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WHEN HE WAS a boy, Cole Hocker, the Olympic 1500 gold medalist, was fast. As in sprinter fast. His father… Read More

IN A RACE that produced an unexpected amount of drama and excitement, Morocco’s 28-year-old Soufiane El Bakkali successfully defended his… Read More

GOING FOR THE gold is a careworn though irresistible meme wafting so ever-present in the atmosphere around an Olympic Games… Read More

NORWEGIAN SUPERSTAR Jakob Ingebrigtsen bounced back from the gut punch of being run out of the 1500 medals 4 days… Read More

IN A THRILLING RACE that may be remembered as the most competitive 10,000 ever, Joshua Cheptegei seized the gold as… Read More

THE ADVICE WAS SIMPLE. Grant Holloway said his coach told him before the high hurdle final “just to trust my… Read More

THEY DID IT. In securing gold and silver in the Paris 110H final, Grant Holloway and Daniel Roberts, erstwhile college… Read More

WITH A SINGULAR FOCUS, Rai Benjamin had this long-anticipated rematch front-and-center in his mind for the past 3 years. And… Read More

THE 10K BRONZE medalist 8 years ago in Rio, Tamirat Tola broke away from the pack at the base of… Read More

MESDAMES ET MESSIEURS, check out Paris tour books handily available at kiosks in every arrondissement of the French capital, and… Read More

TO PARAPHRASE TOLSTOY, every unhappy relay is unhappy in its own way. This Olympics, we have two distinct threads in… Read More

ONLY ONCE BEFORE has an Olympic men’s 4×4 been as close as this down-to-the wire battle that saw the United… Read More

IN TOKYO THREE years ago, Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim and Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi decided to shake hands and famously shared the… Read More

COMPETING IN FRONT OF the biggest crowd of his life — with the 75,000 capacity of the Stade de France… Read More

WITH A SECOND-ROUND effort of 27-10 (8.48), Miltiádis Tentóglou added to his burgeoning collection of medals by defending his Olympic… Read More

LEADING AN UNOFFICIAL Cuban medal sweep, Jordan Alejandro Díaz took gold with his opening round effort. That backed up his… Read More

THE MEN’S SHOT had seen no fewer than four back-to-back OG winners prior to Paris but Ryan Crouser put himself… Read More

TO BE FAIR, although it’s often tagged as “the island of sprinters,” Jamaica has been producing world-class heavy throwers for… Read More

FROM THE GET-GO, Canada’s Ethan Katzberg made it clear that everyone else was fighting for silver. He boomed his first… Read More

FEW NATIONS have a fiercer socio-political rivalry than India and Pakistan, creating an intense neighborly battle for spear supremacy here…. Read More