Olympic News

All news relating directly to the Olympic Games – Rio 2016

CONQUERING HANGOVER HILL   A Column by Daniel Wallis - Runner's Tribe in conjunction with SOS Rehydrate BIG NIGHT, BAD MORNING A hangover is not a disease, so there isn’t really a cure. However, there are a couple of methods with which you can mitigate the effects and help with the...
Tomorrow Josh Harris (@_JoshHarris) will take on the world’s best at the Flotrack Beer Mile World Championships. Having recently run a solo 4:56 personal best as part of a time-trial, Harris enters the competition with a ranking of 8th. Along with defending World Champ Corey Gallagher (@CoreyGallagher4) and superstar Lewis Kent...
2016 Season: Not Defined by Medals in Rio The 2016 season unofficially started with the Zatopek:10 (back in December, 2015), and since then we have witnessed so many magical moments from our stars of Australian athletics. Although many people would rate the Australian team's performance purely on the results from...
Zombie 5Ks: Run (If you Dare) This is the first column from our new US-based (New York) writer, Ryan Nelson. Ryan will be providing weekly race recaps, interest pieces and more from the world of US athletics. Being in the Halloween spirit, Ryan has chosen to explore the growing popularity...
Runners Tribe caught up with Matt Fox, past 800m runner who recently commenced working at the events management company who run one of the fastest growing marathon event series in the world, the Sundown Marathon series. Matt has been living in Singapore over the last year and 3 months...
Thanks to Athletics Australia Forty-five of Australia’s best para-athletes are set to realise their Paralympic dream as they prepare for competition in Rio over the next eleven days. Twenty athletes will making their Paralympic debut, with at least one representative from across seven states and territories. Entering his fifth and final Paralympic...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved PARIS (26-Aug) -- Ezekiel Kemboi finished third in the Olympic Games final of the steeplechase, but was disqualified after a protest by the French federation on behalf of fourth-place finisher, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad. Kemboi stepped on the white line between...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved LAUSANNE, SUI (24-Aug) -- It's a race that's positioned as the main event of tomorrow's Athletissima Lausanne IAAF Diamond League meet, the highly anticipated battle between two welterweights: newly crowned Olympic gold medalist Matthew Centrowitz and three-time world champion...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved FALMOUTH, MA, USA (21-Aug) -- Four thousand, eight hundred miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Stadium, American mile record holder Alan Webb sat watching a television set at his host family's house. Webb didn't bat an eye as...
                   

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