That dominance stretches back to the 1988 Summer Olympic Games, NBC said — the first year the network had the domestic telecast rights to the games since the 1970s. “Our NBCUniversal team ...
Beatrice Chebet smashed the women's 5-kilometer world record with a time of 13 minutes, 54 seconds at the Cursa dels Nassos road race in Barcelona as she finished a blockbuster year on a high.
The protests, scandals, and early elections that the country experienced in the build up to Pyeongchang 2018 were also present in the months before the Summer Olympics of 1988. In 1987, just one year ...
Yomif Kejelcha broke the men's half-marathon world record, finishing in 57:30 at the Medio Maraton de Valencia in Spain to shave one second off the previous mark.