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Tadej Pogacar takes Giro d'Italia race by largest margin in 59 years

STORY: Tadej Pogacar takes Giro d'Italia race by largest margin in 59 years SHOOTING TIME: May 26, 2024 DATELINE: May 27, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:21 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the 107th Giro d'Italia bicycle classic 2. various of award ceremony STORYLINE: Slovenian Tadej Pogacar on Sunday won the 107th Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) bicycle classic with the largest margin of victory the race had seen in nearly six decades. Pogacar, riding for the UAE Emirates team, also won six of 21 stages in the race, the most for a single ride in more than 50 years. The race, which finished in Rome, began on May 4 near Turin, in northern Italy. Pogacar's overall time was 79 hours 14 minutes and 3 seconds over 3,400 kilometers (around 2,100 miles) in 21 separate stages. Colombian cyclist Daniel Martinez was a distant second in the race, finishing 9 minutes and 56 seconds behind Pogacar. Welsh rider Geraint Thomas was third, a further 28 seconds behind Martinez. A Slovenian rider had never capt

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Nigeria grabs men's 4x100m relay gold at 13th African Games

STORY: Nigeria grabs men's 4x100m relay gold at 13th African Games SHOOTING TIME: March 20, 2024 DATELINE: March 22, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:50 LOCATION: Accra CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the men's 4x100m relay final 2. various of the Nigerian national team 3. various of the medals awarded 4. SOUNDBITE (English): ALABA AKINTOLA, Nigerian sprinter 5. various of the women's 4x100m relay final STORYLINE: Nigeria late Wednesday clinched the gold medal in the men's 4x100m relay at the 13th African Games in Accra, the capital of Ghana. The Nigerian quartet finished the race in 38.41 seconds to snatch the gold from Ghana, who won it in Morocco in 2019. Ghana came in second with a time of 38.43 seconds to receive the silver, as fellow West African country Liberia grabbed bronze, finishing in 38.73 seconds. SOUNDBITE (English): ALABA AKINTOLA, Nigerian sprinter "It feels good because I was in the same position last five years and Joseph (Paul Amoah of Ghana) ran ahead of me, and this year I was

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Charles Caudrelier Wins The Arkea Ultim Challenge - Brest

Arrival of Charles Caudrelier winner of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge on his Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana Team in Brest, France on February 27, 2024. The skipper wins the first solo round-the-world race in a trimaran by completing his circumnavigation at sea in 50 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds. Photo by Roignant JM/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Charles Caudrelier Wins The Arkea Ultim Challenge - Brest

Arrival of Charles Caudrelier winner of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge on his Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana Team in Brest, France on February 27, 2024. The skipper wins the first solo round-the-world race in a trimaran by completing his circumnavigation at sea in 50 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds. Photo by Roignant JM/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Charles Caudrelier Wins The Arkea Ultim Challenge - Brest

Arrival of Charles Caudrelier winner of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge on his Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana Team in Brest, France on February 27, 2024. The skipper wins the first solo round-the-world race in a trimaran by completing his circumnavigation at sea in 50 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds. Photo by Roignant JM/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Charles Caudrelier Wins The Arkea Ultim Challenge - Brest

Arrival of Charles Caudrelier winner of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge on his Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana Team in Brest, France on February 27, 2024. The skipper wins the first solo round-the-world race in a trimaran by completing his circumnavigation at sea in 50 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds. Photo by Roignant JM/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Charles Caudrelier Wins The Arkea Ultim Challenge - Brest

Arrival of Charles Caudrelier winner of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge on his Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana Team in Brest, France on February 27, 2024. The skipper wins the first solo round-the-world race in a trimaran by completing his circumnavigation at sea in 50 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds. Photo by Roignant JM/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Charles Caudrelier Wins The Arkea Ultim Challenge - Brest

Arrival of Charles Caudrelier winner of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge on his Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana Team in Brest, France on February 27, 2024. The skipper wins the first solo round-the-world race in a trimaran by completing his circumnavigation at sea in 50 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds. Photo by Roignant JM/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Charles Caudrelier Wins The Arkea Ultim Challenge - Brest

Arrival of Charles Caudrelier winner of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge on his Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana Team in Brest, France on February 27, 2024. The skipper wins the first solo round-the-world race in a trimaran by completing his circumnavigation at sea in 50 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds. Photo by Roignant JM/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Charles Caudrelier Wins The Arkea Ultim Challenge - Brest

Arrival of Charles Caudrelier winner of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge on his Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana Team in Brest, France on February 27, 2024. The skipper wins the first solo round-the-world race in a trimaran by completing his circumnavigation at sea in 50 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds. Photo by Roignant JM/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Charles Caudrelier Wins The Arkea Ultim Challenge - Brest

