Category: Athletics

American athlete Devon Allen, the next wide receiver for the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles, posted the third-fastest time in history in the 110-meter hurdles, beating world champion Grant Holloway at Sunday’s meeting in New York. Allen, 27, signed a spectacular time

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The Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, queen of the triple jump, takes on the challenge of also competing in the long jump at the next World Championships in Athletics, Oregon-2022, after achieving the classification mark in this specialty on Wednesday. “Our goal is to reach the

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Greg LeMond, the only American to appear in the winners of the Tour de France, announced that this year he will not be accompanying the ‘Grande Boucle’ due to the treatment he must receive to cure leukemia. Three-time Tour winner (1986, 1989, 1990), Greg LeMond,

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Barring a sudden and unexpected conclusion to the war in Ukraine, Russian and Belarusian athletes will be banned from the next World Championships in Athletics, the largest international sports event since the end of the Winter Olympics and Paralympics. A representative of

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Sweden’s Armand Duplantis, world record holder and reigning Olympic pole vault champion, took victory on Friday at the Diamond League stop in Eugene, Oregon, United States with a mark of 5.91 meters. With victory already in hand, Duplantis made three unsuccessful

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The Dutch Ellen van Dijk broke the world record for the hour in the women’s category, which she took 49.254 kilometers, this Monday on the track of the Granges velodrome, in Switzerland. The time trial world champion improved by 849 meters the previous record, which

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Italian Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs returned to the 100 meters with victory this Wednesday at the international meeting in the city of Savona, in his first race over this distance since his double gold at the Tokyo Olympics. Jacobs, an Olympic gold medalist in the

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The Czech Zuzana Hejnova, 35 years old and former double world champion in the 400 meter hurdles, announced her retirement from sports on Tuesday, as she is pregnant. “I am going to have a child with my partner. It would be difficult to reconcile everything,” explained

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A decade after his first Giro d’Italia stage victory, Belgian rider Thomas De Gendt claimed his second win on Saturday in stage eight, with Juan Pedro Lopez retaining the leader’s pink jersey. De Gendt, with the help of teammate Harm Vanhoucke of the Lotto Soudal

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Playing Forrest Gump in the 1994 Oscar-winning film of the same name, lead actor Tom Hanks abruptly stops running after three years in a row and tells his followers: “I’m very tired, I think I’ll go to home now”. Jacky Hunt-Broersma could feel the

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