GULFPORT, MS - Hometown hero Brittney Reese is coming back to Gulfport with the gold. The 25-year-old took center stage Wednesday at the 2012 Olympic Games claiming a gold medal after jumping 7.12 ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Gulfport native Brittney Reese is heading to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. Reese is a four-time Olympian and seven-time world champion in the long jump. She won three ...

Brittney Reese means business, not only as she prepares for next month’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics, but also in taking her commitment to community service seriously. Suggested Reading List of Trump’s ...

Brittney Reese poses with the U.S. flag after her win in the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia in 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) A ...

Reese has dominated international long jumping in recent years and hopes to make history in Rio de Janeiro by becoming the first woman ever to repeat as gold medalist in the long jump. Since 2009, she ...

BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Serbian long jumper Ivana Spanovic finally moved out of the shadow cast by Brittney Reese to claim the world gold medal that has always eluded her and consign her ...