Every Thursday is set aside for a long run — 18.6 miles or more.
Other days involve strength and conditioning, core workouts, plyometrics, and speed training, as well as plenty of ice baths and muscle massages for recovery.
Running a sub-2-hour marathon meant Kipchoge sprinted at a blistering 4:34-mile pace. That took extraordinary mental discipline and the ability to run through serious physical pain.
Tiger Woods has made more than $1.4 billion since turning pro in 1996. More than $122 million of that came from on-course winnings. He's No. 1 on the all-time money list, by far.
Woods won $4.6 million at the Tour Championship alone — $1.6 million for winning the tournament and $3 million for his second-place finish in the FedEx Cup — one of his biggest paydays ever in golf.
Kamila Valieva has made #Olympics history by landing two quadruple jumps. Valieva and the rest of Russia's “Quad Squad” all work with the same coach: Eteri Tutberidze.
But the coach’s training methods have been under a microscope for years. 👇
Between the team, pair, and three athletes individual events, Tutberidze could have a hand in as many as five Olympic medals in Beijing — an unthinkable achievement for most coaches.
But prominent Russian coaches have gone so far as to refer to Tutberidze's athletes as "disposable" or "perishable goods," and see her as trading on her athletes' health in exchange for medals for Russia.
On Nov. 2, Peng wrote on Chinese social media platform Weibo that she had a consensual relationship with Zhang Gaoli when she was younger but he later sexually assaulted her.
The post was deleted within an hour, and she has not been heard from since.
In the wake of her post, search terms for "tennis" were blocked on Weibo and information about Peng was scrubbed from China's internet, The Guardian reported.
Chinese websites and social media often remove content deemed unsavory to the government.
Olympic fencing was rocked by sexual misconduct allegations against épéeist Alen Hadžić last summer.
Top officials within USA Fencing resigned after a meeting in August, but insiders worry the organization’s approach to sexual misconduct won’t change. businessinsider.com/us-fencing-exe…
USA Fencing’s handling of the controversy –– Hadžić traveled to Tokyo as an alternate, despite an ongoing investigation into sexual assault claims against him — prompted outraged fencers to speak out, drawing parallels to USA Gymnastic’s #MeToo crisis.
Now, USA Fencing executive director Kris Ekeren, communications director Nicole Jomantas, and general counsel Jim Neale have resigned in the wake of what several fencing insiders described as a disastrous August meeting.
When elite gymnast @thorpeheath posted a video performing a leap typically seen in women's gymnastics, commenters suggested he submit it for valuation.
But the leaps aren't listed in the Code of Points for men's gymnastics. 👇