(Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) The men’s and women’s race walking events continued at the Rio Olympics on Friday and so did the Internet’s snark about the sport. But it wasn’t always such ...

You've entered an Olympic domain, and we're here to teach you about a racing discipline that's both challenging and historic, having first appeared on the Games program more than a century ago. What ...

Race walking is an event contested in all levels of the sport of track & field, from youth athletics up to and including the Olympic Games. Race walking combines the endurance of the long distance ...

Try it: Lace up your sneakers and pick up the pace! While Olympic racewalking involves specific postures and techniques, speedwalking (walking fast, basically) is a simple, less rules-based ...

The course for the marathon and race walking at the Paris Olympics draws inspiration from the famed Women's March of 1789, when nearly 7,000 Parisian women marched through Paris Versailles to bring ...

Race walking has been around since the late 19th ... The sport officially made its Olympic debut in 1904 in St. Louis as a part of the All-Around Championship (now the decathlon), and as a ...

Tokyo Olympic race walking silver medalist Koki Ikeda lodged an appeal Friday to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over his ...

When Chen Meng achieved victory during the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, she faced an eerily quiet crowd, reminiscent of Wang Liping, an Olympic champion who found herself alone in celebration 24 years ...

Switching from distance running to race walking, Laskua became a 3 time Olympian ... Henry competed in the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games. Masters Race Walker of the Year Award Each year, one male ...