EVENT NEWS
Want to stay up to date on the latest press releases and news about running, cycling and triathlon races and events? Scroll below to view all endurance sports event news.
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September 19, 2022
Their Sport Is on the Verge of Extinction. These Runners Won’t Give It Up.
Last year, the ultramarathon governing body dumped many multiday races from their catalog. So a group of fringe runners created their own championship, and just kept running. NY Times (Paywall)
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September 14, 2022
London Marathon follows Boston in adding non-binary category
Five of the six largest marathons in the world will soon allow runners to compete without registering as men or women. The London Marathon changed its policy on Wednesday. Inside The Games
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September 12, 2022
Boston Marathon includes nonbinary qualifying times as it opens registration
Boston, one of the most competitive races in the world, is adding new rules for runners within its newly created nonbinary division, which could be a significant step toward more local races creating thorough policies. The new times allow nonbinary runners to orient their training around the times needed to...
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September 6, 2022
73-year-old cyclist caught for motor doping in France
A 73-year-old cyclist has admitted to motor doping at the 12th edition of the hill climb time trial event, the Col du Benas, in France. It didn’t take long for the organizers to realize something was up when they noticed the rider had finished in 16th up the tough ascent,...
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September 1, 2022
Inside the Secret World of Triathlon Referees
Triathlon referees, or “course marshals” as they’re formally titled, are present during every leg of the race for high-profile races (think: races with pros or world championship-level races), but most age-groupers are only aware of them during the bike portion. Course marshals are most noticeable during the bike leg as...
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August 29, 2022
Mountain biker Haley Batten reaches World Championship podium twice in Les Gets
Haley Batten was aiming for a world championship podium finish this week in Les Gets, France. She captured two. Four days after helping the U.S. to a third-place finish in the cross-country team relay at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Batten finished third Sunday in the elite women’s cross-country...
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August 29, 2022
American ultrarunner completes barefoot trek of California’s John Muir Trail
New York-based ultrarunner Kenneth Posner completed a 22-day trek along California’s 210-mile (337K) John Muir Trail on Saturday. While Posner didn’t run the route, he is an avid trail runner and ultrarunner, and he almost exclusively runs barefoot. He didn’t take to the JMT to break any official records, but rather for...
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August 28, 2022
UTMB: Canadian Marianne Hogan runs to heroic 2nd-place finish
Katie Schide, the American who lives and trains in France, led UTMB aggressively from the start, took the win Saturday in Chamonix in 23 hours, 15 minutes, 12 seconds. Montreal’s Marianne Hogan maintained a beautifully tenacious performance, finishing in 24 hours, 31 minutes, 22 seconds. CRM
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August 16, 2022
Focusing on diversity and inclusion, gravel bike racing welcomes all to this sport
Gravel racing, known to embrace all, regardless of race, gender, weight or age, is steadily becoming the most welcoming sport. npr
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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!
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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...
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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