To recap 2025, NewsForKids.net is taking a look back at some of the most interesting stories we’ve covered this year.
Today we’re looking at some great stories from the world of sports.
Two amazing athletes have completed incredible challenges to raise awareness and support for important causes. Deo Kato and Hilde Dosogne have both run thousands of miles to help make the changes they want to see in the world.
The 2025 Major League Baseball season has only recently started. But already, it’s got lots of people talking. But what they’re talking about might come as a surprise – a strangely shaped bat, called a “torpedo bat”. Some players believe the bat will help them hit more home runs.
The Tour de France is an extremely difficult bike race. Held in France in the summer heat, bikers race for days up and down mountains, on steep, windy, dangerous roads. The men’s race ended July 27 when Tadej Pogačar won the race for the fourth time. The women’s race finished Sunday with Pauline Ferrand-Prévot taking first place.
History-making tennis star Althea Gibson is being celebrated at the US Open this year. Monday would have been her 98th birthday. And 75 years ago today, Gibson became the first Black player to take part in the US National Championships. She led the way, making life easier for many future athletes of color.
In Tokyo, Japan on Monday, Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis won his third straight World Athletics Championships gold medal. He then went on to set a new world record of 6.30 meters (20 feet, 8 inches). Duplantis is widely seen as the greatest pole vaulter of all time.
On October 11, over 1,600 athletes took off swimming in the 2025 Ironman World Championship Triathlon. After their long swim, they biked for over 100 miles. Then they ran a marathon. Sixty athletes never finished the race. But 80-year-old Natalie Grabow did, setting the record as the oldest woman ever to finish the race.