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For the first time in its four-decade-long Olympic history since the 1984 Los Angeles Games, the women's marathon occurred on the last day of the athletics program on 11 August, with the men's race having taken place the day prior on 10 August.
Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient Greek Olympics. The modern program includes track and field events, road running events, and race walking events.
2024 Olympics Day 15 results: USA women's soccer, men's basketball and track and field win gold. ... B-boy Victor takes Olympic bronze in first — and maybe last — breaking competition.
After Noah Lyles narrowly took the gold medal in the men's 100-meter final earlier in the Olympics, United States' Masai Russell was able to win a gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles on Saturday ...
1.2 Athletics. 1.3 Badminton. 1.4 Baseball ... This Olympic Games results index is a list ... this event made its debut at the Olympics of 1900 and has appeared in ...
PARIS (Reuters) -American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone obliterated her own 400 metres hurdles world record with a time of 50.37 seconds to retain her Olympic title on Thursday. Anna Cockrell made it ...
PARIS (Reuters) -American Cole Hocker delivered one of the all-time Olympic shocks when he won the 1,500 metres gold with a stunning finish to blast past British world champion Josh Kerr as ...
But in Athletics (excluding relays) the maximum for a single country is three. In the beginning, before the Olympics became a global event, sweeps were more common amongst fewer competing countries and larger numbers of entries from a single country. After the 1908 Olympics, a sweep became an increasingly treasured status symbol of national ...