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With so many events — running, throwing, jumping, hurdling, race walking and more — track and field has something for everyone. Here’s a breakdown of the wide range of events in the sport.

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If you’ve ever witnessed a track meet, you know there’s no shortage of action. Over the course of a single meet, there are dozens of contests taking place among all kinds of athletes: sprinters, jumpers, throwers, hurdlers, distance runners, race walkers and more.

The variety of races and competitions is one of the best things about track, said Steve Dolan , director of track and field and cross country at the University of Pennsylvania. With so many events, there’s bound to be one you enjoy, either as an athlete or a spectator.

Whether you’re looking for your next event to try or if you’re hoping to gain an understanding of the over 20 events featured at a track competition, check out this guide to learn from expert coaches in the sport, who explain what to know about the many disciplines in track and field.

But first, to follow along, it’s important to understand the track itself.

How Long Is a Lap Around the Track?

World Athletics, the international governing body for track and field, has set standards for competition tracks . One lap on the inside lane of a standard outdoor track is 400 meters. When there’s a 400-meter race, the runners go for one lap. A 200-meter race is half of a lap on the outdoor track.

Note: Standard indoor tracks are 200 meters long, so a 400-meter race on a standard indoor track would mean running two laps around the track.

When outdoor races are one lap or longer, you might hear an announcer refer to the “backstretch” and the “homestretch.” These refer to the two longer sections of the track, or straightaways. The “homestretch” is the straightaway where races finish, and the “backstretch” is the other straightaway on the opposite side of the track.

Almost all of the running and hurdling events at a track meet are held on the track. However, there are exceptions. At the Olympics, the marathon and certain race-walking events are typically held outside the stadium and finish on the track. At a standard middle school, high school, college or other professional outdoor track meet, the running events are held on the 400-meter oval.

The other events, like throwing and jumping, occur on the infield or another location near the track. These are the “field” events. From the track to the field, read on for an overview of each event below.

The Sprints: 60 Meters (Indoor Only), 100 Meters, 200 Meters, 400 Meters and 4x100-Meter and 4x400-Meter Relays

At the start of a sprint race, the runners in these events will have their feet in starting blocks — metal apparatuses that they use to explode off the line at the sound of the starter’s signal.

Sprinters are quick, of course, but to separate from the pack and become great, they need more than just raw speed, said Alton McKenzie , director of track and field and cross country at Georgetown University.

“In a short time, it gets very technical. When you get into the technicalities of trying to take a tenth of a second off your time, it takes a lot of work to do that,” he said.

Sprinters work on their starts, running form and techniques to shave fractions of a second from their times, which can make the difference between first and second place.

(Related: How to Get Faster at Sprinting, According to Experts )

While most of the sprints are individual events, there are also sprint relays. In these events, teams of four sprinters all run the same distance in sequence, passing a baton at each exchange between sprinters. In the 4x100-meter relay, for instance, the race is 400 meters total, with four runners each running 100 meters.

In an overlap zone that’s 20 meters long, each athlete passes the baton to the next runner, who then completes their 100 meters, and so on. In addition to the 4x100-meter relay race, there’s also a 4x400-meter sprint relay race.

Middle-Distance Running Events: 800 Meters, 1,500 Meters, Mile, 4x800-Meter Relays

These races don’t start from blocks. Runners will often start in a lunge position, feet planted on the track. Athletes who compete in these middle distances need a combination of speed and endurance.

The 1,500 meters has been run at the Olympics since 1896 and is a standard distance at college and international competitions. Sometimes referred to as the “metric mile,” this distance covers three and three-quarters laps on a standard track. This distance is 109 meters shorter than a full mile.

At some competitions, athletes race the mile. A mile is 1,609 meters long — and four laps of a standard track equals 1,600 meters. Therefore, full mile races start a little more than 9 meters behind the finish line.

