August 8, 2022

Are gravel races too challenging to broadcast?

When Life Time launched its Grand Prix series in the spring, it not only formalized a calendar for off-road and gravel cyclists and gave them an enticing $250,000 prize purse to compete for, more importantly, Life Time gave fans a season cast of 60 hand-selected diverse competitors to follow and...

August 3, 2022

Tour De France Femmes Proves TV Hit As Viewing Figures Released

The eight stages captured, on average, a quarter of the French television audience, a total of 2.25 million viewers across the channels France 2 and France 3 and a total of 20 million people watching across the entire race. The peak was 5.1 million viewers, a 45.6% audience share, for...

August 3, 2022

World Triathlon Executive Board approves Transgender Policy

World Triathlon’s Executive Board has approved the Transgender Policy, following a period of consultation with the Medical Committee, Athletes Committee, Coaches Committee, Legal & Constitution Committee, Women’s Committee and the Equality, Diversion & Inclusion Commission, as well as multiple experts in the field and the transgender community. Triathlon.org

July 31, 2022

Commonwealth Games cycling is ABANDONED after a second horrifying crash that saw one rider fly over the barrier and into the crowd leaving three athletes HOSPITALISED and spectators treated at the scene

Cycling at the Commonwealth Games was struck by another horrifying crash on Sunday afternoon that saw England's Matt Walls catapulted over the barrier into the crowd, leaving athletes and spectators requiring urgent medical attention. In the second qualifying heat of the men's 15km scratch qualifying, there was a multi-rider crash...

July 23, 2022

As Europe’s heat wave melts roads, Tour de France races into an uncertain future

The Tour de France has always been a test of human endurance. The cyclists cover epic distances over the course of three weeks, speeding past fields of sunflowers, bouncing along cobblestone roads and climbing dizzyingly steep mountains with frightening corkscrew descents. Washington Post

July 23, 2022

How to Make More People Fall in Love with Track and Field

In the lead-up to this week’s World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, USA Track and Field president Max Siegel said that he hoped the event would be a catalyst to enhancing the sport’s domestic popularity. The goal, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times, is to make track the...

July 21, 2022

London Marathon changes policy for pregnant and postpartum participants

London Marathon Events has made immediate policy changes to make the event more inclusive. Participants who are pregnant or postpartum – including general entry participants and participants with a Good For Age or Championship place in the 2022 TCS London Marathon on Sunday 2 October – will now have the opportunity to...

July 21, 2022

Chris Froome out of Tour de France with COVID-19

The four-time Tour de France champion pulled out of cycling’s biggest race after testing positive for COVID-19. In a video message, he said he will take a few days off and refocus on competing at the Spanish Vuelta next month. yahoo!

July 20, 2022

Here’s What You Need to Know About the Inaugural Tour de France Femmes

On Sunday, for the first time in a very long time, there will be two pelotons in Paris racing the Tour de France. The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift begins on July 24 and runs for eight days across northeast France. The race features 144 women from 24 teams, and...

July 18, 2022

How Does COVID Impact a Tour de France Cyclist?

A fitness tracker from the exercise tracking company Whoop provides some insight into how the COVID virus affected Danish cyclist Magnus CortDanish rider of the American team EF Education-EasyPost. Outside

July 18, 2022

Aquatics set to have more medal events than any other sport at Paris 2024

A total of 1,392 competitors will take part in the aquatic events at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris in 49 medal events covering five disciplines, the International Swimming Federation (FINA) announced. insidethegames

July 18, 2022

Tour de France: UCI says it carried out over 700 tests for mechanical doping

The UCI has said that it has not detected any signs of mechanical doping at this year’s Tour de France, issuing a breakdown of the testing it has done across the 15 stages completed so far. The governing body released the statistics Monday on the third rest day of the...

