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Every type of exercise has its selling points. But swimming is unlike any other aerobic workout in a few important ways. First, the fact that you’re submerged in water means your bones and muscles are somewhat unshackled from the constraints of gravity, says Hirofumi Tanaka, a professor of kinesiology and director of the Cardiovascular Aging Research Lab at the University of Texas. This makes swimming the ideal exercise for people…

When NASCAR started running stock cars in 1949, it deemed the division as Strictly Stock. The following season, the top series was renamed the Grand National Series until Winston became the sponsor in 1971. The Winston Cup Series lasted from 1971 until 2003 when pressure against the tobacco industry led to NASCAR aligning with telecommunications company, Nextel. In 2006, Nextel merged with Sprint and the series name changed…

FC Barcelona, arguably the most powerful soccer club in the world, will open a training academy in Austin this summer, with facilities at Circuit of the Americas and the new Round Rock Multipurpose Complex. The move is part of the Spanish giant’s push for a bigger footprint in the United States and a world-wide boost of its FCB Escola project. FCB Escola is the flagship FC Barcelona…

British Cycling has promised to overhaul its relationship with Team Sky and launched an investigation into what happened with the triamcinolone that was ordered by its doctor, as revealed at Wednesday’s parliamentary hearing. The revelations around Team Sky and British Cycling from the Ukad head, Nicole Sapstead, were described as “shocking” and “unacceptable” by the UK Sport chief executive, Liz Nicholl, at a press briefing in Manchester with the British…

A quickly growing youth cycling program in Middletown has been named the top cycling club in the country for 2016 by USA Cycling, the official organization for competitive cycling in the U.S. The Connecticut Cycling Advancement Program’s youth programs and teams have brought an increase of young riders to a sport traditionally dominated by adults. The organization, founded in 2013, has started 36 programs for 490 registered youth riders throughout…

BUY TICKETS: See the races in Atlanta Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 Ford crew chief Drew Blickensderfer has been fined $10,000 for lug nut(s) that were not properly installed at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR announced Wednesday afternoon.  Blickensderfer took over for Trent Owens as crew chief for Aric Almirola ahead of last fall’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway. Patrick Magee, crew chief for Harrison Rhodes’ No….

12:49 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment The tracks that host the bulk of NASCAR races saw their admissions revenues drop 7.4 percent in 2016, marking the ninth consecutive year of declines and the largest drop in the past four. International Speedway Corp. (12 tracks), Speedway Motorsports Inc. (eight) and Dover Motorsports (one) reported a combined admissions revenue of $221.1 million, down from $238.8 million in…

If you think NASCAR drivers are racing around the track for hours alone with their thoughts, you’re sorely mistaken. Drivers are in constant communication with their crew chiefs, spotters and pit crews, coordinating every detail of the race – who’s coming up behind them, when a crash is about to take place, whether the car needs new tires or just fuel on a pit stop. Of course, there’s a little…

Youngsters like Kaz Grala, a one-time AMS Legends driver who won the season opener at Daytona last week at age 18, are getting some of the circuit’s best rides despite their lack of big-track experience. Last year, William Byron, another AMS Legends racer, burst on the truck scene with little experience other than racing online and led the series in wins with seven.

British Cycling and Team Sky have no records at all to prove what was in a medical package carried to France for Sir Bradley Wiggins at the end of the Critérium du Dauphiné race in 2011, the head of the UK’s anti-doping agency has told a committee of MPs. In hugely damaging evidence for the two closely linked organisations, Nicole Sapstead said the team doctor who received the mystery jiffy…

It is an antisocial act that normally goes under the radar, but many swimmers have long suspected the truth: people are peeing in the pool. Now scientists have been able to confirm the full extent of offending for the first time, after developing a test designed to estimate how much urine has been covertly added to a large volume of water. Regular swimmers with a keen sense of hygiene may…

Four Hollywood studios are teaming up with the city of Los Angeles to promote its bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Disney, Fox, NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. will bring their combined star power and media savvy to boost L.A.’s chances of bringing the Games back to the city for the first time in more than 30 years. L.A. is going head to head with Paris for the 2024 Olympic and…

Childers wrote that her team is scattered all over India, where the women arrived as refugees from Tibet. The autonomous region of China — known as “the roof of the world” for its mountain ranges — has a volatile history with the government in Beijing. When the women came out of the embassy without visas last week, they looked at their coach for answers, Childers wrote. They had carried folders with their passports,…

LONDON Riders’ union the Professional Cyclists Association (CPA) is threatening legal action against world governing body the UCI over its ongoing trial of disc brakes. Fears that the brakes, a sharp-edged exposed disc, could cause serious injuries prompted the CPA to call for further tests before they are allowed to be trialled in more races. In a statement, the CPA, which represents the main tour team riders, said it was…

NASCAR Twitter has no chill today. This has been the most polarizing day in stock-car social media since Jeff Gordon was added as the 13th driver in the 12-driver Chase for the Championship back in 2013. The Daytona 500 was a crashfest with an unpopular winner in Kurt Busch. That’s the cause for much of the uproar right there. But the social media subset of NASCAR fandom is…

CLOSE x Embed x Share Another city dropped their bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The IOC will make their final selection on September 13th. USA TODAY Sports In this Aug. 1972, file photo, Olga Korbut, of Russia, throws up her arms in joy at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Aug. 1972.(Photo: AP) While the Russian media reported that Olympic gold medalist Olga Korbut sold several of her medals…

A number of Tibetan women’s soccer team players have been denied U.S. visas ahead of the Dallas Cup this spring, per The Guardian. Team captain Jamyang Chotso said that members of the Tibet Women’s Soccer team were told “we don’t have strong reasons to go to Dallas.” The U.S. Embassy in Dehli told 15 players they wouldn’t be granted visas for the 10-day trip. Chotso believes the United States government is concerned…

Caption Close DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Daytona 500 was sold out, the grid packed with celebrities, the fan area full of activities including a motorcycle “Ball of Death.” Owen “Lightning McQueen” Wilson was on hand, and so was Waka Flocka Flame, Gronk and nearly two dozen women scantily clad in Monster Energy outfits. One thing NASCAR had for its season opener was a much-needed spark and an atmosphere worthy…

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NASCAR’s first crack at running the Daytona 500 in three stages of 60, 60 and 80 laps was a success in the eyes of the sanctioning body, according to NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O’Donnell. “I’d say overall, really pleased,” O’Donnell said Sunday night after Kurt Busch’s first Daytona 500 victory. “We saw a lot of great, hard racing. Everybody knows that every driver wants…