The 800 meters is sometimes referred to as the “half-mile,” even though it is not quite half a mile. At some — but not all — meets, there’s also a 4x800-meter relay race. Just like the sprint relays, four runners team up and each run the distance for a total of 3,200 meters in the race.

(Related: 5 Coach-Approved Tips to Get Better at Running )

Long-Distance Running Events: 3000-Meter Steeplechase, 5,000 Meters and 10,000 Meters

These runs are endurance events. The 5,000 meters, or 5 kilometers, is 3.1 miles long. The 10,000 meters, or 10 kilometers, is 6.2 miles long.

In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, distance runners jump over large, hurdle-like barriers. On each lap of the race, as the athletes round the far curve of the oval track, they veer off to the inside of the track to jump over a water obstacle — a large barrier with a pool of water at the base.

After the runners clear the water obstacle, they return to the lanes of the oval as they continue racing. Over the 3,000-meter distance, steeplechasers run seven and a half laps around the track, tackling 28 barrier jumps and seven water jumps along the way.

Steeplechase barriers are different from the hurdles used in the hurdle races described below. In the men’s steeplechase event, according to the USA Track and Field (USATF) rule book , the barriers are 3 feet high, while women’s steeplechase barriers are 2.5 feet high. Both men’s and women’s steeplechase barriers are 3.96 meters wide.

Unlike hurdles that athletes jump over in sprint events, steeplechase barriers are fixed in place and won’t move if an athlete comes into contact with it. Since steeplechase barriers are thicker and sturdier than hurdles, runners can step on the top of the barrier to jump over it without knocking it down.

Race Walking: 20,000 Meters and 50,000 Meters

In race walking, athletes must always have at least one foot on the ground. If both feet come off the ground at the same time, the athletes would be considered running — not walking — and will be disqualified.

That doesn’t mean they’re moving slowly: The 2020 men’s Olympic champion in the 20K race walked at a pace of 14.8 kilometers per hour, or 9.19 miles per hour. That pace is about 6 minutes, 31 seconds per mile.

Race-walking events are not held at all meets — for example, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships do not have race walks — and they may be held in different distances than listed here. But at the Olympic Games , race walking is held at distances of 20 kilometers (20,000 meters) and 50 kilometers (50,000 meters).

At the Olympics, both men and women race the 20K, while only men race the 50K.

Road-Running Events: Marathons and Half-Marathons

The marathon is 26.2 miles long. Therefore, the half marathon is 13.1 miles. While many marathon and half-marathon races are held on the roads, separate from track meets, the marathon is the last athletics event held at the Olympics, and both the half-marathon and marathon are run at the World Athletics Championships .

(Related: 9 Important Marathon Training Tips for New Runners )

Hurdling Events: 100-, 110- and 400-Meter Hurdles

In hurdle races, runners must jump over a series of 10 metal hurdles on their way to the finish line. According to the USATF rulebook , men’s hurdles are 1.067 meters high for the 110-meter hurdles and 0.914 meters high for the 400-meter race. Women’s hurdles are 0.84 meters high for the 100-meter hurdles and 0.762 meters high for the 400-meter distance.

The hurdles are spaced throughout these distances. In the 400-meter distance, hurdlers will run 45 meters to the first hurdle, then 35 meters between each subsequent hurdle. In the 100- and 110-meter distances, the hurdles are 8.5 and 9.14 meters apart, respectively.

In most meets, men run the 110-meter hurdles, while women run the 100-meter hurdles. Both men and women compete in the 400-meter hurdles.

Jumps: High Jump, Long Jump and Triple Jump

In the high jump, athletes run to jump off one foot and try to clear a 4-meter wide , thin, horizontal bar. If they hit the bar too hard, the bar will fall off its stand, and the jump doesn’t count.

Since the late 1960s, athletes have traditionally jumped backward over the bar, with their back facing the ground and their chests facing the sky. After their backward jump, athletes land on a big cushion called a crash pad.

