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May 4, 2023
2024 TCS London Marathon receives more than half a million applicants
The 2024 TCS London Marathon has set a world record by receiving the most applications ever to be submitted to a marathon. Marathon organizers say 578,374 hopefuls from the United Kingdom and across the globe entered the ballot for the 2024 TCS London Marathon, marking the first time the number...
May 3, 2023
F1’s Alfa Romeo Team KICK partners with FNLD GRVL for inaugural gravel race
Alfa Romeo Racing F1 driver Valtteri Bottas told VeloNews 202 that after riding SBT GRVL in 2021, he might like to add a new job description to his job profile: gravel race promoter. After announcing the launch of FNLD GRVL a year ago, Bottas is now truly merging his car racing...
May 3, 2023
Best Buy Sells Sub-$1,000 ‘Razor’ E-Bike
Most readers will know the Razor brand for its scooters, which became a childhood favorite in the early 2000s. The company still makes plenty of scooters but has since expanded its product line (like everybody else) to hop on the e-bike bandwagon. Now, Razor has announced a new e-bike aimed...
May 3, 2023
Shimano reports 16.8% fall in bike-related sales for Q1 of 2023
Shimano has released its financial results from Q1 of 2023, showing a 16.8% fall in sales in its bike division. The company also reported it was down 31.8% in operating income in the same sector. In its bike segment, net sales were 98,298 million yen – around £580 million –...
May 3, 2023
Brooks Running Continues Growth in Q1 With Record Sales in EMEA Region
Brooks Running is continuing its growth in the first quarter, after a record 2022. In the first quarter of 2023, the Seattle-based performance running brand reported 20 percent year-over-year global revenue growth, including a record 32 percent increase in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. FN
May 1, 2023
Rad Power Bikes has a 4th round of layoffs
Rad Power Bikes has been one of the fastest-growing e-bike brands in the U.S. In October 2021, after it announced the latest $154 million financing round that brought the total of investments to $329 million since its inception, the company claimed it was the world's best-funded e-bike brand in the...
April 30, 2023
Fancy Ultramarathons Vex Traditionalists With $11,000 Entry Fees and Private Butlers
Long-distance races roll out luxury amenities to tempt runners, confounding traditionalists. Danielle Zhao was clawing at rocks and crying as she scrambled up a hillside in the Scottish highlands, battling against her fear of heights to complete her first-ever ultramarathon. One thought kept her going. WSJ (paywall)
April 27, 2023
No Shortage of Imposters at The Boston Marathon
Every year after The Boston Marathon, some runners take to social media to report on some form of bib stealing. In the days following the marathon, runners flock to Marathonfoto.com to look at their photos, only some runners find photos of another runner with their bib #. It is unknown...
April 27, 2023
Is 3D Printing the Future of Triathlon Gear?
Until recently, pretty much everyone outside of the world’s top triathletes found themselves bound by mass-produced items including goggles, bikes, shoes, and accessories that were more of a one-size-fits-all situation than a truly dialed fit. This meant that athletes had to weed through a wide variety of different products until...
April 27, 2023
Steve Shanks: London Marathon runner dies on way home from race
A man has died shortly after completing the London Marathon in under three hours. Organisers of the event said Steve Shanks, 45, from Bingham, Nottinghamshire, died suddenly while travelling home on Sunday. Tributes have been paid to the runner, whose cause of death has not yet been shared. BBC