This is Deji Ogeyingbo’s feature on Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola, the winner of the 2024 Men’s Olympic Marathon on August 10, 2024. Tamirat Tola won his first marathon finish in 2017…
This is Olivia MIller’s piece on the incomparable Faith Kipyegon, who just became the first woman (no men have done it) to win 3 Olympic gold medals at 1,500 meters.…
This is the fifth week of our summer cross-country mileage program, which gets you into shape a little more each day. This is for August 8, 2024, Day 4 of…
We did this article last spring. In his third Olympic marathon (his fifth Olympic team, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020, 20224), Eliud Kipchoge walked around 28k for several minutes, then ran…
This is Stuart Weir’s feature, 12 years in the making, on the inimitable Katerina Johnson-Thompson, an amazingly iconic athlete. KJT is an article 12 years in the making As far…
ROOKS RUNS INSPIRED STEEPLE, BEATS THE LONG ODDS, BUT ASHENFELTER STILL ALONE By ELLIOTT DENMAN Horace Ashenfelter was surely looking down in approval. The only American runner ever to win…
PARIS 2024 DAY 9 QUOTE OF THE DAY “I’m so happy. To do the 5000m and 10,000m is not something easy. But just focus, and know that you can achieve.…
Back in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, German shoe cobbler Adi Dassler put together what was probably the one and only ultimate racing shoe in the world. He did it for…
Letsile Tebogo runs himself into history for Botswana with Gold in the 200m Maybe this is just the beginning. Every story has one. For Letsile Tebogo, it all started…
PARIS 2024 DAY 7 QUOTE OF THE DAY “It’s an extraordinary night. It’s everything I wanted, but for it to happen, it’s an excellent feeling. In practice, leading up to…