In the long jump , athletes sprint along a 40-meter straightaway toward a takeoff board. When the jumper’s foot hits the take-off board, they jump as far as they can into a pit of sand. The number of jump attempts each jumper gets can vary from competition to competition, but in general, the longest jump wins.

For a jump to be legal, the jumper’s toe cannot pass the end of the takeoff board before they jump into the air. If the toe passes this line, it’s a foul, and the jump doesn’t count.

In the triple jump , athletes sprint up to a takeoff board before performing three consecutive horizontal jumps. These are referred to as a hop, step and jump. The hop is a one-footed jump where the athlete lands on the same foot they took off with, so if they hop with the right foot, they land on their right foot.

The next jump, or step, takes off from one foot but lands with the opposite. For example, a right-footed hopper will land on their left foot after the step. Finally, there’s the jump, where the athlete jumps from their landing “step” foot as far as they can into a sand pit.

Getting all those steps right takes a lot of coordination, said Dolan. It can be difficult to keep your momentum going while switching feet and trying to do all three moves smoothly.

But doing so is the key to success: The winning triple jumper is the athlete who has the furthest distance from the beginning of their “hop” to the end of their “jump.” As with the long jump, the number of jump attempts may be different in different competitions.

Though they specialize in jumping, athletes in all three of these events must be strong runners, McKenzie said. Since they need to sprint up to their take-off point, they spend more time running, both in training and in competing, than they do jumping.

Just like in the high jump, pole vault athletes need to jump high in the air to clear a wide, horizontal bar without knocking the bar down. Just like high jumpers, pole vaulters land on a crash pad.

The difference, though, is the pole: Before jumping, pole vaulters sprint while carrying a long, flexible pole of fiberglass or carbon fiber . These poles can be as long as 5 meters .

The vaulter jams the pole into a box below the bar they’re trying to clear, and the pole bends. As it snaps back to straight, the pole flings the vaulter up in the air and — if they’re successful — over the bar. As with the high jump, the vaulter with the highest bar cleared is the winner.

Pole vaulters, Dolan said, must also be very coordinated to sprint fast, jam the pole in the right spot and stay in position for the maximum height to be achieved.

The Throws: Javelin, Shot Put, Hammer Throw and Discus

In all four of these events, athletes try to throw a piece of equipment as far as they can without stepping over a line or out of a circle. If they do, the throw is a foul and doesn’t count.

In the javelin, athletes throw a metal-tipped spear. The men’s javelin is 2.6 to 2.7 meters long and must weigh at least 800 grams (1.76 pounds). The women’s javelin is 2.2 to 2.3 meters long and must weight 600 grams (1.32 pounds) or more. Athletes run up toward a line and then throw the spear. If they step over the line, the throw doesn’t count.

Because the javelin throw is an overhead motion, baseball pitchers, quarterbacks and volleyball players — who perform a similar motion in their respective sports — often excel at javelin, said Nathan Ott , throws coach for Penn State University’s track and field team.

In the shot put , athletes throw a metal sphere called a “shot.” The men’s shot weighs 16 pounds, or 7.26 kilograms, while the women’s shot weighs 8.8 pounds, or 4 kilograms. The thrower usually holds the shot against their neck with one hand, then spins in a circle before throwing the shot as far as they can. Most athletes spin one and a half times before throwing.

The shot put circle has a diameter of 7 feet , or 2.135 meters, and has a board at the front of the circle, which athletes can brace against as they finish. But if their feet leave the circle, the throw doesn’t count. In most competitions, athletes throw six times. The athlete with the longest legal throw wins.

The hammer throw involves throwing from the same circle as the shot put, but the implement and the throw are much different. The “hammer” is a metal ball attached to a grip via a metal wire measuring 1.22 meters or shorter .

The metal ball at the end of the hammer weighs the same as the shot: The men’s hammer ball weighs 16 pounds, or 7.26 kilograms, while the women’s weighs 8.8 pounds, or 4 kilograms. Hammer throwers typically spin three or four times before releasing the ball and chain to let it fly across the field.