Arrival of Charles Caudrelier winner of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge on his Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana Team in Brest, France on February 27, 2024. The skipper wins the first solo round-the-world race in a trimaran by completing his circumnavigation at sea in 50 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds. Photo by Roignant JM/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Jones, Oldroyd retain titles at Queenstown Marathon

STORY: Jones, Oldroyd retain titles at Queenstown Marathon SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 18, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 0:03:44 LOCATION: Wellington CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the marathon STORYLINE: Host runner Daniel Jones and Hannah Oldroyd from Britain defended their titles in the men's and women's categories respectively of the Queenstown Marathon on Saturday as the picturesque event attracted over 11,000 athletes. Wellington-based Jones won the men's race in two hours, 31 minutes and 13 seconds, while Oldroyd finished first in the women's category with 2:49:50. "I'm feeling pretty stoked. I've been back training pretty well for the last six weeks and I felt just about ready to get in a good marathon today. 2:31, I think it was not my quickest time here, but I was pushed hard by some of those other guys earlier on and just managed to pull away in the second half and held my nerve and just managed to stick to it," said Jones. "There was such a good atmosphere again, running through Que

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China's "artificial sun" achieves breakthrough, key step toward fusion reactor

STORY: China's "artificial sun" achieves breakthrough, key step toward fusion reactor DATELINE: April 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:50 LOCATION: HEFEI, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. China's "artificial sun" achieving breakthrough 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): SONG YUNTAO, ASIPP director STORYLINE: The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), or the Chinese "artificial sun," achieved a steady-state high confinement plasma operation for 403 seconds on Wednesday, a key step toward the development of a fusion reactor. The breakthrough, achieved after more than 120,000 shots, greatly improved the original world record of 101 seconds, which was set by EAST in 2017. The ultimate goal of EAST, located at the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in Hefei, is to create nuclear fusion like the sun, using substances abundant in the sea to provide a steady stream of clean energy. Song Yuntao, ASIPP director, told Xinhua in an exclusive interview that the main s

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Swimming: Japan national championships

Takeshi Kawamoto competes in a men's 50-meter butterfly heat during the national swimming championships at the Tokyo Aquatics Center on April 4, 2023. Kawamoto set a new Japan record of 23.13 seconds.

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China takes gold in women's team sprint at UCI Track Nations Cup

STORY: China takes gold in women's team sprint at UCI Track Nations Cup DATELINE: March 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:50 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the competition 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): BAO SHANJU, Chinese cyclist 3. various of the competition 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): DAVID LAPPARTIENT, UCI chief 5. various of the competition STORYLINE: China bagged the women's team sprint gold medal on Wednesday at the 2023 International Cycling Union (UCI) Track Nations Cup in Cairo. China's trio of Bao Shanju, Yuan Liying and Guo Yufang finished their three laps around the 250-meter velodrome in 47.676 seconds, while Germany's squad of Pauline Sophie Grabosch, Emma Hinze and Lea Sophie Friedrich came second in 47.912 seconds. The 2023 Track Nations Cup is a chance for participating athletes to progress in their bid to earn spots at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): BAO SHANJU, Chinese cyclist "We got the gold medal in this race, so in the future, we will have less

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Japan's 1st athletics gold at Asian Games

INCHEON, South Korea - Takayuki Tanii of Japan crosses the finish line in the men's 50-kilometer walk with a meet record time of 3 hours, 40 minutes, 19 seconds to win the country's first athletics gold medal of the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, on Oct. 1, 2014.

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Japan's 1st athletics gold at Asian Games

INCHEON, South Korea - Takayuki Tanii of Japan crosses the finish line in the men's 50-kilometer walk with a meet record time of 3 hours, 40 minutes, 19 seconds to win the country's first athletics gold medal of the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, on Oct. 1, 2014.

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World swimming championships

BARCELONA, Spain - Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania swims in a women's 50-meter breaststroke semifinal heat at the world swimming championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 3, 2013. Meilutyte finished in a new world record time of 29.48 seconds.

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Swimming world championships

BARCELONA, Spain - Yuliya Efimova of Russia reacts after setting a world record of 29.78 seconds in the women's 50-meter breaststroke at swimming's world championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 3, 2013.

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Swimming world championships

BARCELONA, Spain - Yuliya Efimova of Russia sets a world record of 29.78 seconds in the women's 50-meter breaststroke at swimming's world championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 3, 2013.

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Women's 50m backstroke at world swimming c'ships

BARCELONA, Spain - Japan's Aya Terakawa starts in the final of the women's 50-meter backstroke at the world swimming championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 1, 2013. Terakawa won bronze in 27.53 seconds.

