There were no women athletes at the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896, because its founder, Pierre de Coubertin, thought women were "not cut out to sustain certain shocks". More than 100 years ...

The women’s 1500m final at the Paris Olympics takes place tonight, Saturday, August 10 at the Stade de France. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:15pm BST - 8:15pm local time. TV channel ...

Ledecky clocked in at 15:47.43, about 10 seconds off the time she posted when she won the inaugural 1500m freestyle event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics ... The women's 1500m has belonged to Ledecky ...

When I was a kid, I remember being so perplexed that women couldn’t swim the 1,500 — only men — in the Olympics. The longest distance for women in the pool was the 800. I swam my first mile ...

Joan Benoit Samuelson's victory in the marathon at the Los Angeles Games helped change the perception of women as athletes ...

will compete in the 1500-meter event in Paris. They have chosen to postpone testosterone hormone therapy to qualify for the women’s division. “Going to the Olympics is such a dream of mine ...