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 ...

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 ...

For instance, the longest distance run at the Summer Olympics is the 10,000 metres - half the distance of the 20km race walk. In terms of timing, the men's world record for the 10,000 metres is ...

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 ...