The other events, like throwing and jumping, occur on the infield or another location near the track. These are the "field" events. From the track to the field, read on for an overview of each event below. The sprints: 60 metres (indoor only), 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres and...
In the dusty hills of Hashtgerd, some 40 miles west of Tehran, a rider on a souped-up bike comes roaring along a rough-and-ready race track, braving steep jumps and dangerous turns. With a bright orange and black biker suit and helmet, the motorcyclist looks just like any other, until...
The players that represent it (and the corps of cadets) need to look like they belong, whether on the field, court, track, road, mat, course, range, or diamond. Also, while a lot of the issues mentioned in the article are hard problems to solve, this isn’t one of them. Just ...
Only two men have claimed four athletics golds at a single Olympics, Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis, but their hauls included wins in the long jump, not on the track. The sprinter coming closest to that feat was American Florence Griffith Joyner at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where she won the ...
I put together an unruly spreadsheet to track FCS attendance over the past decade. Here it is: Historical FCS attendance: 2012-19, 2021-22 The compiled statistics are from the NCAA. I had to make some corrections and adjustments, both for formatting reasons and because there were a few inac...
A quick dog, or even an athletic29 man on foot, may keep pace with a boar on the upward track; but when going headlong downhill the pig leaves everything behind. The ivory tusks of an old boar will protrude30 three or four inches from his jaw31, and woe32 to the dog or horse ...
The other events, like throwing and jumping, occur on the infield or another location near the track. These are the "field" events. From the track to the field, read on for an overview of each event below. The sprints: 60 metres (indoor only), 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres and...