The longest Olympic road race in history had been a sleepy affair until a series of attacks near the end, when Evenepoel finally made his move. But it became high drama when he was passing in ...

Women never had been allowed to run farther than 1,500 meters in ... Until 1960, the longest Olympic track race for women was 200 meters. The 1,500 meters was added in 1972, yet it wasn’t ...

Nearly 2,000 people registered for the event – some as young as seven and as old as 82 – which functions as the longest running ... ride and a 3.1 mile run; the Olympic level includes a ...

adding a women’s marathon to the Olympics seemed nearly impossible. Before Benoit Samuelson’s race, men made up 78 percent of Olympians, and the Games’ longest running event for women was ...