Latest Sports Breaking News
June 4, 2024
Investigation: Lab Tests Confirm Spring Energy Misrepresents Carbs and Calories, 7 Other Brands Have Accurate Labels
Spring Energy’s Awesome Sauce gel was a product that seemed too good to be true. A staple in many ultrarunners’ nutrition plans, it promised to deliver high carbohydrates and calories in a small package of easy-to-digest applesauce-like gel. The 180-calorie gel offered nearly double that of its competition with 45 grams...
June 4, 2024
Boston Marathon qualifying standards to remain the same for 2025 and 2026
The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) announced that they will not raise the entry standards for the 2025 and 2026 Boston Marathons. According to the B.A.A., the qualifying standards across all age brackets will remain the same as they were for the 2024 Boston Marathon. However, achieving a qualifying standard does not...
June 3, 2024
Seine Still Fails Water Quality Tests Two Months Out From Olympic Games
With barely 50 days until the start of the Paris Olympics, questions persist about the viability of using the Seine for the open water and triathlon events. The latest water quality tests done by Surfrider Foundation Europe show levels of E. Coli and enterococci bacteria “higher than authorized levels set...
June 3, 2024
Strike That, Reverse It — Malibu Re-Opening Race RFP
In January of this year, the Council awarded the sole triathlon permit available in the city to the Zuma Foundation, headed by former race director Michael Epstein. This was over the objections of Malibu Triathlon IP holders supertri, who had acquired the event from Motiv Sports (who had bought it from Epstein) and...
May 30, 2024
Ultrarunning Growth in the U.S. Through a Geographic Lens
Ultrarunning and trail running have experienced explosive growth over the past several decades. In the United States alone, this proliferation has attracted new audiences and people from every corner of the country and beyond. This pattern is reflected globally as well. iRunFar
May 29, 2024
USA: E-bikes could become more expensive after June 14
In the USA, e-bikes could become significantly more expensive, as importers of Chinese-produced parts will face higher costs. An exclusion from tariffs imposed on imports from China will expire on June 14, meaning importers will pay an extra 25% duty on top of any existing tariffs. The change affects e-bikes,...
May 29, 2024
Miguel Ángel López handed four-year doping ban for “use and possession” of human growth hormone during 2022 Giro d’Italia
Tour de France stage winner and grand tour podium finisher Miguel Ángel López has been slapped with a four-year suspension by the UCI, after the world governing body’s Anti-Doping Tribunal ruled that the 30-year-old was guilty of possessing and using the human growth hormone menotropin during the 2022 Giro d’Italia,...
May 29, 2024
What drugs are ultrarunners using?
Recently, some of the most renowned ultras in the world, UTMB and Western States 100, have implemented new drug testing regimes, in a renewed committment to preserving integrity in ultrarunning. But what is the prevalence of drug usage among ultrarunners, and what, exactly, are these runners using? A study recently published in Medicine...
May 29, 2024
Dick’s net sales increase 6%, leading to improved full-year outlook
Dick's Sporting Goods reported net sales increased 6.2% year-over-year and raised its full-year outlook. Net sales for the quarter ending May 4 were $3.02 billion, compared with $2.84 billion at the same time last year. Net income for the quarter was $275 million, down 10% year-over-year from $305 million. Earnings...
May 28, 2024
Merida bikes sales drop by 29.8% as industry slump rumbles on
Merida bikes are the latest firm to report a drop in sales in the current year as the effects of the global pandemic period continue to reverberate throughout the bike industry. The brand - which provides bikes for leading WorldTour team Bahrain Victorious - has been forced to stomach a...