athletes find out if supplements they're thinking about taking are free of banned substances.
Stefan Nimke of Germany has won the men's 1-kilometer time trial at the track cycling world championships.
Lithuania's Simona Krupeckaite set a world record in the women's 500-meter time trial Wednesday on the opening day of the track world championships.
The CEO of USA Track and Field recommends paying athletes $15,000 for setting a personal best at the Olympics and shortening trials to improve the team's performance after a disappointing effort in Beijing.
They asked for a candid review of their problems and they got it — 69 pages of unflattering details, uncomfortable advice and a laundry list of possible solutions for the U.S. track team.
The head of USA Track and Field gave a pointed speech Thursday to leaders in the supplement industry, accusing them of helping ruin a sport wracked with scandals involving performance-enhancing drugs.
Train drivers in the Netherlands are facing an unusual new obstacle — skaters on the tracks.
With temperatures around freezing, the bobsled-skeleton-luge track in Lake Placid opened for the season Monday morning, allowing more than 100 American sliders to officially begin on-ice training.
Commuters reunited Monday for the first workday since a deadly train crash, embracing fellow riders — many known only by sight — and mourning those who died in the accident.
The new leader of USA Track and Field analyzed the team's underwhelming performance at the Beijing Olympics — including dropped batons and a record-low men's gold medal count — and judged the federation's overall performance to be "seriously deficient."
Bill McMichael braked his new Ferrari F430 Scuderia into the turn, downshifting as he went into the corner. Then he punched it on the straightaway. Pedal down, engine whining an octave higher, the sleek, black car closed in on 140 mph within seconds.
Sanya Richards clutched this medal, stared at it, smiled at it. A few feet away, Allyson Felix did the same. These weren't their first prizes of the 2008 Olympics. But these were the medals the Americans wanted. Gold. Elusive gold.
It was a long wait for Allyson Felix. It felt every bit as long for Muna Lee. Felix, Lee and American teammate Marshevet Hooker easily made it through the first round of 200-meter Olympic qualifying Tuesday morning by winning their heats.
Tyson Gay stuck his left hand behind him, waiting to feel the red baton's cool metal make contact.
American sprinter Tyson Gay says his hamstring is feeling better and he'll be healthy and ready to go when the Olympic 100-meter races start next week.
World's Luckiest Train Track Inspector (video)You're working on the rails. Checking the track. Just another day at the office... What can possibly go wrong?
Fla. school district restricts athletes' clothingTAMPA, Fla. -- A Florida Gulf Coast school district is trying to prevent track athletes from practicing in limited clothing, despite complaints it could subject them to heat stroke.
Track hero of Beijing Olympics Usain Bolt goes from Kingston to Big Apple in N.Y. minuteThe man does look after his body and knows his limits.
The Case of Caster SemenyaPicking the category for this one was tough, its about an athlete(sports), who is intersex (health/science) and the debate over whom she should be allowed to compete against (politics). Ms. Semenya does what most humans hate... she doesn't fit prettily into a labeled box.
Train misses drunken teen napping on trackA drunk French teenager narrowly escaped death on Sunday after falling asleep on a railway track and slumbering undisturbed as a high-speed train roared over him, police said.
What Makes a Woman a Woman?Should all female athletes be gender-verified, as they were in Olympic competition until 1999? (The practice was dropped because no competitive edge was proved for the few women with rare disorders of sex development — it served only to humiliate them.) Should the entire practi …
IAAF Has Gender Test Results on Runner Semenya Runner... Both Male and Female?In an e-mail to The Associated Press, IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said Thursday he couldn't confirm a story in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald newspaper stating that tests show Semenya has male and female sexual organs.
Embattled Track Star Caster Semenya Gets MakeoverIt's been a week of change for Caster Semenya, the South African runner at the center of a gender controversy at last month's world track championships.
New Way to Track Your Home Energy Fuel UsageFuelstart.com, an online resource for home energy recently launched Fuelcharts a portal for homeowners to monitor their energy usage using the internet.
- News: Palin Plans to Stay in PoliticsThough Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin will leave office at the end of the month, she plans to stay involved in national politics. According to the Associated Press, she confirmed that she will write her book, but will also help campaign for candidates that share her views.
We went to the Prefontaine Classic a couple of weeks ago, on June 7th, 2009 in Eugene, Oregon. This is our third consecutive year enjoying this event. The day was beautiful albeit a bit warm to permit any world records from falling.
One-girl Track Team Wins Texas State Title AgainBonnie Richardson, from tiny Rochelle, Texas (population 600), has accomplished what no other Texas high school track and field athlete has ever achieved: back-to-back team state championships – by herself.
'Cone of silence' keeps conversations secret - tech - 09 May 2009 - New ScientistThis article in New Scientist speaks of tracking employees and bombarding them with "White Noise" to prevent them from hearing the person standing near them.
National sex registry has not solved a single case: PoliceCanada's national sex offender registry, created almost five years ago for police to track offenders after they leave jail, has not been responsible for solving a single sex crime, say police.
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Aussies beat Britain to women's team sprint goldAustralian pair Anna Meares and Kaarle McCulloch stunned defending champions Britain to win gold in the women's team sprint final at the world track cycling championships Thursday.
Taylor Phinney Grabs Gold PursuitAmerican teenager Taylor Phinney struck gold in the men's pursuit to end the United States' 16-year wait for the title at the UCI World Track Championships in Poland Thursday.
Meyer leaves 'em gaspingAustralia's Cameron Meyer won the tough battle in the points race to be crowned World Champion in Poland on Wednesday.
Taylor Phinney sets a new American record in qualifying for the 4K pursuit, then wins the gold in World Cup final. | The Journal of Competitive Cycling.American Taylor Phinney broke a thirteen year old American record for the 4,000-meter individual pursuit.
Metra North Central trains to run MondayCommuter service on Metra's North Central Line will be back to normal on Monday after a freight-train derailment early Friday shut down the tracks, piling up 17 cars and angering thousands of riders stranded in the bitter cold.
Britney Spears - Circus - Pop CD Review at TheCelebrityCafe.comExcerpt: Britney Spears is back (not that she ever really left)! The pop star's new CD dropped this week, and it does not disappoint. Spears is known for her contagious beats, and Circus carries on this legacy with songs that basically force the listener to sing along.
On The Download: Britney Spears' 'Circus' ReviewWith Links to Various Britney things: Photos and PLAY IT NOW: Britney Spears Lights Up Los Angeles PLAY IT NOW: Britney Takes The Boys Toy Shopping In NYC! ------------ Excerpt: To give a true assessment of a Britney Spears album, one has to listen to it in the context of th …
Akon: 'Michael Jackson Comeback Ruined By Internet Leak' - GIGWISEExcerpt: US rapper Akon has revealed that a collaboration with Michael Jackson was dropped from his new album because the song leaked online. The song, entitled 'Hold My Hand', was praised by fans when it appeared last summer, with many heralding it as Jackson's comeback.
Siblings hacked PC, used GPS to track—maybe kill—fatherThe appropriateness of using of modern technology to spy monitor children and adolescents has been hotly debated over the last few years, particularly as GPS technology has matured and become capable of identifying one's exact location rather than a general area.
'Collective Intelligence' threatens to create world Orwell could only dream ofPropelled by new technologies and the Internet's steady incursion into every nook and cranny of life, collective intelligence offers powerful capabilities, from improving the efficiency of advertising to giving community groups new ways to organize.
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