Athing Mu-Nikolayev hasn't raced an 800m in nearly a year, but is ready to run at the 50th Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field and on a track where she has authored so much history already at age 23.

The comeback attempt by Trenton native Athing Mu-Nikolayev to reestablish herself as the top women’s 800-meter runner in the world ran into another major roadblock on Friday night when she failed to ...

LOS ANGELES — Just as so much of American track and field’s history has been written between the white lines of Hayward Field, so has the storied venue chronicled the life and times of Athing ...

Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, whose 1962 flight into space set an endurance record at the time, has died. He was 74. Mr. Nikolayev had a heart attack July 3 in Cheboksary, the capital of his native ...

The second half of the 20th Century saw humans set out to space for the first time. The Soviets and the Americans were at the forefront of this exciting new adventure and were competing against each ...

Leonid Nikolayev, a prominent member of the Russian dissident art collective Voina, died following an accident while cutting timber outside Moscow on September 22. His death was announced by Voina ...