Joss Naylor, the English King of Racing Up Mountains, Dies at 88
A sheep farmer, he set records in so-called fell running — rugged off-trail competitions that can last days and present painful hazards, including an irate cow.
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Horses, guns and swords: How cumbersome equipment gets to the Olympics
Athletes are responsible for getting their stuff to the Paris Games. For some sports, that’s more complicated than for others.
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Bitter rivals. Beloved friends. Survivors.
After decades as rivals and friends, tennis greats Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova found themselves more intertwined than ever as they battled cancer.
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Olympic Swimming in the Seine? How Paris Is Remaking a River.
Organizers of the 2024 Summer Games promised a waterway clean enough for Olympic swimmers and then Parisians to swim in. The job was bigger than anyone knew.
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Are the Next Global Tennis Stars Among These Tweens?
The search for elite players is so competitive that IMG, the agency that once ruled tennis, is cultivating preteens to find the next prodigy, giving them access to representatives from the pro tours and Nike.
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Is the Dream of the Ski Bum Slowly Dying Off?
A new book investigates the perilous future of a life spent chasing snow
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Regular People Keep Challenging N.B.A. and W.N.B.A. Players - The New York Times
There’s confidence, and then there’s thinking you can beat one of the 500 (N.B.A.) or 150 (W.N.B.A.) best basketball players in the world.
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The College Athletes Who Are Allowed to Make Big Bucks: Cheerleaders - The New York Times
Because cheerleading is not governed by the N.C.A.A., its participants can sign lucrative endorsement deals that would lead to punishment for most college athletes, including soon-to-be N.F.L. and N.B.A. millionaires.
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The Man Who Surfs the World’s Biggest Waves Without a Board
Kalani Lattanzi is your favorite surfer’s favorite surfer
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How Casey Currie Became the First American to Win the Dakar Rally
Casey Currie is the first American to win the Dakar Rally, a race stretching more than 5,000 miles
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The Champion Who Picked a Date to Die
Knowing she had the legal right to die helped Marieke Vervoort live her life. It propelled her to medals at the Paralympics. But she could never get away from the pain.
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A Lineman Became a Doctor, but Dementia Made Him Retire. He’s Only 42.
T.J. Abraham’s career ended when his brain began to fail. His doctors blame football, and he is pushing for change.
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Driven to the end: Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin could do it all. Until it all became too much.
Kelly Catlin was a silver medalist and Stanford graduate student. At 23, she took her own life.
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An Oral History of Oakleys, the Most Badass Sunglasses of the 1990s
If you were a human being alive in the world during the 1990s and early 2000s, you either owned a pair of Oakley sunglasses, or...
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Stephen Curry Has a Popcorn Problem
As the N.B.A. playoffs begin, the Golden State Warriors superstar guard tells all about his favorite snack and how it fuels his sharpshooting
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A Swimmer Saved by What She Lost
Tormented by pain, Morgan Stickney made the agonizing decision to have her lower leg removed. The groundbreaking procedure may change the course of her life, and the future of amputations.
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The Goalie Is a Hired Gun, and He’s Yours for $50 a Game
In Toronto, a surplus of amateur hockey teams has led to a thriving marketplace for that most sought-after of necessities: someone willing to play goalie.
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The Woman Who Outruns the Men, 200 Miles at a Time
Courtney Dauwalter specializes in extremely long races. But her success in winning them has opened a debate about how men’s innate strength advantages apply to endurance sports.
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Why the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. Are So Far Apart on Social Justice Stances
The way teams and players are marketed and the balance of star power in each league begin to explain how the leagues got on different sides of this cultural divide.
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Velocity School: Where Pitchers Pay to Throw Harder
The average fastball was 89 m.p.h. in 2002. Now it’s nearly 93. A big fastball doesn’t guarantee a pitcher’s success, but without it, he may be ignored.
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ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field
Ed Cunningham, who called games for ESPN and ABC, said: “I just don’t think the game is safe for the brain. To me, it’s unacceptable.”
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111 N.F.L. Brains. All But One Had C.T.E.
A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head.
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Something Strange in Usain Bolt’s Stride
Bolt is the fastest sprinter ever in spite of — or because of? — an uneven stride that upends conventional wisdom.
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Climbing's Boy Wonder
Kai Lightner is a sweet, brainy 12th grader whose indoor climbing routes stretch the imagination.
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China’s Stone Age Skiers and History’s Harsh Lessons
Tucked beneath a shallow outcropping in the rolling lowlands of the Altai Mountains, four men glide along the shadow-pocked rock face, their faint silhouettes…
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Tony Hawk Reflects on 'The Search for Animal Chin,' the Greatest Skateboarding Video Ever
Tony Hawk and the other members of the Bones Brigade look back on the 30th anniversary of 'The Search for Animal Chin."
