Of all the sports at this year's Olympics, the running events will result in the most calories burned per kilogram of body weight per hour. ... Calorific cost of other Olympic sports.

Its debut with the modern Olympics in 1896 has been credited with sparking distance running culture in the Western Hemisphere, and 26.2 remains a bucket-list item for many.

Ancient Olympic sports included running, long jump, shot put, javelin, boxing, pankration (a combat sport, sort of the ancient equivalent of modern mixed martial arts) and equestrian events ...

Why is the Olympic running track purple? Viewers may be used to seeing Olympic running tracks in a rust-red hue, ... Alain Blondel, sports manager in charge of athletics for Paris 2024, ...

Technological advances have changed Olympic sports—including fencing, sprinting, distance running and pole vaulting. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz, Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images ...

A fast track and new developments in running shoe design have seen a number of records broken at the Tokyo Olympics, but a leading sports scientist has warned athletes that they could be entering ...

The Olympics are an opportunity for athletes in a sport such as running, which Americans mostly forget about in the years between the Games, to completely change their lives by performing on the ...

Only two-time Olympic 5000m medalist Paul Chelimo had a realistic chance to get into the Olympics on world ranking, but he had faded to 10th place with three laps left. Yet Fisher, second at the Tokyo ...

The sport of steeplechase is a distance race that combines running with obstacles, including barriers and water jumps. The standard race distance is 3,000 meters, run on a track with 28 fixed ...

The 2024 Summer Olympics are just a few weeks away with trials set for multiple sports. One of the more high-profile athletes looking to make their debut in the games is track and field athlete ...

Qatar is set to rival Saudi Arabia to be the first Middle Eastern country to host the Olympics after confirming it is in ...