The last throw is the discus, where athletes fling a metal disc after one and a half spins in a slightly larger circle. The discus circle is 2.5 meters in diameter, compared to 2.135 meters for the shot put and hammer.

The men’s disc has a diameter of 22 centimeters and weighs 2 kilograms, or 4.4 pounds. The women’s disc has a diameter of 18 centimeters and a weight of 1 kilogram, or 2.2 pounds.

Combined Events: Decathlon, Heptathlon and Pentathlon

Each of these events is made up of multiple track and field events. Athletes in these combined events perform runs, jumps and throws during the meet, with each event scoring them a certain number of points. The points are totaled across all the events, and the athlete with the highest combined score wins.

The “deca” in decathlon is a prefix meaning 10, thus, the decathlon consists of 10 events: the 100-meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500-meter run. This event is only staged in the men’s category.

In the women’s category, athletes who compete in combined events usually participate in the heptathlon , which has seven events (“hept” meaning seven). The events are the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meter run, long jump, javelin and 800-meter run.

Dolan said these combined events attract athletes who enjoy different sports or whose strengths are balanced — they may not specialize in any one event, but they’re skilled at many of them.

At some competitions when there is not enough time or space for a full heptathlon, a pentathlon — consisting of five events — is held instead. This is the case at the World Athletics Indoor Championships . The events in an indoor pentathlon are 60-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, long jump and 800-meter run.

This is different from the modern pentathlon, which isn’t strictly track and field. This five-event combined competition , which is held at the Summer Olympics, includes a running event, but also includes disciplines outside of track and field — shooting, swimming, fencing and equestrian events.

At indoor meets, including the NCAA indoor championships , a men’s heptathlon is sometimes held. This event consists of a 60-meter run, long jump, shot put, high jump, 60-meter hurdles, pole vault and 1,000-meter run.

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Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

The Metro is stunning and provides an unrivaled insight into the city’s psyche, past and present, but it also happens to be the best way to get around. Moscow has Uber, and the Russian version called Yandex Taxi , but also some nasty traffic. Metro trains come around every 90 seconds or so, at a more than 99 percent on-time rate. It’s also reasonably priced, with a single ride at 55 cents (and cheaper in bulk). From history to tickets to rules — official and not — here’s what you need to know to get started.

A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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Navigation games on the streets and conversation clubs in hostels are all part of the fun of figuring out Moscow when you’re young at heart. Source: Press Photo.

Hugging strangers, reciting poetry and looking for bird-shaped graffiti is not usually part of a city tour—but Moscow Game Tour is no ordinary company.

Nikita Bogdanov, 25, founder of the company, says: “It’s not a regular tour, it’s a quest. You interact with Russian people, and you gain more experience.”

Moscow Game Tour is one of a new breed of innovative tours run by and for young people. They are either low-cost or free, and prioritise interacting with locals over traditional sightseeing.

Mr Bogdanov started Moscow Game Tour in 2009 to encourage visitors to explore areas outside the city centre. In the tour, which costs 700 roubles (about $22), participants are “players” and complete challenges that lead them to clues in the shape of a matryoshka doll.

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Many tasks involve asking passers-by for directions or trying a Russian phrase. Along the way, players discover interesting features such as a monastery canteen, or a Socialist Realist statue.

Some clues are easier to locate than others. “There was one spot that we absolutely could not find,” says Vera Baranova, 25, who took part in a quest at Tsaritsyno Park in south-east Moscow. “When we asked someone, it turned out that we were actually right on top of it.”

Mr Bogdanov also operates the Moscow Free Tour, which provides an overview of major sites between Kitai Gorod and the Kremlin free of charge. In peak season, this more traditional outing attracts between a dozen and 40 people every day; the Game Tour runs only once or twice a week and usually attracts between five and 10 participants. Convincing visitors to sign up for an unconventional tour can be a challenge. “The Free Tour is more popular because it’s more easily understandable,” Mr Bogdanov says. “For the Game Tour, you need to explain to people what it is.”

