Yang Jiayu of China celebrates winning after the women's 20km race walk of athletics at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, Aug. 1, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Ying) PARIS, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- World record holder Yang Jiayu claimed the first athletics gold for China at the Paris Ol...
Brian Daniel Pintado (2nd L) of Ecuador crosses the finish line during the men's 20km race walk of athletics at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, Aug. 1, 2024. (Xinhua/Lui Siu Wai) Gold medalist Brian Daniel Pintado (C) of Ecuador, silver medalist Caio Bonfim (L) of...
The roster for the women’s eight racing in Paris is stacked with a five-to-four ratio of Olympic veterans to newcomers, and is far more even than the boat that raced in Tokyo, where apart from the coxswain, Musnicki was the only athlete to have ever competed at an Olympics. Between ...
As with every Olympic Games, the road race is a marquee event to highlight the famous features and attractions of the host city. The men's race route snakes around the western reaches of Paris, heading out of the city centre through Paris Rive Gauche, hitting the first climb - the 1.9km...
China's Qieyang Shijie won the women's 20km race walk at the 35th Gran Premio Cantones de La Coruna, a World Athletics Race Walking Tour Gold event held in Spain on Saturday, clinching her third win of the season. Clocking 1:27:50, Qieyang enjoyed an overwhelming w...
Van der Poel has won titles in many disciplines and thought at one point about competing in the cross-country mountain bike event at the Olympics. But he faced what he called a “difficult puzzle to put together” with the route of the road race suiting his skills. “Just the road ra...
Ikeda was second in the 20-kilometer event at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and placed seventh at the Paris Olympics three months ago. The 26-year-old walker was notified of a charge based on suspect readings in his biological passport, the AIU said. The passport can indicate markers of dopin...
Former champions Ben Flanagan (2021) and Sam Chelanga (2013), Kenyan Olympian Edwin Kurgat, who placed seventh in the 5000 meters finals at the Paris Olympics, and Andrew Colley, the fourth place finisher here in 2022 with a time of 21:O7, are expected to lead the men’s elite field...
At the velodrome, Dutch star Harrie Lavreysen surged to the men’s keirin for his third gold of the Games, ending British dominance of the event they had won at every Olympics since 2008. New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews blasted to the women’s sprint title to add to her keiri...
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