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The runner to watch was in Lane 2, and she was hard to miss: Jolien Boumkwo of Belgium was a head taller and heavier than every other woman in the second heat...

A few hours before some of the world’s fastest runners would run a few hundred meters very quickly, they were invited to walk some 30 meters very slowly.The walk-in, organized by Noah Lyles,...

Amen Thompson and his twin brother, Ausar, sat side by side amid a swirl of tourists at Carmine’s restaurant in Times Square on Monday around 8 p.m. They had flown into New...

Mark Burnett can’t get Victor Wembanyama out of his head. Well, he could, but it would be like taking a knife to the “Mona Lisa.”Burnett, a San Antonio Spurs superfan, had Joe...

When Luke Kuechly retired from the N.F.L. in 2020 at 28, he had played eight stellar years as a linebacker for the Carolina Panthers and had sustained at least three documented concussions.He...

When the timer chimed to begin Round 3, Andy Cruz stalked Rostyslav Sabadash behind a stiff jab.Sabadash, taller and bulkier, edged backward. Cruz, a Cuban boxer who had won the lightweight gold...

“It became an instant informal hit,” he said. (A banger, if you will.) Jewish youth groups, inside and outside the United States, adopted it. By the 1940s, Jewish people in the diaspora...

Jakob Ingebrigtsen was ready to become a Pac-Man when he stepped on the track in early June.Like the video game character that gobbles dots inside a maze, Ingebrigtsen, a Norwegian middle-distance runner,...

Ms. Kang’s influence grew quickly in the midst of a wave of new investment, and interest in, the women’s game.In the summer of 2020, an eclectic group of owners including the actors Natalie...

A year before 48 of the best men’s national soccer teams come to North America for the World Cup, 32 of the best club teams will arrive in the United States for...