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Snoop Dogg came within seconds — technically, 15.25 of them — of breaking the world record in the 200-meter dash after popping up to run the race at the U.S. Olympic Team track and field trials over the weekend in Eugene, Oregon.

Snoop had some stiff competition in the extremely unofficial trial race, running alongside four-time Olympic medalist Ato Boldon (who won bronze in the 200 meter at the 1996 and 2000 games) and Wallace Spearmon (a 200-meter specialist with several medals from the track and field World Championships). Of course, neither Boldon nor Spearmon has eight platinum albums,...

Every year, the Prefontaine Classic serves as the most prestigious international track and field event held in the United States, but with the Olympics just two months away, there is a little more at stake than normal this year. On Saturday, May 25, the best athletes in the world will come together in Eugene, Oregon to see how they stack up. This Diamond Series event will also serve as something of a preview of the U.S. Olympic Trials, which will also be held in Eugene in June. You can catch all of the action on NBC beginning at 4 p.m. Et. You can watch NBC with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream. You can also watch with Hulu Live TV, Fubo, Peacock, or YouTube TV. Peacock will also provide streaming coverage of the event.

How to Watch 2024 Prefontaine Classic When: Saturday, May 25, 2024 at 4:00 Pm Edt TV: NBC Stream:...

Cutscenes is a column exploring—and blurring—the intersection of cinema and video games."On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."―Ayrton Senna, three-time Formula One championship-winning racing driverIn August 2009, the sprinter Usain Bolt ran the 100-meter-dash in 9.58 seconds, beating his own previous world record by 0.11 seconds. Around the same time, Reza Noubary, a professor of mathematics, computer science, and statistics at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, estimated that the ultimate fastest time that a human could run 100 meters would be 9.44 seconds. Assuming Noubary’s calculation was accurate,...

With 10 days left before the delayed and (to many) disquieting Summer Olympics start in Tokyo, NBC Olympics executive producer Molly Solomon and three on-air analysts made the case for staying the course.

“As the world emerges from troubled times, we really believe the Tokyo Olympics will be the most meaningful Olympic Games of our lifetime,” Solomon said during a 30-minute press call. Joining her on the line were NBC Olympics analysts Ato Boldon, Rowdy Gaines and Nastia Liukin.

Initially slated for July 2020, the Games were postponed a year due to Covid-19. While large parts of the world managed to escape the oppressive lockdowns this year, Japan has seen a massive spike in infections as the vaccination rollout proceeds slowly. In response to the conditions, medical experts and other voices called for a postponement. In the end, the International Olympic Committee chose not to risk their billions in broadcast revenues and proceed with the Games.

Let the games begin: Mary Carillo, David Feherty and Ato Boldon have joined NBC’s Olympics coverage for the Xxiii Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, TheWrap has learned exclusively. Additionally, Joshua Cooper Ramo — the co-ceo of Kissinger Associates — will serve as a contributor in PyeongChang early next year. The new batch join previously announced correspondents David Chang and Scott Hamilton. Chef Chang will be making his Olympics debut in February. Also Read: Lindsey Vonn Says She Won't Represent Trump at 2018 Winter Olympics (Video) These Games will mark Carillo’s (pictured above) 14th Olympics — her 11th with NBC Sports.