(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 ...

“To then transition to a new event with only four years until the next Olympics, to pick up a completely different sport and compete on a world stage, that’s a very difficult ask. “You don ...

Race Walking Race Walking made its Olympic debut in the 1904 Summer games in St. Louis, and it lives on as one of the strangest, yet most captivating Olympic sports. According to USA Track & Field ...

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 ...

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 ...

The expansive Olympic track and field program consists of track events (such as the 100m sprints, 4x400m relay and 110m hurdles), field events (like the shot put, discus and pole vault) and road ...