Sport
Athletics, basketball and the people who train for them.
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Sport
A 16-week marathon plan for busy people
Most marathon plans assume you have twelve hours a week to give. This one assumes you have six, and that some weeks you will have four. The structure is simpl…
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Sport
Road trip: three nights, three arenas
The road trip is the least glamorous part of a professional season. Three games in four nights, each in a different city, with practice squeezed into hotel ba…
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Sport
The arena is ready. Now for the crowds.
Photographed empty, the bowl looks enormous. Eighteen thousand seats climb from the court to the rafters, and a new video cube hangs where the old scoreboard …
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Sport
The 100 m final, in three moments
The first moment is the start. Reaction times were within hundredths of a second across the field, and the two men who would fight for the line were level at …
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An 8.36 m leap and a first title
The runway was in shadow by the time the final round began, and the leader had already started to celebrate. Then the last jumper on the order took his mark, …
