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Raygun retires from competitive breaking after Olympic backlash

Raygun retires from competitive breaking after Olympic backlash

Australian breaker Rachael “Raygun” Gunn, who rose to viral fame for her bewildering performance at the Paris Olympics, plans to retire from competition, she told a Sydney radio station Wednesday. The 37-year-old became the subject of widespread ridicule after her unorthodox Olympic routine, which included a move in which she mimicked a kangaroo hopping that […]

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They ran an Olympic marathon 12 weeks ago. Now they’re back at it in New York

They ran an Olympic marathon 12 weeks ago. Now they’re back at it in New York

For more than a week they felt pretty miserable, as though they might never be able to run like they once did. For some, it lasted longer than three weeks. That made for one of the stranger buildups to this weekend’s New York City Marathon, a wicked balancing act between recovery and training, between rest

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Mikaela Shiffrin is back and hunting for the next milestone as a new season begins

Mikaela Shiffrin is back and hunting for the next milestone as a new season begins

For Mikaela Shiffrin, the goalposts keep moving. All that chatter about her setting the record for the most World Cup wins and becoming the greatest skier ever is so 2023. Now, with Shiffrin getting back to racing as the alpine season begins this weekend in Soelden, Austria, the talk has shifted to when she will

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Ruth Chepngetich shatters women’s world record at Chicago Marathon

Ruth Chepngetich shatters women’s world record at Chicago Marathon

Kenyan distance runner Ruth Chepngetich completed the Chicago Marathon in 2:09:56 on Sunday, smashing the women’s full marathon world record. Chepngetich became the first woman to ever run under 2:10 at the full marathon distance. WORLD RECORD ‼️ 🇰🇪’s Ruth Chepngetich destroys the marathon world record in Chicago with an incredible 2:09:57 😮‍💨 That’s almost

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How ‘shoe doping’ changed marathon times forever – in ways we still don’t fully understand

How ‘shoe doping’ changed marathon times forever – in ways we still don’t fully understand

Five years ago today, in a park in Vienna, Eliud Kipchoge ran the most significant marathon ever. The clock stopped at 1:59:40. Kipchoge was already a legend. He had won 10 consecutive marathons between 2014 and 2019, including Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. This, though, was something else. A sub-two-hour marathon was

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Kyrie Irving unplugged: Mavs guard talks ‘accountability,’ Dallas’ mission, Olympics and more

Kyrie Irving unplugged: Mavs guard talks ‘accountability,’ Dallas’ mission, Olympics and more

LAS VEGAS — Kyrie Irving is beaming. Inside this Mendenhall Center gym he knows so well, having spent all those years with Team USA here for tryouts and training camps that helped elevate his game and sharpen his mind, his focus during this Dallas Mavericks training camp is on the present and the positivity that

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Can Zion Williamson, Ja Morant reach their ‘potential’ after years of starts and stops?

Can Zion Williamson, Ja Morant reach their ‘potential’ after years of starts and stops?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Zion Williamson’s and Ja Morant’s respective NBA teams opened training camp last week in the capital of country music; Williamson’s New Orleans Pelicans just steps from Music Row on the campus of Belmont University, and Morant’s Memphis Grizzlies at a posh, private high school about 15 miles southwest of downtown. Williamson and

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Celtics’ Jayson Tatum says Joe Mazzulla was ‘probably the happiest person’ with Olympic benching

Celtics’ Jayson Tatum says Joe Mazzulla was ‘probably the happiest person’ with Olympic benching

BOSTON — Missing out on the Finals MVP award and getting benched in the Olympics must have been challenging for Jayson Tatum to handle. Still, he said Tuesday morning, Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla loved to see the All-NBA forward gifted potential sources of motivation. “Joe was probably the happiest person in the world that

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Simone Biles says ‘not a big deal’ after video shows scoring inquiry snafu might have cost her gold

Simone Biles says ‘not a big deal’ after video shows scoring inquiry snafu might have cost her gold

Simone Biles is not worried about potentially missing out on an additional gold medal over another gymnastics scoring inquiry snafu in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics. Video from a camera crew following Biles at the Paris Games for the Netflix documentary series “Simone Biles: Rising” was given to Jordan Chiles, whose lawyers submitted

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