Having already secured the gold-medal Shaun White scores a perfect 100 on his final run in the X Games Snowboard Superpipe event
October 01, 2011British long jump champion J.J. Jegede clears 3 Mini Coopers. It looks cool but it's not actually that impressive. The jump is approximately 20 feet and his best is just over 26 feet. That's a pretty big margin for error.
Oscar Pistoriusis a double-amputee sprinter for South Africa and specializes in the 400m. In a BBC interview Tuesday he was asked if he thinks of himself as "an inconvenent embarrassment." Pistorius took it as an insult and left the interview.
For more on the dust-up head over to The Telegraph.
August 30, 2011On Monday at the IAAF World Championships, Dmitry Starodubtsev of Russia was attempting to reach a pole vault height of about 19 feet when his pole snapped in half. Luckily he landed safely on the mat but he injured his hand in the process and withdrew from the competition.