Let’s run through the list of do’s and don’ts, shall we?
The 2024 Paris Games are underway and the track and field events are among the most-watched sports in the Summer Olympics.
With a total of 49 medal events, track and field represents the biggest sport at the Games — and for the first time in Olympic history, it marks an equal number of events per gender (split into 24 men’s events and 24 women’s events).
Athletics is the larger grouping that track and field falls under, coving a wide variety sports broken into several running, walking, jumping and throwing disciples. Among them include pole vault, decathlon, javelin and marathons.
Running disciplines also include sprints and hurdles in a range of distances: sprint events include 100m, 200m and 400m, while hurdles similarly include 100m, 110m and 400m. Needless to say, those particular events go by, um, fast.
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