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March 2, 2025
Harry Styles Ran the Tokyo Marathon—with Nearly Perfect Even Splits
On March 2, pop star and icon Harry Styles ran the 2025 Tokyo Marathon in 3:24:07, averaging 7:47-per-mile pace. The 31-year-old finished in 6,010th place out of more than 37,000 runners. Runner's World
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February 28, 2025
Assault Survivor Creates App To Keep Women Runners Safe
In an ideal world, women wouldn’t need an app to run safely or to protect them from verbal harassment or worse. But in reality, they do—and now there’s one designed just for that: Running Mate, a “RunShare” app that connects women with verified running and walking partners who have passed...
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February 27, 2025
What Are the Long-Term Financial Effects of Doping Marathoners?
The Boston Marathon is rewriting the results of the 2016 race after a top-10 runner is found guilty of doping—but for affected runners like Sarah Crouch, some losses can’t be repaid. On February 13, 2025, marathoner Sarah Crouch got an early valentine from the Boston Athletic Association: an email telling...
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February 27, 2025
Trump says he’ll add another 10% to Chinese tariff
President Donald Trump announced on social media that he will impose an additional 10% tariff on imports from China, on top of the 10% he announced earlier this year. For many bike products, that means an additional 45% in tariffs has been added since last June, when exclusions expired for...
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February 26, 2025
How Pro Triathletes Make Money: A Deep Dive Into Sponsorship
Can you make a living from endorsements in professional triathlon? Is sharp social media worth more than a podium performance? Will athletes peddle any product that pays? Should you have an agent? And are negotiations really just a game of bluff and counter bluff? Tim Heming speaks to athletes, agents,...
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February 26, 2025
Belgian Cycling Factory acquires Nukeproof from Frasers Group
Following a tumultuous period for the bike industry, there’s plenty of evidence that there’s still a way to go before things go back to “normal”, not least in terms of brands finding a new home and/or route to market. The latest of these is mountain bike brand Nukeproof, formerly distributed...
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February 25, 2025
Organizers Canceled the Hilton Head Marathon Just 2 Weeks Before the Race. They Never Had a Permit
Earlier this month, hundreds of runners who had planned on making two loops through the picturesque parks of Hilton Head Island in South Carolina—did not. They didn’t receive their finisher medals, and they weren’t offered much information either, about why the race they’d registered and spent months training for was...
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February 25, 2025
Al Trautwig, Long-Time Voice of IRONMAN Kona Broadcasts, Passes Away
Al Trautwig, known to most triathletes as the long-time narrator of IRONMAN’s NBC Kona broadcasts, has died. He was 68. Trautwig died Sunday at his home in New York due to complications from cancer. Slowswitch
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February 25, 2025
Porsche eBike building battery production facility in Croatia
Porsche eBike Performance GmbH announced it will build a battery production facility in Sveta Nedelja, Croatia, that will open next year. Aimed at strengthening collaboration between development and manufacturing, the production facility is another step in Porsche eBike's plan to develop its own e-bike drive system. BRAIN
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February 25, 2025
62-year-old Olympian breaks American record in first race in 25 years
Four-time Olympian Joetta Clark Diggs, mother of professional Adidas sprinter and world champion Talitha Diggs, made a remarkable comeback at the USATF Masters Indoor Championships in Gainesville, Fla., over the weekend, racing for the first time in a quarter of a century. The 62-year-old clocked 28.62s over 200m, smashing the American record...
