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Track star Allyson Felix will be the most decorated U.S. athlete on the 613-member team with nine medals. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Allyson Felix Announces Candidacy for IOC Athletes’ Commission

Olympic champion Allyson Felix has announced her candidacy for election to the International Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission. Felix stepped away from athletics following the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo — her fifth Games — as the most decorated female athlete in Olympic track and field history with seven gold medals and 11 total medals. Felix […]

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United States midfielder Rose Lavelle, right, dribbles past Colombia midfielder Marcela Restrepo during a CONCACAF Gold Cup game in March in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

2024 Paris Olympics Will be Historic for Women’s Sports

One of the main talking points ahead of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games has been numerical gender parity on the field of play with equal representation of male and female athletes. Within the U.S. Olympic movement, that milestone has been the norm for multiple Games. The infrastructure around women’s sports has grown dramatically since the […]

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Simone Biles
Simone Biles is one of the top athletes that other Olympic athletes would like to see in action at the 2024 Games in Paris. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

What Olympic Events Do Olympians Want to Attend?

Some of the best athletes in the world in their respective sports will be in the spotlight during the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games — but what events or things would they like to see and do when in Paris? SportsTravel has canvassed opinions from dozens of athletes between the Team USA Media Summit […]

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Ryan Crouser of the United States poses after winning the gold medal in the shot put at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Crouser is a fan of World Athletics' plan to pay gold medalists in athletics at the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

World Athletics’ Cash for Paris Olympic Winners Debated Worldwide

Winning an Olympic gold medal gives an athlete a spot in history, the chance to forever be called a gold medalist and go down in the record books. But in the modern era of the Games, athletes have pointed out repeatedly how those things are intrinsic but do not pay the increasing bills that come […]

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LA28 Venues
Among the venues LA28 will utilize is swimming at SoFi Stadium, which garnered major social media buzz upon its announcement. Renderings via LA28

LA28 Swimming Set for SoFi Stadium; Softball Heading to Oklahoma City

The 2028 Olympic Summer Games will have multiple sports organized in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, while the long-whispered reports of swimming heading to SoFi Stadium were confirmed by LA28 organizers on Friday morning, meaning that athletics will be held immediately after the Opening Ceremony with swimming in the second half of the Games, bucking long-time tradition. […]

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Grand Slam Track

U.S. Olympic Champion Sprinter Michael Johnson Creates Grand Slam Track

Four-time Olympic Champion Michael Johnson has launched Grand Slam Track, a new global professional track competition with plans to launch in the spring of next year with four events around the world and a prize pool of $12.6 million, the announcement coming less than 40 days before the start of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games […]

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Fans watch during the World Athletics Championships on July 22, 2022, in Eugene, Oregon. The venue will host the upcoming U.S. Track & Field Olympic Trials. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

USA Track & Field Heads to Eugene, Hayward Field Once Again

It’s almost expected on some level that if a track and field event is big — really big — that it at least stops in, if not becomes a regular visitor, to Eugene, Oregon. There are the multiple NCAA Outdoor Championships within the past decade. The annual Prefontaine Classic is a must for any athletics […]

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World Athletics Ultimate Championship

World Athletics Announces Ultimate Championship for 2026

World Athletics will start a new competition featuring a $10 million prize pool for gold medalists called ‘Ultimate Championship’ with its inaugural competition in September 2026 in Budapest. The new event will feature world champions, Olympic champions, Wanda Diamond League winners and the year’s best performing athletes against each other. World Athletics said the event […]

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NJCAA Track and Field

Discover Monroe-West Monroe Welcomes NJCAA Track & Field Championships

The National Junior College Athletic Association will host its Division 1 National Track & Field Championships May 16–18 at Brown Stadium on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Monroe. The event, which is sponsored by the Louisiana Office of Tourism, has an estimated economic impact of $468,200, with more than 850 athletes, 125 […]

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The Drake Relays feature hundreds of events and 10,000 competitors. Photo courtesy of Drake Relays

Drake Relays, Penn Relays Feature Elite Track and Field Competition

The eyes of the track and field world will be laser focused on Paris this summer as the best athletes on the planet compete for Olympic gold. But several months before that, the Penn Relays in Philadelphia and the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, signal the blooming of track and field season around the […]

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