The 2026 World Cup may only be 10 days old but the tournament has already rewritten football history. BBC Sport takes a look ...

Kate Douglass is the first American woman to hold the 50m freestyle world record in 40 years.

Noah Lyles claimed a world record on Tuesday. The United States' track star ran a time of 14.67 seconds in the 150-meter at ...

A Texas teen is strutting into the Guinness World Records as both the woman and the teenager with the world’s longest legs.

I was like, this could potentially be a world record,” Aries Merritt said. Merritt, an assistant coach for Texas State, was ...

Ready, set, go break a record. As elite athletes compete for top accolades in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, at least a few world records will undoubtedly fall. But some of the Olympics’ speediest ...

It may not be on the same level as a U.S. win over Australia’s national men’s soccer team—created in 1922. But Seattle’s ...

As a child I loved Tom Thumb, the perfectly formed human who was only a couple of inches tall; he roamed the countryside while sitting on the back of a mouse or hitched a ride in the ear of a horse.