EVENT NEWS
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December 9, 2021
Into The Lion’s Den: From The Richest US Crit of The Year to PR Disaster
Olivia Ray posed with an enormous fake check on the Lion’s Den podium, $15,000 scrawled across its face. The Rally Cycling sprinter had just topped Legion’s Kendall Ryan and Amy Pieters of SD Worx to win Legion’s inaugural event, a high-speed, high-hype criterium in downtown Sacramento, California. The date in...
December 7, 2021
Lack of spectators at Tokyo 2020 set to save organisers more than $1 billion
The total cost of staging the Games, which were postponed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was ¥150 billion (£1 billion/$1.3 billion/1.2 billion) less than budgeted as the lack of fans meant labour costs and other expenditure was not as big as expected, Japanese agency Kyodo News reported. Cost reductions...
December 6, 2021
US confirms diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics over “genocide” in Xinjiang
United States Government officials will not be attending Beijing 2022 in response to China's record on human rights, as the White House finally confirmed that it will employ a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics. The move will mean that no senior US politicians will attend Beijing 2022, but athletes...
December 1, 2021
Hong Kong Marathon organisers delay 2022 race to November as city continues Covid-19 curbs
The 2022 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon has been pushed back from February to November, in a move aimed at giving local runners more time to train – and the race a better chance of attracting overseas competitors. Organisers had planned to hold next year’s event in February, but concerns over the...
November 30, 2021
China claims new COVID-19 variant will not force Beijing 2022 postponement
Omicron, the new strain of COVID-19, will not force the cancellation of next year's Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing, the Chinese Government claimed today. Japan, which hosted the re-arranged 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games earlier this year, today became the 19th country to confirm a case of...
November 27, 2021
Beijing Marathon suffers second straight cancellation due to COVID-19
Organisers have confirmed the cancellation of the Beijing Marathon for the second consecutive year due to COVID-19, highlighting the challenges faced by those in charge of the upcoming Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Beijing Marathon was officially postponed last month, due to an increase in COVID-19 cases domestically. Inside...
November 22, 2021
Six Times Triathlon Weirdly Got Mainstream Attention
Our little sport doesn’t always make the news, but when it does you can be sure it’ll be for something wacky. Triathlete
November 18, 2021
Not a Prank: The Cutoff for the 2022 Boston Marathon is 0 Minutes and 0 Seconds
On Thursday morning, the Boston Athletic Association announced that if you ran a qualifying time for your age group and gender and applied during the registration window, you’re in for April 18, 2022. Seriously: the Boston Marathon cutoff time is 0 minutes and 0 seconds. Women's Running
November 17, 2021
Should Road Races Separate the Pros from the Masses?
While the benefit to giving elite women their own race seems obvious, the question of giving male marathoners a separate start is more contentious. Earlier this month, for the first time in its 50-year history, the New York City Marathon had a separate start time for the men’s elite field,...
November 11, 2021
Shanghai Marathon postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19
China is battling a fresh Delta-driven outbreak that has spread across the country and sparked tough new measures to stamp out the virus before the Beijing Winter Olympics in February. Organizers of the Beijing and Wuhan marathons both announced last month that those races were also postponed due to the...