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The first day of the 2025-26 college basketball season will see The Field of 68 expand its footprint in the sport. And if all goes according to plan, it will also be a precursor to an even bigger showcase the following year. On Tuesday, the online outlet announced that it will be expanding its Opening Day Marathon event from the …

Lindsay Barad felt like she was in the best shape of her life. The 39-year-old New Yorker had just run her fourth 26.2-mile marathon, and was avoiding alcohol and even eating clean. She felt unstoppable. But just a month after the race in 2021, she was hit with a devastating diagnosis of stage four appendiceal cancer and told she had hundreds …

CNN  —  Women’s marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Thursday. Chepngetich smashed the previous marathon record by almost two minutes when she ran a time of 2:09:56 at the Chicago Marathon in October 2024, becoming the first woman in history to break the …

Marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit after testing positive for Hydrochlorothiazide in a test on March 14th. Hydrochlorothiazide can be used to mask the presence of banned drugs. The minimum reporting concentration is 20 ng/mL. The AIU notes she had an estimated concentration of 3800 ng/mL in urine. The positive test …

Marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for a doping violation. Hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ), a diuretic that is included on the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) banned list, was found in a sample of Chepngetich’s urine collected on March 14, five days after she finished second in the Lisbon Half Marathon with a …

Police in India have arrested a man in connection with the death of Fauja Singh, the world’s oldest marathon runner, in a hit-and-run case. According to the police, the accused, Amritpal Singh Dhillon was driving a speeding SUV when he struck the 114-year-old British-Indian runner. Singh sustained critical injuries and died shortly after being taken to hospital. The incident took …

Fauja Singh, the man believed to be the world’s oldest marathon runner, died Monday in Punjab, India, after being hit by a car. He was 114. Singh was reportedly involved in a hit-and-run Monday while crossing a road near his “native village near Jalandhar,” per the Associated Press. He sustained severe head trauma and was taken to a local hospital, …

The runner Fauja Singh, believed to be the oldest person to complete a marathon, has died in a road accident in India aged 114. The athlete, who lived in Ilford in east London, was hit by a car and suffered fatal injuries while trying to cross a road in his birth village of Beas Pind, near Jalandhar in Punjab, on …

Saurabh Duggal BBC Punjabi Pardeep Sharma/BBC BBC Punjabi met Singh in June at his ancestral home in Beas Pind village in Punjab state Fauja Singh, a British-Indian man believed to be the world’s oldest marathon runner, has died after being hit by a car in India at the age of 114. Police say Singh was crossing a road in the …