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On Jan. 6 Video Research, Inc. announced the viewership ratings for Nippon TV’s broadcast of the 101st Hakone Ekiden on Jan. 2-3.A total of 55,400,000 people tuned in during the complete 2-day broadcast, with 43,089,000 people tuning in on Day One and 44,250,000 on Day Two. The average audience size over the complete broadcast was 16,957,000, with an average Day One audience of 16,725,000 and an

A Chinese influencer ignored restrictions and race officials’ directions and ran on the Hakone Ekiden course to shoot video during the race’s uphill Fifth Stage on Jan. 2. He later apologized.The influencer, Shen Haoze, posts about running and marathons, and on the Chinese social media site Weibo has nearly 5 million followers. A clip of him running on the closed road course of the Hakone

 It was another record-breaking year at the Hakone Ekiden. All 13 of the course records, the 10 individual stages, the Day One and Day Two courses and the overall course, have been set since 2019, and out of those 6 fell this time, 2 of them broken by multiple athletes or teams. All of them had performances in at least their all-time top 6, and 9 of them in their all-time top 3.First Stage (

In 2023, Norway’s Stian Angermund tested positive for the banned substance chlorthalidone

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Happy New Year! The first Weekend Round Up of 2025 features plenty of fast and competitive racing; hopefully this continues throughout the year. James Rhodes brings you the highlights of the racing action.  The racing year ended with a bang, thanks to the Podium NYE 5k at Battersea Park. The event, sponsored by Mizuno, saw […]

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