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Athletic Club Boise
Athletic Club Boise (AC Boise) is Idaho's first professional soccer club, debuting in USL League One in 2026 and joining the USL Championship (Division II) in 2027, with sold-out home games at Athletic Club Boise Stadium.
Athletic director
Athletic director (AD): senior administrator running a school's or college athletics program, reporting to the president; duties include budgets, fundraising, NCAA compliance, and post-2025 House settlement revenue sharing up to $20.5 million per Division I school.
Athletic heart syndrome
Athletic heart syndrome, or exercise-induced cardiac remodeling, is the physiological heart enlargement and electrical change from repetitive strenuous training, first described by Henschen in 1899, and distinguished from cardiomyopathy by reversibility with detraining.
Athletic Media Co
Athletic Media Co is a San Francisco digital sports media company founded in 2015, known for The Athletic, which it sold to The New York Times Company in 2022.
Athletics (baseball)
Athletics (baseball): the physical characteristics, in-game demands, training, and injuries of baseball players, documented by MLB's HITS database; pitchers suffer 39% of injuries and UCL tears dominate surgery.
Athletics abbreviations
Athletics abbreviations are the standard codes used in track and field results, such as DNS, DNF, DQ, Q/q, PB, SB, NR, and wind or altitude markers, defined by World Athletics' official Terms and Abbreviations list.
Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – men's marathon
The men's marathon at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, run 30 August 1904 over 24.85 miles in extreme heat with one water stop; Thomas Hicks won in 3:28:53 after Fred Lorz's car-riding disqualification and strychnine dosing.
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres
Men's 100m, Athens 2004 Olympics: Justin Gatlin (USA) won gold in 9.85, Francis Obikwelu (POR) silver 9.86 AR, Maurice Greene bronze 9.87; four finalists under 9.90, 82 runners from 64 nations.
Athletics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
Athletics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, Singapore YOG track and field at Bishan Stadium, 17–23 August 2010, 36 medal events for athletes aged 14–18; Luguelín Santos won the 400m in 47.11.
Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics: 47 track and field events, 3–12 August 2012, London Olympic Stadium and The Mall; 2,079 athletes; Super Saturday, three world records, and 69 later doping disqualifications.
Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres
Men's 100 metres, London 2012 Olympics (4–5 August 2012): Usain Bolt won in an Olympic record 9.63 s, second-fastest ever, beating Yohan Blake (9.75) and Justin Gatlin (9.79); Tyson Gay (9.80) was later disqualified.
Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres
Men's 200m at London 2012 Olympics, 7–9 August 2012: Usain Bolt won in 19.32, leading a Jamaican sweep with Yohan Blake (19.44) and Warren Weir (19.84), his second straight 100/200 double.
Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Athletics at the 2016 Rio Olympics: 47 track and field events, 12–21 August 2016 at the Estádio Olímpico; Bolt's triple-triple, van Niekerk's 43.03 world record, Russian team suspension.
Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres
Men's 100 m, Rio 2016 Olympics (14 August 2016, Estádio Olímpico): Usain Bolt won gold in 9.81, beating Justin Gatlin (9.89) and Andre De Grasse (9.91), becoming the first man with three consecutive Olympic 100 m titles.
Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: 48 track and field events, 1,900 athletes, held July-August 2021 in Tokyo and Sapporo; Warholm's 45.94 world record, Thompson-Herah's 10.61, US led with 26 medals.
Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres
Men's 100m at Tokyo 2020 Olympics, held 31 July–1 August 2021 at Japan National Stadium. Lamont Marcell Jacobs (ITA) won gold in a European record 9.80, ahead of Fred Kerley (9.84) and Andre De Grasse (9.89); first post-Bolt Olympic 100m.
Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin throw
Men's javelin throw at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (held 2021): Neeraj Chopra won India's first athletics gold with 87.58m; Czechs Vadlejch and Veselý took silver and bronze; favorite Johannes Vetter finished ninth.
Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification
Tokyo 2020 Olympic athletics qualification: 1,900 athletes chosen via entry standards plus World Athletics world rankings, COVID-suspended April-November 2020, 100 universality places, three-per-nation cap, tougher standards than Rio 2016.
Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres
Women's 100 m at Tokyo 2020 (held 31 July 2021): Elaine Thompson-Herah won in an Olympic record 10.61, leading a Jamaican sweep over Fraser-Pryce (10.74) and Jackson (10.76).
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris 2024 track and field at Stade de France, 1–11 August 2024. USA led with 34 medals, 14 gold; three world records; repechage round and Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay debuted.
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres
Men's 100m, Paris 2024 Olympics (4 August 2024, Stade de France). Noah Lyles won gold in 9.79 PB, edging Kishane Thompson by 0.005s on photo finish; Fred Kerley took bronze; all eight finalists ran sub-10 for the first time.
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres
Men's 1500m, Paris 2024 Olympics, also called the Olympic 1500m final: Cole Hocker won gold in an Olympic record 3:27.65, beating Josh Kerr (3:27.79) and Yared Nuguse (3:27.80); defending champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen finished fourth.
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres
Men's 200m at Paris 2024 Olympics, won 8 August 2024 by Botswana's Letsile Tebogo in an African record 19.46, ahead of Kenny Bednarek (19.62) and COVID-affected favorite Noah Lyles (19.70).
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
Men's 4 × 100 m relay, Paris 2024 Olympics: Canada (Brown, Blake, Rodney, De Grasse) won gold in 37.50; South Africa silver, Great Britain bronze; the United States was disqualified for an out-of-zone exchange and Jamaica missed the final.
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
Men's 4x400m relay, Paris 2024 Olympics, 9-10 August 2024, Stade de France. USA won gold in 2:54.43 (Olympic record), Botswana silver 2:54.53 (African record), Great Britain bronze 2:55.83; 16 teams competed.
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres
Men's 400 metres at Paris 2024 Olympics: track event at the Stade de France, final 7 August 2024; Quincy Hall (USA) won gold, Matthew Hudson-Smith (GBR) silver, Muzala Samukonga (Zambia) bronze; van Niekerk's 43.03 Olympic record stood.
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
Men's 400 m hurdles, Paris 2024 Olympics (5–9 August, Stade de France): Rai Benjamin won gold in 46.46, beating Karsten Warholm (47.06) and Alison dos Santos (47.26), reversing the Tokyo 2020 podium; fifth-fastest time ever.
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres
Men's 5000 metres at Paris 2024 Olympics, held 7 and 10 August 2024 at the Stade de France; Jakob Ingebrigtsen won gold in 13:13.66, ahead of Ronald Kwemoi and Grant Fisher, with Joshua Cheptegei not running.
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres
Men's 800m at Paris 2024 Olympics, 7–10 August, Stade de France. Emmanuel Wanyonyi (KEN) won gold in 1:41.19 PB, edging Marco Arop (CAN, 1:41.20) by 0.01; Djamel Sedjati (ALG) took bronze.
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon
Men's decathlon, Paris 2024 Olympics (2–3 August 2024, Stade de France); won by Markus Rooth of Norway with 8796 points. Kevin Mayer withdrew injured and defending champion Damian Warner DNF'd; Olympic record 9018 (Warner) and world record 9126 (Mayer) stood.