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 ...
The periodic domination of middle and long distance running by different regions of the world is not a new phenomenon ... As well as dominating the track events at the last several Olympic Games, they ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Olympic sprint champion Letsile Tebogo says ... "Starting the season with this long-distance challenge will set the stage for what's ahead," he said on Tuesday. "I'm ready to push my limits ...