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Runner Flips Off Competitor, Whole Cruel World
Posted by Reddit user velospeed from a 5K in Boston, this sequence beautifully captures what it's like to run a hard race and then be nipped at the line. It is the best....
Tom Tom Employs Sexist Ad To Showcase Running Watch Feature
Tom Tom is one of many GPS companies that make a wrist-mounted system that tracks your mileage, time, and pace while running or walking. But in a field of competitors, how does one stand out? Tom Tom has decided to be defined by its sexism....
Watch One Of The Best Swimmers In The U.S. Belly Flop Like A Pro
How do you celebrate two more national championships at the peak of your swimming prowess? Tyler Clary decided to do an award-winning belly flop fit for any neighborhood pool....
Celebrating Too Early, German Edition
Coming all the way from the German Junior Track Championships, we're provided with yet another example of why you don't celebrate until you break the tape. Even if you don't speak German, you can still understand the disbelief in the announcer's voice. The only tragedy here is that we're not privy ...
Olympian Invited To Bang Porn Star, But Not The One He Wanted
In a day ripe with Olympians committing to their romantic interests, Josh Mance, U.S. silver medalist and recent Florida State grad, is being welcomed with open legs by a porn star. It's maybe not the porn star he wanted. But still. A porn star. ...
Engagement Ring Among Alternate Uses For Olympic Medals
Vincent Gauthier-Manuel, a French Paralympic skier who won three medals at the 2014 Sochi Games, smelted his silver from the slalom to make an engagement ring for his girlfriend. (He also won gold in the giant slalom and two additional golds in 2010, but under the gold plating, they're silver, too, ...
Alaska Race Tests The Limits Of Attention Span, Human Spirit
Right now, a select group of people in Anchorage, Alaska, has been running/walking under artificial lighting for more than three days. They will continue to run for three more....
Kenyan Runner Gets Magic Legs
Marko Cheseto, a Kenyan distance runner recruited by the University of Alaska-Anchorage, made national news in November 2011 when he disappeared into the wilderness. Found two days later suffering from severe frostbite and hypothermia, both legs had to be amputated. Almost three years later, Cheseto...
China's Square Running Track: Fact Or Fiction?
A sports complex in China may or may not feature a track with right-angled lanes for running. Is it true? Possibly. The backstory contains just enough logic to make it believable....
Watch Four Minutes Of World-Class BMX Riders Crashing
The above video, taken from the BMX World Championships in Rotterdam over the weekend, just goes to show that the better you are at BMX, the more likely a fellow competitor is to ride over your head....
Small Child Runs With Kenyans, Falls Spectacularly
On Sunday at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, one young fan wanted to Experience The Kenyans. And he did it! He was flying with some of the best runners in the world! Then gravity took over, crushing his dreams and skinning his hands. Fuck you, gravity, you dream-crushing hand-skinner. ...
Twitter Trolls, Lance Armstrong, And A Coup At Ironman Lake Placid
A group of long-distance triathlon fans has raised funds for an unofficial finishing prize at Sunday's Ironman Lake Placid. They've done it, one of its leaders says, in protest of Ironman's shitty prize structure at some of its races. And now even Lance Armstrong is in on it....
Tour de France Leader Shoulder-Swipes Dumb Fan's Cell Phone
This year's Tour de France has been filled with no shortage of crashes, some of which have been caused by stupid fans taking stupid selfies. But so far Vincenzo Nibali, the tour leader, has managed to avoid them. Until today....
What's The Matter With CrossFit?
On May 12, CrossFit filed suit against the National Strength and Conditioning Association, claiming the NSCA's Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research published a study based on "'junk' science" to suggest that the fitness program "causes injuries at a high rate." The motive, the suit allege...
Nike Has Been Kicked Out Of Its Own Home
The IAAF World Junior Championships began on Monday in Eugene, Ore., the birthplace of Nike, Inc. If you've ever been to Eugene, you know that the only thing more conspicuous than green and gold is the superfluity of swooshes. But not this week....
Daughter-In-Law Of Nike Founder Arrested On Student Sex Charges
Melissa Bowerman, high school track coach and daughter-in-law of Nike founder Bill Bowerman, is again facing allegations of improper relations with a student. But this time the charges are serious and Bowerman is behind bars. ...
Is Jamaica In A Sprinting Recession?
Even before the advent of Usain Bolt, Jamaican men owned the sprinting world. Since 2006, in the 100 meters, they've had no less than six of the top 10 times of the year, peaking at nine of the top 10 when Bolt set his first world record in 2008. But in 2014, Jamaica's best athletes are missing, an...
Prayer Is The Only Thing That Can Save The Ryan Hall Documentary
The 41st Day, filmmaker Tim Jeffreys' documentary chronicling U.S. marathoner Ryan Hall's late, great career, updated its Kickstarter page today. More than two years after it exceeded its fundraising goal and collected more than $57,000, the film is not yet finished. And no, there is no end in sight...
Runner Struck In The Head By Lightning, Finishes Third
Over the weekend the Hardrock 100 ultramarathon wound its way through the mountains around Silverton, Colo. The men's winner set a course record. But more impressive or stupid or mind-boggling was that the third-place finisher, Adam Campbell of Canada, was struck by lightning. In the head. And then ...