<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Athletics on SportsOne</title><link>http://sportsone.world/categories/athletics/</link><description>Recent content in Athletics on SportsOne</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-IN</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:40:00 +0530</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://sportsone.world/categories/athletics/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>9.58, and a world record that has now stood for seventeen years</title><link>http://sportsone.world/posts/bolt-berlin-9-58/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:40:00 +0530</pubDate><guid>http://sportsone.world/posts/bolt-berlin-9-58/</guid><description>Usain Bolt ran the 100 metres in 9.58 seconds in Berlin in August 2009, taking eleven hundredths off his own record. Nobody has been within a tenth of it since.</description></item><item><title>1:59:40 in Vienna, and why it was never going to be a world record</title><link>http://sportsone.world/posts/kipchoge-sub-two/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0530</pubDate><guid>http://sportsone.world/posts/kipchoge-sub-two/</guid><description>Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon distance in under two hours in October 2019. The conditions that made it possible are exactly the ones that disqualified it.</description></item></channel></rss>