Video of the Cambodian runner Bou Samnang’s rain-soaked performance in a 5,000-meter race resonated with fans who applauded her gritty determination.
Tag: Track and Field
A National Treasure on the Rise Is Hit With a Doping Allegation
A star Olympic runner from Australia was suspended over a positive drug test of a kind that critics have called alarmingly open to human error.
Mo Farah Documentary Puts Spotlight on U.K.’s Hard-line Policy
Experts hope the running star’s revelations will humanize migrants’ struggles, but they don’t expect policy changes in a country that is trying to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Italy’s Lamont Jacobs: a Surprise Hero After Olympics Gold
Lamont Marcell Jacobs, a mixed-race Italian athlete, was not well known heading into the Olympics but he emerged as the world’s top sprinter, with two gold medals.
Can the Olympics Take the Heat?
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Two Belarus Coaches Expelled From Tokyo Olympics
The International Olympic Committee said it had expelled the coaches who were involved in the attempt to force the runner home against her will.
Belarus Sprinter’s Defection Sheds Light on Dictator’s Control
Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, and authoritarian leaders before him, have used sports as a propaganda tool. But defections have had a long history of puncturing their aura of invincibility.
Belarus Sprinter’s Defection Sheds Light on a Dictator’s Levers of Control
Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, and authoritarian leaders before him, have used sports as a propaganda tool. But defections have had a long history of puncturing their aura of invincibility.
Kristina Timanovskaya, Belarus Sprinter, Becomes an Unlikely Dissident
An Instagram complaint against her coaches embroiled Kristina Timanovskaya in the precarious politics of her home country, and may force her into asylum
At the Olympics in Bombed-Out London, She Forever Changed Women’s Sports
The 1948 Summer Games, the first held after the war, were a celebration of improvisation, renewal and change, embodied in a Dutch track star named Fanny Blankers-Koen.