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Race walking remains a part of the Olympics to this day. The men's and women's race walkers events officially kicked off on Aug. 1, and the Paris Games will be introducing a new race walk mixed ...

Have you ever found yourself on a walk, craving a more intense workout but dreading the idea of an all-out run? Enter race walking: a sport that “combines the endurance of the long distance ...

Introduced at the 1908 Olympic Games in London, race walking was initially exclusive to men. It wasn’t until the 1992 Barcelona Olympics that the first women’s race walking event took place ...

Not in last week’s individual 20-kilometer, and not in the brand-new race-walk event Wednesday: a mixed relay, with 25 teams of one man and one woman, each walking two legs of a marathon (42.195 ...

PARIS, Aug 1 (Reuters) - China's Yang Jiayu claimed gold in the women's 20km race walk at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, pulling away from the field after the 5km mark and barely looking back en ...

“The name of the sport itself defines the objective where participants swiftly walk their way to the finish line,” Olympics.com writes of the sport. Competitors race during the Women’s 20km ...

Yang Jiayu (C) of China competes during the women's 20km race walk of athletics at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, Aug. 1, 2024. [Xinhua/Li Gang] PARIS, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) — World record ...

PARIS – The official start of the Olympic track and field competition began Thursday with the men’s and women’s 20km race walk. Stade de France is the home for track and field during the ...