Athletics and Track & Field - Summer Olympics

Visit the Athletics and Track & Field event page to get news, schedules, results and video during the Summer Olympics on ESPN.

10 Sports That Should Be in the Olympics But Aren’t

The Olympic program stays limited because the schedule is already tightly packed. Beyond housing thousands of athletes, ...

Amber Glenn Praises Alysa Liu's Friendship and Impact on Their Olympic Journey

Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu form two-thirds of Team USA's highly popular “Blade Angels” at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter ...

IBA President Umar Kremlev Will Pay LA Olympic Athletes if IOC Policy Doesn’t Change

IBA president Umar Kremlev said the organization will award prize money to Olympic boxers at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic ...

Caroline Harvey shares what wasn't seen during Team USA’s Olympic gold game

While the gold medal moment will live in hockey history, Caroline Harvey said life quickly returned to normal once the ...

Jake Paul surprises fiancée Jutta Leerdam with stunning gift after Olympics

Jake Paul surprised girlfriend Jutta Leerdam with a stunning gift several weeks after she won medals at the Winter Olympics.

What Olympic Athletes Eat to Have All That Energy

The athletes selected to compete at the most elite level must be extremely regimented to get there. That includes paying close attention to nutrition. We asked eight Olympic athletes—including ...

Olympic COVID restrictions are gone, but some athletes are still self-quarantining

For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind them. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in COVID times. Some athletes are taking extreme ...