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How amputee Jacky Hunt-Broersma ran 104 marathons in 104 days
South African ultra runner Jacky Hunt-Broersma, who lost her lower left leg to cancer in 2001, ran 104 marathons in 104 days, finishing in late April to set a new world record. This is how she did it.
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Olympic Sports
U.K. officers to face review over sprinters' stop
Five officers from London's Metropolitan Police will face a gross misconduct hearing over the stop and search of two Black athletes.
SN Olympics
Final lap: Felix says 2022 season will be her last
Allyson Felix will retire having won seven Olympic gold medals, including one as part of the 4 by 400 relay at the Tokyo Games last year.
Olympic Sports
Ultrarunning legend Ryan Sandes wants to run around Lesotho
Ultrarunner Ryan Sandes has broken many records in his apparent quest to traverse the globe on foot, and is aiming to run around Lesotho inside 15 days.
Olympic Sports
Kipchoge short of beating own marathon record
Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge, the two-time Olympic marathon champion and world record holder, won the Tokyo Marathon in Japan with a time of 2 hours, 2 minutes and 40 seconds Sunday.
Summer Olympics
GB stripped of Olympic silver after Ujah positive
Team Great Britain has been stripped of its Olympic silver medal in the men's 4x100m relay in Tokyo last August after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld Chijindu Ujah's anti-doping violation on Friday.
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Disabled people in sport hit harder by pandemic
An opportunity was missed during the COVID-19 pandemic to make participation in sport and activity more accessible for disabled people, several leading disability equality groups have told ESPN.
Olympic Sports
Runner sues ex-coach, Nike over alleged abuse
Distance runner Mary Cain, whose career fizzled after what she has called four miserable years at the Nike Oregon Project, has filed a $20 million lawsuit against her former coach, Alberto Salazar, and their employer, Nike.
Olympic Sports
Ujah's B-sample tests positive, case goes to CAS
Chijindu Ujah's B-sample has confirmed an Adverse Analytical Finding and his case will be referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Track and Field
Thompson-Hera wins third Diamond League title
Elaine Thompson-Herah finished her season with a victory in the women's 100 meters at the Diamond League finals on Thursday.
Olympic Sports
Ethiopia's Yehualaw smashes Half Marathon WR
Ethiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashed the half marathon world record on Sunday, finishing in one hour, three minutes, 43 seconds at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon.
Olympic Sports
Kipchoge: No progression without technology
Marathon world record holder and Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge said: "If we don't embrace technology then we are not moving... I know regulations will be there but technology should take centre stage."
Olympic Sports
Cape Town Marathon nominated for Major status in 2025
The Sanlam Cape Town Marathon is set to become one of the official Major races of the world, and the first in Africa, it was announced on Wednesday.
Olympic Sports
London Marathon scheduled for October 2022
The London Marathon will take place in early October in 2022 instead of its traditional date in April for the third straight year, organisers said on Tuesday.
Olympic Sports
Britain's Ujah 'devastated' by positive doping test
British sprinter CJ Ujah said he was "shocked and devastated" after a positive drugs test that could see his country stripped of their Olympic silver medal in the 4x100m relay.
Olympic Sports
Belarus athlete auctions medal amid crackdown
Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who was removed from the Tokyo Olympics by the Belarusian team after she criticised her coaches, is auctioning a medal from the 2019 European Games to support athletes who say they have been targeted by authorities.
Olympic Sports
'The USA stole our moment': Nigeria's relay team from Sydney wants its anthem played
Former Nigeria sprinter Enefiok Udo-Obong told ESPN that the 4x400m relay team that won silver in Sydney 21 years ago, which has since been upgraded to gold, had its moment of glory "stolen" by the USA.
Olympic Sports
KJT: 'To make it to the start line was a miracle'
Katarina Johnson-Thompson said: "To be on my way to putting a decent score together, is heartbreaking. I truly believed I was capable of winning a medal despite having up to half a year of missed training."
Olympic Sports
Johnson-Thompson out of heptathlon with injury
Great Britain's heptathlon medal hopeful Katarina Johnson-Thompson has withdrawn from the competition after suffering an injury to her right calf in her 200 metre heat.
Olympic Sports
Van Niekerk crashes out in 400m semifinal
Defending champion and world-record holder Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa crashed out of the men's 400 metres after finishing fifth in the semifinal on Monday.
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