On Oct. 6, 1985, at the height of East Germany’s era of systematic state-sponsored doping, the country’s most celebrated sprinter delivered her most astonishing performance. Marita Koch demolished a ...

A decades-old world record once thought to be untouchable suddenly appears to be in serious jeopardy. On a rain-soaked track in Tokyo on Thursday, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone came closer to breaking it ...

Pouring rain and gusting winds do not make for fast times but then Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is no normal athlete. In appalling conditions at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, the world’s ...

Every record is meant to be broken, but some seem out of reach. In the NBA, the game is always evolving, with new talent constantly raising the bar and making the league more competitive than ever. No ...

And just like that, Wayne Gretzky’s unbreakable record has been broken. Well, one of them. Gretzky had more than his share. But for hockey fans of my generation, it really is hard to believe that ...

SPORTS RECORDS are sometimes described as unbreakable. Over the weekend Alexander Ovechkin, a star Russian ice-hockey player with the Washington Capitals, provided an object lesson in why claims of ...

Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic, with photos by Derek Cain / Getty Images and James Guillory / Imagn Images Not every NHL player is a hockey historian. Heck, some of them barely even ...