Approaching the halfway point of the Paris Olympics athletics programme, the introduction of a repechage round has already proved controversial. Aimed at giving athletes a second chance of making the ...

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will have a repechage round for all individual track events from 200m to 1500m. The decision is a change from the standard competition format, and will include hurdles ...

Athletics’ controversial new repechage system, in use for the first time at these Paris Olympics, descended into farce on Monday morning when eight runners failed to show up for their races a day ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Olympic track and field has a new race for the 2024 Paris Games. Well, kind of. For the first time in Olympic history the track portion of the Games will include a “repechage ...

Paris 2024 brings with it a new wrinkle to track events: The repechage round. What is the Repechage Round? In semifinals, a certain number of top finishers in each heat qualify for the final round of ...

Dozens of hurdlers and sprinters will get a second chance at their once-in-a-lifetime moment thanks to a new rule at the Olympic track competition. That's the beauty of the repechage rounds. Starting ...

It’s good to try new things. It’s also good to acknowledge when the new things aren’t an improvement and should be discarded. More than half of the Olympic track and field program remains, but we ...

PARIS, France — Dozens of hurdlers and sprinters will get a second chance at their once-in-a-lifetime moment thanks to a new rule at the Olympic track competition. That's the beauty of the repechage ...