The California high school track star who discharged a fire extinguisher to celebrate her first-place finish in the state’s 400-meter final is mulling legal action after she was stripped of her gold ...

CIF officials stripped the state title from a high school sprinter for her 'unsportsmanlike' celebration with a fire extinguisher. She and her father spoke with The Times.

Clara Adams tells PEOPLE that before her race, she and her father, David Adams, came up with the idea to celebrate with the device as a way of paying homage to a past Olympian — and to add ...

Clara Adams, a sophomore track star at North Salinas High School, had her 400 meter dash title taken away after her dad handed her a fire extinguisher to celebrate on Saturday.

California track star Clara Adams and her father questioned why she was stripped of her state title for a celebration while trans athlete AB Hernandez was allowed to win.

North Salinas High sophomore Clara Adams, with her father and coach David Adams, during a press conference held by the Adams family and legal team in Salinas on Friday, June 6, 2025.

Despite an unprecedented state title disqualification, 16-year-old sprinter Clara Adams keeps her fire by Rashad Miller Clara Adams’ lighthearted celebration modeled after Olympian Maurice Greene ...

Civil rights leaders, and Republican and Democratic politicians, are calling for the CIF to reinstate gold medal to Clara Adams of Salinas. She sprayed her cleats with a fire extinguisher, which ...

Clara Adams, shown here earlier this season, won the state meet 400-meter race but was later disqualified. (John Devine — Monterey Herald) ...

C LOVIS — It was an expectation — the entire reason Clara Adams set foot on the track. Yet, after she appeared to have become a state track and field champion Saturday night, controversy ...