Business has picked up as Mr Bogdanov has formed relationships with hotels, major tour agencies including TUI and companies such as Google. This year, he also began receiving support from Moscow’s Committee for Tourism and the Hotel Industry, which has launched a programme called “Moscow Fresh” to support creative tourism.

Moscow Game Tour is one of a new breed of innovative tours run by and for young people. Source: Press Photo.

In addition to the Free Tour and Game Tour, Mr Bogdanov’s company offers daily paid-for tours with a variety of themes. The retro Communist Tour visits central Soviet landmarks, including the Lubyanka (former headquarters of the KGB); the Gulag Museum; a Soviet-style canteen and Eliseevsky, a regal shop on Tverskaya Street considered the grandest store in the Soviet Union (which these days sells imported French yoghurt and other modern luxuries).

Visitors can also venture below ground on the Metro Tour.  The latter stops at some of the most ornate stations in Moscow’s beloved Stalinist metro system, such as the mosaic-adorned Komsomolskaya. In an attempt to supply visitors with information beyond the average pocket guide, the tour recounts little-known facts about the metro, such as how many babies have been born on it.

Alexei Sotskov, 30, was inspired to start Moscow Greeter , a local franchise of the international Greeter network, after giving informal tours to friends. “I have a lot of friends in foreign countries, and when they come to Moscow I show them interesting places. So I thought it would be a great idea to start running a tourist service,” he says.

The greeters are mostly students learning English who take visitors to lesser-known sights, such as the former royal estate Kolomenskoye, as well as exhibitions and sporting events. The greeters not only show the tourists around but they also chat to them. “Greeters talk about their lives, their parents, where they’re from in Moscow, and where they study,” says Mr Sotskov. 

“Traditional guides just give people information they read in a book.”

Valentina Lebedeva, a second-year linguistics student, has been a greeter for two months. “When most people come to Moscow, they visit the Kremlin and everything, but they go back and they still don’t really get how people really live here,” she says.

“Greeters offers tourists a good way to get a real impression of Russia, so that you don’t just visit the usual tourist sights.”

Another unconventional tour company, Lovely Russia , also strives to provide a more engaging experience for tourists. “A lot of the tours I saw being run by tour providers were really boring, just buses with large crowds of 60 year-olds,” says the company’s co-founder Anna Shegurova, 25. “There was not a lot for a younger crowd, a more off-the-beaten-path kind of thing.” Lovely Russia offers a variety of $22 tours in English. Locations include metro stations, Constructivist landmarks and a “Moscow as it is” outing that winds through the city’s side streets. At the end of the tour, guides suggest places where participants can enjoy a beer.

Ms Shegurova says the guides try to show visitors “a different side of Russia”.

“It’s a great city with a really long and interesting history… but you wouldn’t really know unless you have someone with you who’s able to share this history and make it interesting,” she says.

For visitors without a guide, getting around Moscow can still be a challenge. Over the past year,  some English-language signs indicating the locations of historical sights have been put up, but metro and street signs remain in Cyrillic.

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“Coming here, it’s very hard to get orientated,” says Irina Tripapina, 25, the organiser of WowLocal . “We decided to compensate for the lack of information in English by establishing a community of volunteers who are willing to help visitors find their way.” After passing language and navigation tests, WowLocal volunteers are given T-shirts and badges emblazoned with the phrase “Ask Me, I’m Local.” 

“Tourists can meet WowLocal at any part of the city and at any time – even at night in Butovo,” says Ms Tripapina, referring to the suburb south of Moscow.

Since the project started in July, Ms Tripapina says it has recruited about 400 volunteers. She wears her badge every day on her way to work, and says she’s frequently stopped by foreigners asking for directions (as well as Russians looking for the metro).

