Asgreen hails escape quartet as Tour de France sprinters miss a beat
Dane Kasper Asgreen won stage 18 of the Tour de France on Thursday as a long-range escape edged a fast-closing peloton to the line at Bourg-en-Bresse.…
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Dedicate primed to repeat in the Five Stars Shipping Juvenile Sprinters’ Million
Dedicate, who is in fine nick, may score an encore in the Five Stars Shipping Juvenile Sprinters’ Million (1,200m), the feature event of the races to be held here on Saturday (July 1). False rails (width about 7.5m from 1,600m to the…
Athletics: De Grasse, other sprinters decry US high schoolers being penalized for celebrating
Andre De Grasse has thrown his Olympic champion weight behind a call to stop the punishment of young track athletes in the United States for celebrating victories, with the Tokyo 200 metres winner saying kids should be allowed to have…
This transgender sprinter’s Olympic dream shattered
'We're being hounded' - French transgender sprinter decries Olympics ban
IMAGE: French sprinter Halba Diouf, 21, a transgender woman athlete trains in Aix-en-Provence, France. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
French sprinter Halba Diouf…
Tori Bowie: Footage of sprinter’s gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics resurfaces after her…
Footage of Tori Bowie's rapid anchor to seal gold at the Rio 2016 Olympics in the second fastest 4x100m relay of all time resurfaces following the sprinter's tragic death aged 32Bowie was part of the US team that overpowered…
Iron Age primed to deliver in Zavaray S. Poonawalla Sprinters’ Challenge
Trainer Imtiaz Sait’s ward Iron Age, who is in great heart as evidenced by his track performances, should win the Zavaray S. Poonawalla Sprinters’ Challenge, the main attraction of the opening day’s races of the two-day Indian Racing…
Golden Oaks primed to repeat success in Sprinters Trial Stakes
Golden Oaks, who maintains form, may score an encore in the Sprinters Trial Stakes (1,200m), the chief event of the races to be held here on Friday (Feb. 10). False rails (width about 7.5m from 1,600m to the winning post) will be in…
PT Usha elected president of Indian Olympic Association, know all about legendary sprinter’s…
Legendary Indian athlete PT Usha was on Monday elected as the president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). Having won multiple medals for India on the world stage, Usha will certainly lead the IOA well and work for the welfare of…
Legs of sprinters: Highly muscular, still maneuverable: A comparative analysis of leg morphology…
A comprehensive knowledge of human biomechanics is useful for training athletes more effectively. From a biomechanical perspective, sprinting is challenging in comparison to walking and endurance running, making it an intriguing area of…
‘It was very much spur of the moment’ – Phillips on his innovative…
Glenn Phillips' innovative move to take up a sprinter's start position at the non-strikers' end was not pre-planned although he did suggest that it would help him avoid the risk of being run-out backing up which he said was an entirely…