Andy Green broke the speed of sound in the mighty jet-engined Thrust SSC in 1997. The 63-year-old former RAF fighter pilot, whose land speed world record of 763.035mph has stood since 1997, is chasing ...

Team USA's Noah Lyles celebrates after winning the men's 100-m final at the Paris Olympics on August 4, 2024. Credit - Jewel Samad–AFP/Getty Images The world’s fastest man is still the world’s fastest ...

Usain Bolt, the man synonymous with speed, has admitted that even climbing a flight of stairs has now become a struggle for him. The world-record holder said climbing stairs leaves him out of breath.

It is the morning after he became the fastest man in the world and, while hardly anonymous, there is certainly an understatement to Oblique Seville that stands in stark contrast to Noah Lyles, the man ...

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Back in 2024, Yohan Blake, the second-fastest man in history behind Usain Bolt, opened up before the Paris Olympics, saying, “My own country Jamaica doesn’t give me the respect.” In 2025, he revealed ...

Sept. 8 (UPI) --A serial Guinness World Record-breaker from Spain defeated one of his own titles by running 328 feet backward in 16.55 seconds -- while wearing high heels. Christian Roberto López ...

Records are made to be broken, and few significant benchmarks go unchallenged for long. But Andy Green has been the holder of the world land speed record for nearly three decades, and remains the only ...