This is where the name of the long distance run — the "marathon" — gets its name. PARIS, FRANCE – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was founded in France. It decided that the event ...
Sifan Hassan is about to run 41 miles in nine days. The Dutch star is already among the ... Hassan is the only athlete to collect medals across two long-distance events and a middle-distance race in a ...
approved the addition of two distance races, the 3,000 meters and marathon. Which isn’t to say women had never run long distances in the Olympics. At the first modern Games in Athens in 1896 ...
The longest speed skating race of the 2022 Winter Olympics commences Friday as six pairs of athletes get one shot for the 10,000m gold medal. The Netherlands rule the long distance, as Dutch skaters ...
I have had a lifelong love of both history and the Olympics. Kenyan distance runner Hellen Obiri ... that would revolutionize the sport of running. (From L) Silver medallist Ethiopia's Feyisa ...