Olympic triple-jump champion Christian Taylor knows all about putting his best foot forward. But in order to continue competing in the sport he loves, he’s had to go back to square one. Retrain his ...

Hop. Step. Jump. Hop. Step. Jump. No, that's not the latest dance craze, it's how track stars do the odd-looking but athletically impressive triple jump. It's a difficult discipline to master, but La ...

ATHENS, Ga. --Great athletes routinely make the difficult look easy. In track and field, little, if anything, is more difficult than the triple jump. Sure, it's technically only a hop, step and a jump ...

Loughborough University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. No athletes arguably embody Pierre de Coubertin’s Olympic motto – “faster, higher, stronger” – more fully than those ...