Women's track and field
A group of students from Uruguay pose for a souvenir picture on the Olympic Rings set outside the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Saturday, March 21, 2020. The Olympic flame from Greece arrived in Japan Friday, even as the opening of the the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices suggesting the games should to be postponed or canceled because of the worldwide virus pandemic. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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By The Associated Press Mar. 22, 2020 06:15 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 30, 2019 file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya smiles after winning the women's 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, in Stanford, Calif. Olympic champion Caster Semenya has run her first public race in eight months and says she will be back in top-level track despite currently being banned from competing in her favorite event. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Semenya switches to 200, still aiming to turn up in Tokyo

By Gerald Imray Mar. 13, 2020 07:18 PM EDT

Caster Semenya says she's switching to the 200 meters in bid to run at the Olympics

Mar. 13, 2020 07:15 PM EDT
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Caster Semenya says she's switching to the 200 meters in bid to run at the Olympics. ...

Jimmie Johnson leads the field during a five-wide salute to race fans prior to a NASCAR Cup Series auto race Sunday, March 1, 2020, in Fontana, Calif. (AP Photo/Will Lester)
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Mar. 13, 2020 12:22 PM EDT

FILE - In this file photo taken March 15, 2012, the 1952 Helsinki Olympic javelin champion Dana Zatopkova speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Prague, Czech Republic. Dana Zatopkova, the Olympic javelin champion and the wife of late athletics great Emil Zatopek has died, aged 97, the Czech Olympic Committee said Friday March 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, FILE)
Zatopkova, Olympic champion and wife of Zatopek, dies at 97

By Karel Janicek Mar. 13, 2020 09:36 AM EDT

Two women take a selfie with the Olympic rings in the background in the Odaiba section of Tokyo, Thursday, March 12, 2020. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike spoke Thursday after the World Health Organization labeled the spreading virus a "pandemic," a decision almost certain to affect the Tokyo Olympics. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Russia restricted to 10 athletes in track at Tokyo Olympics

Mar. 12, 2020 01:36 PM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2017, file photo, United States' Allyson Felix speaks during a press conference of the U.S. team prior to the World Athletics Championships in London. Early in her career, Allyson Felix would shy away from speaking on controversial subjects. The nine-time Olympic medalist stayed in her lane. Not anymore. Not since the birth of her daughter, Camryn. Felix wants her legacy to be improving maternity rights for athletes over her times and gold medals. "I feel like I'm right where I'm supposed to be," Felix said. "I feel stronger than ever, just with everything I've been through.”(AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Allyson Felix finds voice, new legacy through motherhood

By Pat Graham Mar. 12, 2020 07:14 AM EDT