GEORGIA ON MY MIND. Plans are being pitched for the first dedicated indoor track facility for the Peach State. The Atlanta TC and Atlanta Public Schools have teamed up to propose the Cheney Olympic Legacy Complex, to be built at what was the warmup site for track at the ’96 Olympics. The project will include a 200-meter banked oval as well as various community offerings. It will be based on New York City’s Armory Track…
Juliette Whittaker has signed with the Brooks Beasts…
Anna Camp Bennett has signed with Asics…
Makayla Paige has signed with Nike, as have Washington alum Chloe Foerster and Gracie Morris…
Arizona State’s new coach will be Ryan Vanhoy, who led Cal Poly to its third straight Big West title last spring…
UC Davis has hired Gavin O’Neal as its new head coach; previously he had been at Boise State…
Aaron Gordon will now lead Fordham; he had coached the previous 8 years at Dayton…
Josh Poole has been hired as head coach at Cleveland State…
Matt Logan has been named head coach at Evansville…
Former Newbury Park HS success Sean Brosnan has been hired as USC’s distance coach…
Jefferson Pérez, winner of the 20K walk in the ’96 Games, is the new head of Ecuador’s federation…
Tom McNab has died at 92. The British coach was perhaps best known for his work as a historian and writer. His novel Flanagan’s Run became an international bestseller…
The Virginia Tech cross country and track programs recently received a record gift of $1.2 million from Martha and Paul Seufer, parents of 7-time ACC champ Peter Seufer. The gift will fund the Seufer Family Pavilion at the outdoor practice facility, as well as a Champions for Life area at the fieldhouse, which will recognize program alumni and their post-competition achievements…
Nelson Évora’s return to competition is showing some fruit. The ’08 Olympic champion won his 28th Portuguese title in July…
Glasgow has hosted two recent editions of the Commonwealth Games, ’14 and this year. The only athlete to win gold in both? Aussie high jumper Eleanor Patterson…
With three jumps past 8.60 (28-2¾) at the Greek Championships, Miltiádis Tentóglou became only the third jumper in world history to do that. Carl Lewis did so 5 times, and World Record holder Mike Powell once…
There will be no French men in the 100 or 200 at the European Champs, the first time that has ever happened. Nor will there be a 4×1 for Les Bleus. Says ’28 Olympic coach (and vault medalist) Jean Galfione, “French sprinting hasn’t been doing well for several years.”…
Life in the fast lane: Sha’Carri Richardson pleaded no contest to a speeding charge from January. She received a sentence with no jail time…
SafeSport’s disciplinary database is now easier for visitors to access, with the organization publishing weekly updates of sanctioned and restricted individuals on its website. Says director Benita Fitzgerald-Mosley, “Knowledge is power and maintaining safe sport environments improves when information is as accessible as possible. By sharing weekly news updates of individuals who have been added to the Centralized Disciplinary Database, we hope to improve safeguarding through increased public awareness.”…
A notable high school coach has resigned. Bill Aris, who built the powerhouse program at New York’s Fayetteville-Manlius, has been dismissed following a district investigation over allegations that “Aris pushed kids to run while they were injured, and bullied and humiliated them for what they ate and how they performed.”…
European Athletics and the European Broadcasting Union have released a set of guidelines for broadcasters to avoid “sexualized” camera angles of female athletes. Perhaps crowd shots should also be considered…
Turns out Jake Wightman has a side gig if running doesn’t pan out. The ’22 world champion at 1500 opened a business called Last Rep Coffee last fall. It’s been named the official coffee supplier for the Ultimate Championships — on the basis of merit, not inside connections, surely…
Hurdler Masai Russell is aiming big: “I feel like sub-12 is definitely possible. I know I’m still very young, I’m still building and getting stronger, I’m still learning. When I turn 28, 29, 30 and when I get even stronger, faster and even more experienced, I think we will start to see 12.0s and 11.9s.”…
The European U18 Championships in Rieti, Italy, marked the first time that Eurovision Sport offered AI-translated live commentary in a variety of languages…
With a score of 93,581 in the WA performance rankings, Budapest’s Gyulai Memorial took the yearly lead against other Continental Tour meets, passing the LA Grand Prix (91,593). It is the highest score ever for a CT meeting…
Carl Lewis has been named official ambassador for volunteer recruitment for LA28…
The 800 at the USATF Championships was named in honor of coach Frank “Gags” Gagliano, who was head coach at Georgetown for 16 years and has mentored many top middle distance runners…
The European Championships will feature a total of $577,000 in prize money, with athletes authoring performances ranked in the top 10 to get a gold crown in addition to $57,700. Performances will be ranked using the WA scoring tables…
TV ratings for the USATF Championships were quite good: 1.1 million viewers on Saturday, 1.3 million on Sunday, a slight improvement from last year when the meet served as a major qualifier…
Need a light? A large collection of Olympic torches recently went up for auction. In case you’re planning your torch-buying budget for next year, expect to pay from $1300 (Winter Olympics ’18) to $91,000 (Mexico City ’68)…
This year’s ATFS Annual, Athletics 2026, edited by Stuart Mazdon and Richard Hymans, is now available on lulu.com. The must-have tome is packed with 614 pages of statistics and results…
We all knew baton exchanges were essential for a successful 4×1, but now a study quantifies it. Japanese researchers used high-speed cameras at the WC and found that the biggest predictor of success was not the PRs of the individual team members, but rather maintaining baton velocity through the exchange zone…
Breakfast of champions? Ja’Kobe Tharp has revealed that 3 hours before his hurdle WR he chowed down on McDonald’s: 2 cheeseburgers, large fries and 10 Chicken McNuggets. “Every time I run, no matter where it is. Coach Ken [Harnden] told me that I’m going to change my diet soon. But I mean, hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
