The effects of the Boston Marathon bombings are rippling across track and field as the sport kicks off its spring season.
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Since host countries are allowed to field teams for every sport in the Olympics and the country might not have a team for every sport, they often muster one.
But to be honest, it has to do with the overall culture here in Jamaica, wherein track and field is a major sport, and athletes, for instance, are trained from an early age about how to sprint.
And the Madden game still has enough pull to bring former NFL greats back to the field to play the sport they continue to love, even if these days they're only making those amazing highlight reel plays virtually.
TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) Rain and wrecks pushed NASCAR to the edge of darkness Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, where three of the biggest names in the sport led the field to final flag.
On the field and off, Australian sport is arguably at its lowest ebb since the Montreal Olympics in 1976, when the country failed to win a single gold medal - a setback that led to the creation of the much-admired, and much-aped, Australian Institute of Sport.
"Personally for me, I'm delighted to be back on the field, " he told BBC Sport Wales.
Even the premiere Olympic sport, track and field, will appear here on television hours after the results are known.
As the game spread into new countries and was adopted by different cultures, fresh ideas about how to maximize the collective talents of 11 players stationed across a soccer field were instrumental in transforming the sport and the way it was played.
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All athletes in a sport, like track and field, become suspect even though the majority, he believes, are clean.
According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, more than 1.1 million high-school boys played contact football in the 2011-2012 school year, which makes the game nearly twice as popular as the No. 2 prep sport, outdoor track and field.
Elephant polo, played primarily in countries like India, Nepal and Thailand, follows similar rules as the traditional sport, though the pitch (or field) is a bit smaller, players wield longer mallets made from cane or bamboo and two people ride the elephant: the player and the mahout who steers the animal.
Collingwood told BBC Sport that the side had not practised on the field on Saturday but instead had discussed the performance against the Netherlands.
Two Humvees belonging to the Dale County Sheriff's Department and a tan, military-style personnel carrier were parked in a field beside the bunker throughout much of the ordeal, along with sport-utility vehicles.
The sport is the sixth-most popular sport for boys by participants, behind football and track and field and ahead of tennis, swimming and golf.
In all, the Rangers should be praised for their epic frugality, the Giants should be lauded for an unbelievable turnaround of fortunes relative to the last five years, and the sport in general has slowly begun to level its competitive playing field financially in large part due to revenue sharing.
As well as running the U2 Track and Field club, she also helps to organise and run competitions for British blind sport and travels all over the world to competitions.
Sport is kicking a ball of wrapped-up rags around a stony field.
Instead of being bound by the shackles of discontent and animosity that normally accompany the collective bargaining process, the sport can finally turn its attention to matters of importance regarding the on field product.
He says the whole notion of formations is "overvalued" in a sport that still basically boils down to 22 players chasing a ball across the field.
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More than a few people learn about sport by playing the video-game version rather than by running around the playing field.
Some were awarded for having created an earlier version of a modern sport, like China's claim to soccer or Mongolia's claim of field hockey.
Surely the collective influence of Christians such as Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, Sam Bradford, Colin Kaepernick, Josh Freeman and Drew Brees occupying the key focus of leadership on the field and, often, in the locker room makes their faith significant in the sport.
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Whitehead tried every sport he could including archery, swimming, cricket, gymnastics, canoeing, track and field and sledge hockey.
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