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Women's 50m backstroke at world swimming c'ships

BARCELONA, Spain - Japan's Aya Terakawa (L) and China's Zhao Jing hug after the final of the women's 50-meter backstroke at the world swimming championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 1, 2013. Zhao won gold in 27.29 seconds and Terakawa took bronze in 27.53 seconds.

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Women's 50m backstroke at world swimming c'ships

BARCELONA, Spain - Japan's Aya Terakawa (facing) and China's Zhao Jing hug after the final of the women's 50-meter backstroke at the world swimming championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 1, 2013. Zhao won gold in 27.29 seconds and Terakawa took bronze in 27.53 seconds.

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Women's 50m backstroke at world swimming c'ships

BARCELONA, Spain - Japan's Aya Terakawa swims in the final of the women's 50-meter backstroke at the world swimming championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 1, 2013. Terakawa won bronze in 27.53 seconds.

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Women's 50m backstroke at world swimming c'ships

BARCELONA, Spain - Japan's Aya Terakawa swims in the final of the women's 50-meter backstroke at the world swimming championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 1, 2013. Terakawa won bronze in 27.53 seconds.

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Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Kenya's Dennis Kimetto crosses the finish line to win the Tokyo Marathon at Tokyo Big Sight in the Japanese capital on Feb. 24, 2013, in a race record time of 2 hours, 6 minutes, 50 seconds.

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Japan's Otoshi finishes in women's race walk

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Kumi Otoshi (C) finishes the women's 20-kilometer race walk at the 2012 London Olympics on The Mall on Aug. 11, 2012. Otoshi placed 37th with a time of 1 hour, 33 minutes, 50 seconds.

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Kirdyapkin wins men's 50km walk

LONDON, Britain - Russia's Sergey Kirdyapkin wins the men's 50-kilometer walk at the 2012 London Olympics on The Mall in London on Aug. 11, 2012, with a time of 3 hours, 35 minutes and 59 seconds.

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Manaudou wins gold in men's swimming 50m freestyle

LONDON, Britain - Florent Manaudou of France embraces his sister after winning the men's swimming 50-meter freestyle final at the Aquatics Centre at the 2012 London Olympics on Aug. 3, 2012. Manaudou won gold in a record of 21.34 seconds.

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Morioka 6th in 50-km race walk at worlds

DAEGU, South Korea - Japan's Koichiro Morioka competes in the men's 50-kilometer race walk at the world athletics championships in Daegu, South Korea, on Sept. 3, 2011. Morioka finished 6th in the race with a time of 3 hours, 46 minutes, 21 seconds.

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Kitajima marks return to nationals with record-breaking swim

TOKYO, Japan - Two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima dives in at the start of the men's 50-meter breaststroke heat at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center on April 13, 2010, making his first appearance at the national swimming championships in two years. Kitajima marked a new national record of 27.30 seconds, trimming .13 second off the previous record.

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Kitajima marks return to nationals with record-breaking swim

TOKYO, Japan - Two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima competes in the men's 50-meter breaststroke heat at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center on April 13, 2010, making his first appearance at the national swimming championships in two years. Kitajima marked a new national record of 27.30 seconds, trimming .13 second off the previous record.

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Kenya's Kipkorir wins Beppu-Oita marathon

OITA, Japan - Jonathan Kipkorir of Kenya approaches the finishing line at an athletics stadium in Oita on Feb. 7, 2010, winning the Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon title in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 50 seconds.

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Koga reaches 50 backstroke final, Irie dumped out

ROME, Italy - Japan's Junya Koga swims in the semifinal of the 50 meters at the world championships in Rome on Aug. 1. The newly crowned men's 100-meter backstroke world champion qualified second fastest for the final of the 50 meters, touching in 24.29 seconds, 0.16 second faster than his own national record.

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Koga reaches 50 backstroke final, Irie dumped out

ROME, Italy - Japan's Junya Koga waves to spectators after qualifying second fastest for the final of the 50 meters at the world championships in Rome on Aug. 1. The newly crowned men's 100-meter backstroke world champion touched in 24.29 seconds, bettering his own national record by 0.16 second.

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Olympics: Alex Schwazer of Italy wins men's 50-kilometer walk

BEIJING, China - Alex Schwazer of Italy celebrates at Beijing's National Stadium on Aug. 22 after winning the men's 50-kilometer walk at the Beijing Olympics in 3 hours, 37 minutes, 9 seconds.

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Olympics: Cesar Cielo Filho of Brazil wins 50-meter freestyle

BEIJING, China - Cesar Cielo Filho of Brazil celebrates after winning the men's 50-meter freestyle final of the Beijing Olympics with 21.30 seconds at the Water Cube in Beijing on Aug. 16.

