The athlete who perhaps best summed up the meaning of track’s new experiment, the Ultimate Championship, isn’t an ultimate champion herself.

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden ran the fourth-fastest 200-meter time in history, 21.47 seconds, busting through the curve to wrap up a $300,000 weekend by completing the sprint double at Ultimate Championships.

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden ran a world-leading 10.62 seconds, blowing away Julien Alfred at the Ultimate Championship and grabbing a $150,000 first prize and a victory in what became a back-and-forth, three-week, best-of-three series between the reigning Olympic and world champions.

Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles surged to 100-meter wins at the U.S. track and field championships on Friday night.

Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles cruised through their first-round races of the 100 meters on Thursday at the U.S. championships.

Kenney Bednarek is a two-time silver medalist at the Olympics, and he's training in Central Florida for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and four other Olympic medalists are among those owed six-figure sums by Grand Slam Track, the racing league that filed for bankruptcy earlier this month.

Sha’Carri Richardson picked up speed down the stretch and turned her opening run in Tokyo into a season-best.

Track turned into a contact sport when sprinter Kenny Bednarek shoved Noah Lyles after Lyles beat him to the finish line in the 200-meter final at U.S. championships.

The 200 meters is supposed to be the easy half of Noah Lyles' historic Olympic sprint double.