Category: Athletics

As he braved the hills and headwinds at the Boston Marathon, Dmytro Molchanov couldn’t stop thinking about family and friends back in his native Ukraine. “When it got very difficult, I tried not to give up and tried to push, fight with myself in the same way that the

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Evans Chebet of Kenya won the Boston Marathon men’s title in an unofficial time of two hours, six minutes, and 51 seconds. Chebet edged out compatriots Lawrence Cherono, the 2019 Boston winner, and 2021 champion Benson Kipruto. Runner-up Cherono was 30 seconds behind

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Allyson Felix, who closed the Tokyo Games last year as the most decorated American athlete in history, announced that she will retire when the 2022 season ends. “This season is not about the time on the clock, it’s simply about happiness,” Felix said in an

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The Slovenian Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) is the leader of the Tour of the Basque Country, after winning the first stage, an individual time trial with start and finish in Hondarribia. Roglic, current champion of the Basque round, covered the 7.5 km of the stage in 9 minutes

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Former German cyclist Tony Martin, retired in 2021 with 4 world time trial titles and 5 stage wins in the Tour de France, will auction the Olympic silver medal he won at London 2012 to help victims of the Ukraine war. Tony Martin (Cottbus, 36 years old), has indicated in the

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The Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, absolute queen of the triple jump, further enlarged her legend by obtaining her third indoor world title this Sunday in Belgrade with a new record for the discipline (15.74). With the title almost in her pocket as she was the only athlete

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John Landy, a former world record holder in the 1,500 meters and the mile, has died at the age of 91, the International Athletics Federation (World Athletics) announced on Saturday. Landy was the second athlete, after his great British rival Roger Bannister, to have run the

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Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been suspended for ten years for use of prohibited substances and for not cooperating in the investigation carried out by anti-doping authorities, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Friday. Okagbare, 33, who was one of the

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The young Norwegian athlete Jakob Ingebrigsten, 21 years old and current Olympic champion of the 1500 m, broke the indoor world record for this distance with a time of 3:30.60, this Thursday at the meeting in Liévin (northern France). Another Olympic champion half a year ago

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As in 2018, the Kenyan Sandrafelis Chebet Tuei and the Ethiopian Belay Bezabh were crowned this Friday in the traditional San Silvestre de Sao Paulo race, which ended with five Brazilians on the male and female podium. Chebet Tuei, 23 years old and a great favorite in the

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