The plan had seemed so simple when it was hatched in their mom’s basement. But as the plane was landing in Nairobi,…
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At just 30 years old, Yuki Kawauchi is in a distance running category of his own. As of January 1, he has run the…
“My brother used to cover for me, and tell my mom I was visiting my grandma when I was out running,” says Diane…
Warmed up and stripped down, 15 blade-thin runners milled on the track, game-faced, gathering themselves. A few…
Carolyn Helker’s daughter, Hannah, is quite competitive. She gets that from her father, Eddy. When Hannah was young,…
Indoor American 800-meter record holder Ajee Wilson was stripped of that record for testing positive for zeranol, a…
Fifteen-year-old Cromwell High School freshman Andraya Yearwood won the girls’ 100-meter and 200-meter races at the…
Most Twin Cities high school cross country and track teams have Somali students on the roster. Some of these prep…
It was about 4 p.m. in Iten, Kenya when Edna Kiplagat got hold of me on Skype. The connection was poor, so she tried…
“One selfless London Marathon runner sacrificed his own race to help a physically exhausted fellow runner across…
Nike’s Breaking2 campaign was unsuccessful.
Canadian endurance runner Gary Robbins had been running—which is to say, sliding, clawing, and bushwhacking, with a…
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With 2,000 meters left in the weekend’s World Cross Country Championship, 20-year-old Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei was…
Wiping sweat and spit from his face with his t-shirt, 23-year-old Woody Kincaid seemed to be trying hard not to…
Whatever Nike is paying Kenyan star Eliud Kipchoge to crack the two-hour barrier in the marathon, it isn’t enough.
England’s The Sunday Times reports that they have seen a document prepared by the United States Anti-Doping Agency…
Kenya-born Yasemin Can and Meryem Akda, competing for Turkey, won gold and silver respectively at the 2016 European…
The U.S. Pond Hockey Championships were held this past weekend in Minneapolis. It’s supposed to be kind of kitsch…
It is almost impossible to believe that cycling, track and field, and swimming aren’t rife with doping. A large…
In a brilliant height-of-the-Christmas-sales-season marketing move, Nike announced via two breathless press…