Occasionally, she fields some more unusual requests: “Once, a guy from Britain asked me where to get a bowl of pelmeni,” she says.

WowLocal also brings together local people and tourists through city navigation games and conversation clubs at hostels. “We bring volunteers together with the travellers, so that they can share with each other,” explains Ms Tripapina.

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Alligator interrupts PGA Tour event with stroll across tee box

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There was a course-invader during the opening round of the PGA Tour 's Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Thursday.

But it wasn't a fan who interrupted play.

As golfers were preparing to tee off on the 17th hole at TPC Louisiana, an alligator made its way across the tee box . And the creature certainly didn't appear to be in a hurry.

A GATOR showed up to the tee box at the Zurich Classic in New Orleans 😳 (via @PGATOUR ) | @Zurich_Classic pic.twitter.com/VGrv6DrYY8 — NBC Sports (@NBCSports) April 25, 2024

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The gator deserves some credit for not waiting until one of the golfers was in their backswing to take its stroll. That's great golf etiquette.

There was more gator-related action from Round 1, too. The PGA Tour shared video of an alligator sliding into a pond near one of the greens.

Slip 'n slide (Gator version) 💦🐊 https://t.co/JXTY07Vz6i pic.twitter.com/45ATuyGO9A — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) April 25, 2024

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Nelly Korda has etched her name in the LPGA Tour record books, winning her record-tying fifth straight tournament with a two-stroke victory in the Chevron Championship for her second major title.

Korda joins Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2004-05) as the only players to win five consecutive LPGA events. Her previous major victory was in 2021 at the Women's PGA Championship.

The top-ranked Korda shot a 3-under 69 in the final round to outlast Maja Stark of Sweden, who birdied her final two holes to shoot 69 and pull within one. Korda stayed aggressive on the par-5 18th, easily clearing the lake in front of the green and setting up an easy up-and-down birdie for a two-shot victory.

“It’s been an amazing feeling these past couple weeks knowing that I can go on this stretch and that if I stay in my bubble and I keep golf in a sense simple and let it flow, then I can have so, so much fun out here,” she said.

Korda had a four-day total of 13-under 275 at Carlton Woods.

Her parents — former Australian Open tennis champion Petr Korda and Regina Rajchrtova — beamed as she was presented with the trophy.

“She had a difficult ’22 and ’23 in certain ways,” Petr Korda said.

“She did not win a tournament in ’23 and some things probably made her humble and (she) put a lot of work into where she is right now. Without the work and commitment, she would not be here. So seeing that, I’m very happy.”

Korda entered the last round one shot off the lead after completing the last seven holes of the weather-delayed third round early Sunday morning (local time) on a windy and unseasonably cool day.

She birdied two of her first four holes to take the lead. Lauren Coughlin birdied holes 13 and 14 to get within two strokes, but bogeys on the 16th and 17th holes put her four behind. She shot a final-round 68 finish tied for third with Canadian Brooke Henderson.

Korda nearly aced the par-3 17th, with her tee shot hitting the hole and hopping in the air before settling within 10 feet. She settled for par to maintain her two-shot lead.

Korda wowed the large crowd, which followed her throughout the day, by chipping into the wind for birdie on the par-4 10th hole to take a four-stroke lead. The 25-year-old raised her club above her head with one hand and pumped her fist after the ball rolled into the hole.

Haeran Ryu of South Korea shot a bogey-free 67 to enter the final round leading Korda by one. But the 2023 Rookie of the Year bogeyed the first two holes in the fourth round to fall out of the lead. She closed with a 74 and finished fifth.

Henderson was tied with Korda for second to start the last round after she shot a 64 in the third round to set a scoring record for the tournament since its move from Mission Hills, California, to Texas last year.

But the Canadian, who has 13 LPGA wins with two majors, also faltered early in the final round, with a bogey and a double bogey in the first four holes.

