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Jul 29, 2021 Marathoners are the NASCAR racers of running, trying to keep their radiators from boiling over during 42 kilometers and more than two hours on the road. Sprinters don’t have the same worries about heat and humidity. They are dragsters, generating massive power and searing speed then pulling the parachute in seconds. The men’s and women’s Olympic marathons will be held in Sapporo, some 800 kilometers north of Tokyo, to escape the smothering blanket that is Tokyo’s average August weather: a high of 31 degrees Celsius, low of 25; humidity at 73%; a “feels-like” ...

linkedin As the Tokyo Olympics’ opening ceremony kicked off, Indian sports minister Anurag Thakur, and broadcaster Sony Pictures Networks (SPN), were being trolled on social media. This was thanks to the channel’s ‘split-screen’ which showed the Indian Olympians in Tokyo and Thakur side-by-side.   As it turns out, this was a trailer of what was to come; SPN’s ‘split-screen ads’ continue during the ongoing tournament.    When Chanu Saikhom Mirabai (Mirabai Chanu) won the country a Silver medal in weightlifting, the split screen returned –  right at the...

Unleashing ‘the Beast’: how Adam Peaty became invincible Peaty’s second Olympic gold medal cements his position as the most dominant sportsperson in Great Britain today – and perhaps ever 26 July 2021 • 3:20am There are three of us in the conversation. Myself. Adam Peaty. And The Beast. “Sometimes the beast has got to come out; sometimes it’s got to rest,” explains Peaty, casting his mind back to the day two years ago when he became the first swimmer to dip under 57 seconds for the 100m breaststroke. The great curiosity of that performance was not just that he went so far beyo...

Black Power al Black Lives Matter, de 1968 a 2021, medio siglo ha necesitado el Movimiento Olímpico para hacer conjugar sus Principios Fundamentales con un derecho clave de la sociedad en la que nació: la libertad de expresión. El Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI) ha implementado la norma 50.2 de la Carta Olímpica, que prohibía a los deportistas realizar manifestaciones de carácter político o social, principalmente, para permitirles expresar sus opiniones de forma verbal o gestual en determinados espacios, aunque el podio seguirá siendo una excepción. Lo hace tras recoger la exi...

Históricas hazañas en Juegos Olímpicos que se recordarán por siempre ¿Cuáles son las grandes hazañas deportivas en Juegos Olímpicos que más impresionar al mundo? REDACCIÓN Después de retrasarse un año, los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020 por fin podrán celebrarse, en donde el mundo deportivo se emociona por las historias, las glorias, las derrotas y los momentos inolvidables que dejará esta fiesta veraniega. ¿Cuáles son las grandes hazañas deportivas en Juegos Olímpicos que más impresionar al mundo? Te puede interesar Jesse Owens El atleta fue el décimo hijo de una fami...