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 ...

After losing his family to the concentration camps in World War II, Laskua found his way to America. Switching from distance running to race walking, Laskua became a 3 time Olympian. It was during the ...

Enter race walking: a sport that 'combines the endurance of long-distance running with the attention to technique of a hurdler or shot putter', according to USA Track & Field. And just because it ...

What is race walking? Race walking is an athletics discipline that falls somewhere between walking and running. In race walking, one foot must always be in contact with the ground. Breaking this rule ...

(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 ...