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Shaunae Miller Beats Allyson Felix In The 400m Final With A Last-Gasp Dive Across The Line
Allyson Felix lost the 400-meter final by just seven agonizing hundredths of a second, after Bahamanian runner Shaunae Miller dove right at the finish line to hold off Felix’s charge from behind. The 30-year-old Felix came into the final stretch well behind Miller, but managed to almost run her down...
If You're A Small, Rich Country, You Can Buy An Olympic Medal<em></em>
After Ruth Jebet won the 3000-meter steeplechase yesterday, she stood on the top step above fellow Kenya native Hyvin Jepkemoi, received her gold medal from another Kenyan, Paul Tergat, then turned to watch the Bahraini flag ascend to the top of the flagpole. The 19-year-old Jebet was born in Kenya,...
The Story Behind The Perfect Photo Of Olympic Pain
What does it feel like to have your lifelong dream dashed in an instant? How would you react?...
Kenyan Track Coach Reportedly Posed As Runner To Give A Fake Urine Sample To Doping Control
Earlier this week, Kenyan Athletics’ Michael Rotich was detained by Kenyan police on accusations that he was soliciting bribes from coaches in exchange for warning them about approaching doping tests. This afternoon, Kenya’s Citizen TV reported that track coach John Anzrah was caught posing as an at...
Michael Phelps Tied A 2,168-Year-Old Olympic Record
Another two golds last night for Michael Phelps, the most decorated American Olympian ever: That makes 21 gold medals in his career, 25 medals overall, and with his win in the 200m butterfly—a particularly personal win, given his loss in that event four years ago—Phelps now has 12 individual wins to...
Running Guy Takes Post To The Dick And Balls
Humans have evolved over million of years into rather sophisticated creatures. We can eat and digest all manner of foods, we have developed the ability to fly to other planets in metal tubes, and we have some of the best eyes for tracking moving objects in the animal kingdom. Sadly, that didn’t help...
Rochelle Kanuho Came To Distance Running The Hard Way
By any standard, it was warm in Eugene, Oregon on July 2, game-changingly so for the 24 women who shook their legs and jumped at the start of the Olympic Track Trials 10,000 meters. ...
Can Extreme Endurance Races Be Mainstreamed?
Runners competing in the second annual Ultra Fiord 100 trail run in Patagonia waded through a chest-deep glacial stream early on, then faced hours and miles of steep, technical climbs, harrowing descents, freezing temperatures, thigh-deep mud, leg-snapping boulder fields, blowing snow and fierce win...
Is This Ultramarathoner Faking His Record-Breaking Attempt?
Robert Young is a hero. He has an incredible, emotional backstory, and he’s trying to accomplish an unprecedented feat of athleticism. The 33-year-old Brit says he started running two years ago, and that an abusive childhood drove him to try and become one of the best endurance athletes in the world...
Sick Of Doping? Get Off The Internet, Get Off The Couch, And Run A Race
Yes, I get it, everyone’s doping and no one cares. About doping. But there’s a huge disconnect between what is happening at the top level of the sport and what is happening in my hometown, and I would guess, other people’s hometowns too. Which is running. Competition. Running races is fun and people...
Anti-Doping Agency Says Kenya Is In The Midst Of A Doping Crisis; No One Cares
The run-up to this summer’s Olympics in Rio have been a disaster, between the prevalence of the Zika virus, Brazil’s political upheaval, and deadly problems with Rio’s Olympic infrastructure. It doesn’t help matters that the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) is in the midst of a meltdown, with all man...
Is This A Dick Or What?
This evening, reader Grant was looking for running shoes on Zappos when he stumbled upon what appeared to be a dong on the sole of some Nikes. He sent us a tip, and he sparked a brief debate in the Deadspin newsroom. Friends, this appears to be a dick. Let’s assess....
High School Relay Team Uses High Jump Pole Instead Of Baton, Wins
The 4 x 100 meter race is about pure, raw speed, but it also takes a good deal of coordination to time your handoffs right. This is much easier if you have a dang high jump bar to hand off instead of a tiny, near-weightless baton....
How Did Lalita Babar Put Up The World-Leading Steeple Time?
Notice anything strange about Letsrun’s listing of the world-leading performances from last weekend?...
Why Eliud Kipchoge Is The World's Best Distance Runner
Sometimes I like technology, in this case because YouTube is going to be invaluable in explaining how Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge calmly sliced through Sunday’s London Marathon, covering Her Majesty’s 26.2 miles in 2:03:05, the second fastest (by eight tiny seconds) marathon ever run on a record-eligible...
12-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Runs Half-Marathon
Last night I “accidentally” forgot to go to the gym and ordered Domino’s instead....
White Sox Execute 9-3-2-6-2-5 Triple Play
Triple plays are generally credited to the defense, but as we’ve seen more often than not they’re created by piss-poor base running. So here’s an example of the Texas Rangers shitting up the basepaths as they manage to get themselves into a 9-3-2-6-2-5 triple play at the hands of the White Sox tonig...
What Was So Special About Dick Beardsley?
I couldn’t get worked up about Monday’s Boston Marathon. After all, any American who might have been on TV ran the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in February, and is skipping Boston. So I followed this three-step program:...
The Story Of Nepal's First Global Sports Star: It's Not Just Running
See the steam rising off Nepali mountain runner Mira Rai? Sweet effect, right? ...
WADA Discovers World Record Factory Ethiopia Does Almost No Drug Testing, Is Shocked
The World Anti-Doping Agency has turned it’s focus on Ethiopia, warning track and field officials there they need to test up to 200 athletes by November or face possible banishment by the International Association of Athletics Federations, the Associated Press reported....