(CNN) — Arriving in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, triple jumper Jonathan Edwards made an unlikely purchase in duty free. He decided to pick up a pair of sunglasses – not for sunning himself on the ...

A Texas cat recently earned a Guinness World Record by leaping a distance of 8 feet and 5 inches, the record for the longest jump by a cat. Oscar, a seven-year-old rescue cat from Dallas, had some ...

EUGENE, Ore. — Tara Davis-Woodhall survived a scare in the preliminaries before winning the U.S. title in the women's long jump on Thursday night with the longest jump in the world this season.

Tara Davis-Woodhall competes in the long jump in Times Square Athlos It was on Broadway, the home of theatre in New York City, where a one-off long jump competition became more of a show than an ...

That could explain why his triple jump mark has stood for so long, even with developments in nutrition, equipment and sports science. But Edwards also thinks that the record’s longevity boils down to ...