Korda took home $US1.2 million ($1.8 million) from a purse of $US7.9 million, a significant increase from last year's purse of $US5.2 million. That brings her season earnings to $US2,424,216 and her career earnings to $US11,361,489.

Winners had been jumping into Poppie's Pond off the 18th green at Mission Hills since 1988, and Korda became the second to do it in Texas by leaping off a small dock into brown-tinged water.

World number two Lilia Vu was first to jump into the pond here after her win last season. She withdrew from this year's tournament before the first round after experiencing "severe discomfort" in her back during warm ups.

Eighteen-year-old amateur Jasmine Koo provided an unlikely highlight on the 18th hole. Her second shot bounced off the advertising board in the water and back into play. She ended up with a birdie to shoot 71.

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2024 Zurich Classic odds, picks, predictions: Golf expert fading Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry at TPC Louisiana

Sia nejad reveals his zurich classic 2024 picks, props, and sleepers for this week's pga tour event at tpc louisiana.

Nick Hardy and Davis Riley look to successfully defend their crown when they compete in the 2024 Zurich Classic, which begins Thursday at TPC Louisiana. After teaming up with different partners in 2022, Hardy and Riley got together for the event last year and took home the title as they set a tournament record with a 30-under par performance to finish two strokes ahead of the Canadian duo of Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin. It was the second straight top-five finish in the event for Riley, who tied for fourth with Will Zalatoris as his teammate two years ago.

Hardy and Riley are 80-1 longshots to repeat, while 2022 champions Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele are 5-1 favorites in the latest 2024 Zurich Classic odds. Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry are listed at 8-1, Zalatoris and Sahith Theegala are 11-1 and Collin Morikawa and Kurt Kitayama are 16-1. Tom Hoge and Maverick McNealy, along with siblings Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick, round out the top choices at 25-1. Before locking in any 2024 Zurich Classic picks, make sure you see the PGA Tour predictions and best bets from golf betting and fantasy expert Sia Nejad .

Nejad specializes in betting and DFS in golf, among other sports. He's had incredible success in the outright and first-round leader markets, as well as in betting head-to-head matchups. He also has been solid with his head-to-head matchups since last year's Charles Schwab Challenge, going 40-27-3 and returning 9.14 units over that span. That's a $914 profit for $100 bettors since May 2023.

Nejad also nailed 75-1 longshot Wyndham Clark as the outright winner at the Wells Fargo Championship. In 2023, SportsLine debuted The Early Wedge, and in the first three months of the show, he hit two first-round leaders and three outright winners.

Now, Nejad has focused his attention on the 2024 Zurich Classic field and has locked in his best bets, top sleepers and favorites to avoid. See who they are at SportsLine .

Top 2024 Zurich Classic expert picks

One surprise: Nejad is fading the team of Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry, even though they are among the favorites at +800. After recording 13 top-10 finishes, which included two victories and a pair of runner-ups in 18 events last season, McIlroy has posted just one over eight tournaments thus far in 2024. That came earlier this month when the 34-year-old was third at the Valero Texas Open. Since then, McIlroy has reverted back to the dismal form with which he began the year, as he tied for 22nd at the Masters and 33rd at the RBC Heritage last weekend. The No. 2 ranked player in the world was no better than 21st in his first four events before finishing 19th at the Players Championship.

Considering his compatriot's struggles, Lowry could feel more pressure than usual will be thrust upon him. However, the 37-year-old hasn't had much more success this season either, with just two top-10 finishes in eight events. Lowry, who hasn't posted a victory on the PGA Tour since winning the Open Championship in 2019, tied for fourth in the Cognizant Classic in early March and followed with a third-place performance in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Since then, he has tied for 19th, 43rd and 64th in three outings.

However, Nejad is high on the chances of Will Zalatoris and Sahith Theegala, who are listed at 11-1. Theegala set a career high last season with eight top-10 finishes, the last being his first PGA Tour win at the Fortinet Championship. The 26-year-old has begun this year in strong fashion, recording five top-10s in his first 11 events to match Ludvig Aberg for third-most in 2024. Theegala was runner-up at the Sentry in his season debut and is coming off another runner-up performance at the RBC Heritage last weekend.

