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'Prime Suspect' in Olympian's Murder Arrested
Update: The husband of a Kenyan long-distance runner who competed in the Tokyo Olympics and was found murdered this week has been arrested. The BBC reports that Emmanuel Rotich was detained in Mombasa...
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Michigan Teen Ran a Dazzling Race. Then He Shouted
Garrett Winter's Saturday occupied two ends of the spectrum: the highest high and the lowest low. The Michigan senior came in second in the 5K at the state finals with a time of 15:27.89, a full 22...
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Most Decorated US Runner Is Making This Her Last Season
Allyson Felix, who closed the Tokyo Games last year with more Olympic medals than any US track and field athlete in history, says she'll retire after the 2022 season. "This season isn't about the time...
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His Win Came as a Shock—Especially to the Announcer
Elite athletes often have their parents cheering them on in the audience at championship events, but for one UK runner at the World Athletics Championship in Eugene, Ore., his dad's appearance was...
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Ohio Runner's Ear Nearly Severed by Deer
An Ohio woman who was running a two-hour "Space Race" on Oct. 1 ended up having a frighteningly out-of-this-world experience. As Rebecca Heasley of Willowick explains, she initially thought she was hit...
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The Rain Poured Down on Her; Then the Praise Did, Too
For some of us, pouring rain makes it hard to get off the couch. It's understandable, then, why a Cambodian runner's determination to finish her race in a downpour, and while in last place and alone on...
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These US Cities Are a Runner's Paradise
Next Wednesday is Global Running Day, and some cities are more amenable than others if you're in training to be the next Jackie Joyner-Kersee or Usain Bolt—or even if you just like hitting the pavement...
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Runner's Last-Minute Goof Costs Her Thousands
Senbere Teferi's resume has some big-name races on it. The 28-year-old Ethiopian runner placed second in the 5000m at the 2015 World Athletics Championships and finished fifth and sixth, respectively,...
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Report: 11K Cheated in Mexico City Marathon
This year's Mexico City Marathon was a carnival of cheating, with more than a third of the 30,000 runners disqualified, according to Spanish sports newspaper Marca . According to Marca, tracking data...
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Boston Marathon Organizers Owe 2014 Winner a Lot of Cash
A doping scandal two years after the 2014 Boston Marathon left the women's winner, Rita Jeptoo, out of a medal, and the second-place contender, Ethiopian immigrant Buzunesh Deba, in the first-place...
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Hey, Can You Control Your Dogs on the Trail?
How people handle rambunctious dogs has been in the news lately , but Brian Metzler has decided to handle his beef with an opinion piece in Outside Magazine . He acknowledges that he adores dogs—"all...
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Meet the Olympics' Youngest Male Track Star Ever
"WE GOING TO THE OLYMPICS" read Quincy Wilson's excited Instagram post on Sunday, announcing the 16-year-old's successful bid to make it to the Summer Games in Paris as the youngest American male track...
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Transgender US Runner Is Headed to Paris Olympics
Transgender and nonbinary runner Nikki Hiltz not only qualified for the Paris Olympics by winning the women's 1500-meter race at the US Olympic Trials on Sunday, they did so in record time . Hiltz, who...
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Disney TikToker Collapses, Dies at Disneyland Race
"I really hope I get through the race tomorrow morning," Caleb Graves, a popular Disney travel TikToker, posted in a video Saturday, the day before the Halloween Half Marathon at Disneyland resort in...
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Runner Lost for a Month in Park Ate 'Nasty' Berries
A man lost in the wilderness of Washington state for a month was rescued at the end of August clinging to life. Now, Robert Schock is talking about his ordeal, noting to People : "Never did I dream...
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Another Athlete Disqualified From 'Dirtiest' Olympic Race
It's considered "one of the dirtiest [running races] in history," and it just got a little more so: The Guardian reports that a fifth finisher, out of a dozen total, in the 2012 London Olympics' 1500m...
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Runner's GPS Animation Stuns the Internet
An accountant by trade, Duncan McCabe puts his creative mind to work in other pursuits, like incredible stop-motion art using GPS, which has now taken the internet by storm. Over 10 months, McCabe...
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