Sports News and Press Releases about Outdoor Industry Events
Want to stay up to date on the latest press releases and news about outdoor sports races and events including mountain biking, trail running, climbing, skiing and more? Scroll below to view all outdoor sports event news.
-
August 26, 2024
Hiker’s body found in Grand Canyon after flash floods; over 100 airlifted to safety
The body of a missing Arizona woman was found Sunday after she vanished when flash floods swept through Grand Canyon National Park. Chenoa Nickerson, 33, was last seen Thursday before a flash flood struck Havasu Canyon, about 30 miles west of Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, according to the National Park Service's press release. She...
-
August 22, 2024
Rochelle Gilmore climbed Mt. Everest – but did she take an illegal shortcut?
A news piece that emerged from Nepal in late June alleges that Australian former pro cyclist Rochelle Gilmore took an illegal shortcut in her 2023 expedition of Mt. Everest, skipping to a higher camp with a helicopter before a summit push on the peaks of both Everest and nearby Lhotse....
-
August 16, 2024
Huge Drones Will Remove Trash on Mount Everest
The Kathmandu Post revealed today that after a successful test in April, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the three authorities responsible for managing garbage on Everest. Drones will remove trash from the higher slopes of the world’s tallest mountain. This agreement applies to the Khumbu region, not...
-
August 13, 2024
Man Dies in Death Valley After 1-Mile Hike in 119-Degree Heat
Peter Hayes Robino arrived at the Natural Bridge trail’s parking lot in Death Valley on August 1 after a short hike in the desert. That afternoon, the National Park’s Furnace Creek weather station recorded a peak temperature of 119 degrees. Death Valley said it was likely that hot when Robino returned from the...
-
August 7, 2024
Why Are Olympic Skateboarders Allowed to Wear Headphones?
Japan’s Yuto Horigome wore Apple AirPods when he won gold in in the men’s street competition last week, as did bronze medalist Nyjah Huston of Team USA. Silver medalist Jagger Eaton, also of Team USA, wore Samsung buds; Canada’s Cordano Russell wore JLab. Of those companies, only Samsung is an official IOC partner. The others have no affiliation—they...
-
July 30, 2024
Report: Wildfires Increasingly Disrupt Camping Plans
The first wildfire started on May 10 near the remote town of Fort Nelson in British Columbia. With dry and windy conditions, the fire quickly spread to consume over 13,050 acres in three days. By July 22, a fire started near Jasper National Park, which prompted park evacuations as well...
-
July 24, 2024
Sex Beds and Secret Security: How Olympic Surfing Will Look Different From the CT
The Olympic surfing competition coming up at Teahupo’o later this week will look much different than WSL Championship Tour contests. Out with Christian iconography and coaches and surfers in the channel. In with secret service agents, freesurfing slots, tattoos and sex beds. The following is how the Olympics will differ from the...
-
July 3, 2024
How to Feed the Olympics
The Olympics are all about numbers: 1500, the number of meters in a freestyle swim; 20, the maximum-possible points in rhythmic gymnastics; 3 million, the number of bananas the culinary team at Olympic Village think they’ll need over the course of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which take place over two weeks...
-
June 27, 2024
Para Climbing to debut at the 2028 Paralympic Games in Los Angeles
This Wednesday, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Executive Board ratified the proposal to add Para Climbing to the LA 2028 sports programme. This is the first time a sport has been added to the Paralympic programme by an Organising Committee. It will join the 22 sports already included. Para Climbing will...
-
June 21, 2024
Two of LA’s 2028 Olympics events will now be hosted over 1,300 miles away
While Los Angeles Olympics boosters have long touted a “no build” process, meaning that no new, permanent arenas will be constructed for the games, an updated venue plan released shows that Southern California is not, in fact, fully capable of hosting every event. Two sports — softball and canoe slalom —...