Zalatoris did not fare as well in Hilton Head, tying for 44th place, but he has finished in the top 10 in three of his nine outings this season. The 27-year-old's best result of the year came at the Genesis Invitational in February, when he and Luke List were runners-up after finishing three strokes behind Hideki Matsuyama. Zalatoris is eager for a chance at another top-five finish in this tournament after missing last year's edition as he recovered from back surgery.  See which other teams to back at SportsLine .

How to make 2024 Zurich Classic picks

Nejad has locked in his best bets for the 2024 Zurich Classic and is backing several longshot teams, including one that is priced at more than +3000. This team has a member who "may be coming into form" and is a longshot that could surprise.  You can see Nejad's PGA Tour picks only at SportsLine .

So which teams should you target or avoid for the 2024 Zurich Classic, and which team in the   Zurich Classic 2024 field could bring a huge payday at more than +3000? Check out the odds below, then visit SportsLine to see Sia Nejad's top picks for the 2024 Zurich Classic , all from the expert who is 39-27-2 on his last 68 head-to-head picks.

2024 Zurich Classic odds, field

See Nejad's picks, best bets and predictions here .

Patrick Cantlay/Xander Schauffele +500 Rory McIlroy/Shane Lowry +800 Will Zalatoris/Sahith Theegala +1100 Collin Morikawa/Kurt Kitayama +1600 Tom Hoge/Maverick McNealy +2500 Matt Fitzpatrick/Alex Fitzpatrick +2500 Taylor Pendrith/Corey Conners +3500 Rasmus Hojgaard/Nicolai Hojgaard +3500 Taylor Montgomery/Ben Griffin +4000 Sepp Straka/Brice Garnett +4000 Nick Taylor/Adam Hadwin +4000 Keith Mitchell/Joel Dahmen +4000 Thomas Detry/Robert MacIntyre +4500 Doug Ghim/Chan Kim +4500 Davis Thompson/Andrew Novak +4500 Daniel Berger/Victor Perez +4500 Kevin Yu/C.T. Pan +5000 Billy Horschel/Tyson Alexander +5000 Beau Hossler/Sam Ryder +5000 Andrew Putnam/Joe Highsmith +5000 Aaron Rai/David Lipsky +5000 Thorbjorn Olesen/Matt Wallace +6500 Taylor Moore/Matt NeSmith +6500 K.H. Lee/Michael Kim +6500 Greyson Sigg/Chesson Hadley +6500 Gary Woodland/Lee Hodges +6500 Garrick Higgo/Ryan Fox +6500 Austin Eckroat/Chris Gotterup +6500 Steve Stricker/Matt Kuchar +8000 Nate Lashley/Rafael Campos +8000 Luke List/Henrik Norlander +8000 Kevin Streelman/Martin Laird +8000 Dylan Wu/Justin Lower +8000 Davis Riley/Nick Hardy +8000 Chandler Phillips/Jacob Bridgeman +8000 Carson Young/Ben Martin +8000 Ben Silverman/Kevin Dougherty +8000 Zach Johnson/Ryan Palmer +10000 Vincent Norrman/Jorge Campillo +10000 Nico Echavarria/Max Greyserman +10000 Alex Smalley/Matti Schmid +10000 Thriston Lawrence/Aldrich Potgieter +13000 Ryan Brehm/Mark Hubbard +13000 Justin Suh/Rico Hoey +13000 Jhonattan Vegas/Bronson Burgoon +13000 J.J. Spaun/Hayden Buckley +13000 Erik Barnes/Harrison Endycott +13000 Chad Ramey/Martin Trainer +13000 Carl Yuan/Zecheng Dou +13000 Sam Stevens/Paul Barjon +15000 Peter Malnati/Russell Knox +15000

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