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Morita sets national record in Speedo's LZR Racer

ROME, Italy - Japan's Tomomi Morita rewrote the national record in the men's 50-meter backstroke donning Speedo's high-tech LZR Racer suit at a meet in Rome on June 6. Morita came in fourth place in the non-Olympic event but clocked 25.38 seconds to better the Japanese mark by 0.01.

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Hjelmeset pips countryman Estil to gold in 50-km classical

SAPPORO, Japan - Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset (R) edges out Frode Estil in leading a 1-2 finish for Norway in the men's 50-kilometer cross country classical in the final event at the Nordic world ski championships in Sapporo on March 4. Hjelmeset clocked 2 hours, 20 minutes, 12.6 seconds on the Shirahatayama course, 0.4 second ahead of Estil.

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Ramadhani claims victory at Lake Biwa Marathon

OTSU, Japan - Mitsuru Kubota, the top Japanese runner at the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on March 4, touches the tape in 2 hours, 12 minutes, 50 seconds. He was 2 minutes, 7 seconds behind the winner, Samson Ramadhani of Tanzania.

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Yamamoto cruises into 50-meter butterfly final

DOHA, Qatar - Japan's Takashi Yamamoto cruises through the heats, advancing to the 50-meter butterfly final on Dec. 5 in his bid to win a second gold medal at the Doha Asian Games. Yamamoto clocked the fourth-fastest time of 24.71 seconds, 0.12 off top qualifier Zhou Jiawei at the Hamad Aquatic Center,

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Japan strikes gold in swimming, gymnastics

IZMIR, Turkey - Backstroke swimmer Aya Terakawa gave Japan its first gold medal at the University Games in Izmir on Aug. 13. Terakawa, who placed eighth in the 200 backstroke at the 2004 Athens Olympics, won the women's 50-meter backstroke in a personal-best 29.06 seconds at the Manisa outdoor pool.

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Kitajima rewrites national mark in 50 breaststroke semi

MONTREAL, Canada - Olympic double gold medalist Kosuke Kitajima of Japan wrerites his national record to advance to the men's 50-meters breaststroke final at the world swimming championships in Montreal on July 26. He shaved 0.10 second off his personal best to finish third in his semifinal heat in 27.89 seconds.

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(1)Inada 3rd in women's 50-meter backstroke

BARCELONA, Spain - Japanese swimmer Noriko Inada waves to spectators after winning the bronze medal in the women's 50-meter backstroke final with a national record of 28.62 seconds in the world championships in Barcelona July 24.

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(2)Inada 3rd in women's 50-meter backstroke

BARCELONA, Spain - Japanese swimmer Noriko Inada shows off the bronze medal she won in the women's 50-meter backstroke final with a national record of 28.62 seconds in the world championships in Barcelona July 24.

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Kitajima breaks nat'l record in 50-meter breaststroke

TOKYO, Japan - Kosuke Kitajima looks at an electric scoreboard after rewriting his own Japanese record in the men's 50-meter breaststroke at the national swimming championships in Tokyo on April 22. Kitajima clocked 27.99 seconds in the semifinal at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center.

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Australia's Huegill renews world record at swimming worlds

FUKUOKA, Japan - Australia's Geoff Huegill renews his world record and wins the men's 50-meter butterfly semifinals July 27 at the world swimming championships at Marine Messe Fukuoka. Huegill clocked 23.44 seconds to eclipse the 23.60 he set at the Australian national championships in March.

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De Bruijn bags second gold at swimming worlds

FUKUOKA, Japan - Dutch world record holder Inge de Bruijn wins the women's 50-meter butterfly in the world swimming championships July 26 at Marine Messe Fukuoka. De Bruijn posted a time of 25.90 seconds to clinch her second gold medal.

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Kitajima sets 50-meter record in breaststroke at nationals

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Kosuke Kitajima sets a Japanese record in the men's 50-meter breaststroke at the national swimming championships at Yokohama International Pool on April 20 and earned a place at the world meet in Fukuoka this summer. Kitajima posted a time of 28.05 seconds in winning the final.

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Kawai wins 2 gold medals at Sydney Paralympics

SYDNEY, Australia - Blind Japanese swimmer Junichi Kawai adds a golden glow to his collection of three silver medals with a double gold medal performance at the Sydney Paralympic Games on Oct. 28. Kawai won the men's S11 50-meter freestyle with a Paralympic record of 26.37 seconds as he finally beat Daniel Kelly of the United States, who had denied the Japanese team captain a gold medal three times earlier at Sydney International Aquatic Center.