Brutal heat. Dirt roads. Dust clouds and even rat poison. The 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon has fueled a deadly myth for ...

For more than a week they felt pretty miserable, as though they might never be able to run like they once did. For some, it lasted longer than three weeks. That made for one of the stranger buildups ...

Hosava Kretzmann, who is from the Hotevilla village on the Hopi Reservation, is the first Native American runner to qualify ...

Eliud Kipchoge has explained a back injury forced him to drop out of the Olympic marathon at Paris 2024 in the first ‘DNF’ of his marathon career. The Kenyan was dropped in the first half of the race, ...

Ethiopian Tamirat Tola will bid to become the first man to follow an Olympic title with a New York City Marathon win in the same year. Tola, the Paris Olympic gold medalist and defending New York City ...

After winning two gold medals in 2016 and 2021, Kenyan marathon great Eliud Kipchoge will return to the Olympics, this time ...

An Olympic marathon runner was allegedly set on fire by her disgruntled boyfriend following a domestic dispute that turned violent. According to TMZ Sports, on Sunday (Sept. 1), Rebecca Cheptegei, who ...

The original Olympic motto translates from Latin as “swifter, higher, stronger.” And those who live up to it are the ones who win gold medals and climb to the top step of the podium. But what about ...

While most of the sports at the Paris Olympics are already complete, the marathons are still to come—and it should close out the Games in a big way. The course for the Paris Games is extremely hilly, ...

Team GB runner Rose Harvey spoke of her "incredibly painful" injury at the games on Sunday, Aug. 11, in a new interview with the BBC Cameron Spencer/Getty Team GB's Rose Harvey was hit with every ...

An Olympic marathon runner, who competed for Uganda and was living in Kenya, was attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend during a disagreement on Sunday, police said. Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, ran the ...