July 12, 2022

Tour de France officials drag protesters off the road during chaotic stage 10

Senior officials from the Tour de France organisation were seen dragging climate crisis protesters into a ditch during the 10th stage of the race from Morzine to Megève . Despite being chained together around the neck, a small group of young protesters were dragged off the race route by tour...

July 8, 2022

Cycling Star Daniel Oss Fractures Neck In Brutal Crash At Tour de France

Cycling star Daniel Oss is out of the Tour de France ... after the Italian fractured his neck in an insane, high-speed crash with a fan during the race on Wednesday. Oss was able to cross the finish line but medical scans discovered he broke his neck ... leaving him out...

July 6, 2022

British Triathlon creates ‘open’ category for transgender athletes to compete at all levels

Triathlon has become the first sport in the UK to ban transgender athletes from racing in the female category at elite and grassroots level after deciding that “fairness of competition is paramount”. Under British Triathlon’s new policy, which kicks in on 1 January 2023, transgender athletes over the age of...

July 6, 2022

2022 London Marathon to stage the richest wheelchair race in history

This year, organizers are setting records before the race has even begun, announcing on Wednesday that the 2022 London Marathon will host the richest wheelchair races in history. The total prize pot across both races has increased by $57,800 from $141,700 in 2021 to $199,500 in 2022. CNN

June 29, 2022

Strava data on Le Tour pro riders’ training shows at least 15,000km covered since January

As an official ride partner for this year’s Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, Strava has published exclusive data. This reveals that pro cyclists have individually covered at least 15,000km in distance while training for the race since January – the equivalent of cycling from the...

June 26, 2022

4,400 road signs, 1,800 balance bikes, 100 percent carbon offset: The numbers behind the 2022 Tour de France

The recently published “Key figures for the 2022 Tour de France” factsheet sheds light on the operational, commercial, and increasingly sustainable beast that is the Grande Boucle. A small army of security and safety officials governs nearly 3,400km of race route. More than 4,000 bright yellow signs point the peloton...

June 24, 2022

The prize money of the Tour de France: Who earns what?

This year’s race sees a total money pot of €2,288,450 ($2.4m) being split between the various classification winners, stage victors, team prizes, intermediate sprints, and the rider who crosses the Tour de France’s highest peak first. Velo News

June 21, 2022

2020 Summer Olympics Cost Tokyo $10.5B

The cost of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has fluctuated since the city was named the Games’ host, but on Tuesday, the organizing committee released its final number: $10.5 billion, or 1.42 trillion Japanese yen. FOS

June 17, 2022

Tour de France: Covid-19 outbreak at Tour de Suisse raises concerns

A total of 29 riders did not start Friday's stage six in Switzerland, while 16 riders quit on Thursday following a Covid-19 outbreak; there are just two weeks to go to the opening stage of the Tour de France in Copenhagen. Sky Sports

June 16, 2022

UCI changes transgender participation rules

The UCI governing body is changing two key metrics. First, it is increasing the “transition period” to low testosterone from 12 to 24 months. Second, it lowered the maximum permitted plasma testosterone level from the current level of 5 nmol/L to 2.5 nmol/L. The UCI said on Thursday it began reconsideration of...

June 14, 2022

Catch up with the crazy runners competing in California’s The Speed Project

A race without sponsors, without rules, without even a website. Where no spectators are allowed and there’s no purse at the end – and yet it attracts some of the world’s best athletes, drawn by the promise of a unique trial of pace and perseverance – that is The Speed...

June 14, 2022

How to Build an Inclusive Running Group

More people are running than ever before—and as the sport grows, that means more and more runners are seeking their own communities within the running world. The percentage of athletes joining clubs on Strava grew by 37 percent in 2021, and more than 189,000 new Clubs were created on the...

June 14, 2022

Jake Fedorowski Hated Registering for Races Outside Their Identity. So They Decided to Speak Up

With their newfound identification as non-binary came the desire to ensure they were properly represented in all facets of their life, including a near and dear space they routinely participated in: the sport of running. Mens Health