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☆ Tamirat Tola wins captivating Olympic marathon for Ethiopia
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Matthew Futterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Tola surged clear and never looked back (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)After letting the little-known Eyob Faniel of Italy lead for most of the first half of the race, Tola made his first move just before the halfway mark. Tola crossed the line an Olympic record time (Andrej Isakovic/AFP via Getty Images)Most remarkably, Tola didn’t even make the Ethiopian team originally. “I trained hard so I could win,” Tola said. Even his compatriot, Kenenisa Bekele, one of the most decorated Ethiopian distance runners but at 42 nearing the end of his career, was gushing after finishing 39th. “Not easy to win the Olympic Games,” he said, in perhaps the understatement of the past two weeks in Paris.

Persons: Tamirat Tola, Tola, Cameron Spencer, ”, Bikila, Bikele, Belgium’s Bashir Abdi, Kenya’s Benson Kipruto, Eliud, victoire appartient, Napoleon, Roland Garros, Andrej Isakovic, Tola didn’t, “, ” Tola, Connor Mantz, Akira Akasaki, ” Mantz, Clayton Young, Abdi, Kenenisa Bekele, ” Bekele, Denisa Geleta, Kipruto Organizations: “, East, Getty, Ethiopian, Boston Marathon, Olympic Locations: Ethiopia, Invalides, Paris, Versailles, Eugene , Ore, New York, Italy, Rome, Tokyo, Kenya, AFP, Japan

☆ Dress Codes: How high is too high? The evolution of the women’s running brief
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —When women first competed in Olympic track and field events in 1928, they wore loose t-shirts and wide shorts, sometimes cinched with a belt. Nike's design for the US women's team outfit, right, is seen in an image posted to X by @CitiusMag. The controversy follows a headline-making protest at the 2020 Tokyo Games, when the German women’s gymnastics team rejected bikini-cut unitards in favor of fuller coverage, in a statement against “sexualization in gymnastics,” the German Gymnastics Federation said at the time. Function and styleOn the Olympic track, there aren’t many regulations when it comes to what athletes can wear. But more fabric hasn’t caught on since then for women track athletes; instead, the reverse has trended.

Persons: Lauren Fleshman, ”, Tara Davis, Woodhall, Katie Moon, Sha’Carri Richardson, Judy Simpson, Jackie Joyner, David Cannon, “, Gadget, Abebe Bikila, hemlines, Dobriana Gheneva, ” Gheneva, That’s, Florence Griffith Joyner, Richardson, Vogue, Florence Griffith, Joyner, Tony Duffy, Sha'Carri Richardson, Griffith Joyner, Tim Clayton, Corbis, Griffith Joyner’s, Serena Williams, Cathy Freeman, Flo, Gheneva, baring Organizations: CNN, Nike, Games, US, @CitiusMag, Paris, USA, Field, USATF, Angeles Olympics, German Gymnastics Federation, World Athletics, Ethiopian, Gamma, Getty, Fashion Institute of Technology, Reebok, “, ” Locations: German, Keystone, France, New York

☆ NYC Marathon: 'Only God knows when we can meet,' says marathon runner Gotytom Gebreslase, cut off from her parents amid conflict in Ethiopia
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —It’s almost a year since marathon runner Gotytom Gebreslase last spoke to her parents over the phone, a detachment she feels most strongly during races. “My wish is to meet them soon – that would make me happy.”Gebreslase breaks the tape at the World Athletics Championships. Some reassurance over her parents’ safety arrived following Gebreslase’s victory at the world championships in July, when she came across a TV report featuring an interview with her mother. “The result I got in the world championships built my confidence,” she says. “When I started running, [my parents] didn’t discourage me, they were encouraging me – especially my mom,” says Gebreslase.

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