Clara Adams, 16, is fundraising to get her team to a national track and field competition. The CIF disqualified her for "unsportsmanlike" behavior after she sprayed her shoes with a fire extinguisher.

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 the ...

Adams tells PEOPLE that her celebration was an homage to a former Olympic track star The California high school track star who discharged a fire extinguisher to celebrate her first-place finish in the ...

"I wish I had my title," Clara Adams, 16 tells PEOPLE after she was stripped of her gold medal in the 400-meter state championship final Clara Adams was stripped of her gold medal after she won the ...

"I wish I had my title," Clara Adams, 16 tells PEOPLE after she was stripped of her gold medal in the 400-meter state championship final Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has ...