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Clayton Treska lives in a hospital. Diagnosed in the summer of 2009 with stage four testicular cancer, the 30-year-old was told that his condition was terminal. Not long after, Treska checked into a hospital in Southern California and began experimental treatment, including high doses of chemotherapy, stem cell transplants and blood transfusions in a no-holds-barred wrestle with death. Read the story »
Lucy Danziger, who manages to balance both the pressures of life as the editor-in-chief of Self Magazine with the day to day challenges of being a mother and wife, will be featured during this Sunday's coverage of the Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3, presented by Ford, which appears on NBC at 4PM Eastern. Read the story »
This Sunday's coverage of the Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3, presented by Ford on NBC (4 to 5 PM) will feature the Chad Soileau's dramatic story - in March, 2006 he weighed 464 pounds and wore size 64 pants, but three years later he had slimmed down to 215 pounds and was able to compete in one of the world's most prestigious endurance races. Read the story »
Coming from a family with active parents who get their kids involved in sports at an early age is a definite plus to becoming a good athlete. That's Lindsay Wohlers' story. Read the story »
Among the crowd of more than 1,600 triathletes participating in the Rohto Ironman 70.3 Hawaii on June 5, 2010, will be hometown girl Bree Wee. Now a professional triathlete competing around the globe, Wee raced her first Ironman 70.3 Hawaii back in 2007 as an unknown in the age-grouper ranks. Read the story »
The usual suspects are all ready to battle it out in Florianopolis later this month in the men's race at Ironman Brazil, but they'll have some company. Read the story »
Growing up in Norway, Lisbeth Kenyon was not a born-athlete who loved to compete. She participated in sports such as swimming and cross country skiing, but didn't care for competition. Her brother was excelling in decathlon and her sister in swimming, but Kenyon was content to cheer them on. It was later that she caught the bug. Read the story »
As much as Joanna Lawn didn't have much downtime last year, her impressive victory at Bonita Ironman New Zealand last month signified one of the most impressive comeback's we've seen in the sport. Last July, Lawn was unable to even start an Ironman in Germany, fighting extreme fatigue, nutrition problems and issues with her alignment that pretty much stopped her in her tracks. Read the story »
