THEY TAKE XC SERIOUSLY in Terre Haute. Cross Country Town USA has invested another $2.3 million into enhancements of the LaVern Gibson course that for the fourteenth time will host the NCAA in November…
Garrett Kaalund has signed with Nike, even though as a USC athlete he had an NIL deal with On…
Shelby Houlihan has a sponsor again, having signed with Skechers…
Vinny Mauri, who shocked with his debut marathon of 2:05:54 in Toledo, has finally gotten a sponsor in Asics. His next 26-miler will be Chicago…
Connie Teaberry has left Northern Illinois after 22 years at the helm to take over the East Tennessee program after the retirement of George Watts…
Four-time Olympic walk champ Robert Korzeniowski has announced his candidacy for president of the Polish Olympic Committee…
Olympic marathoner Dakota Popehn has written a memoir called “You Think This Hurts.” It will come out next June, though it’s available for pre-order now…
Turner Washington, a 5-time NCAA champion for Arizona State, has returned to his alma mater to coach the throws…
European Athletics has decided that prize money is the best way to ensure that the top athletes participate at its continental championships during an Olympic year. For the ’28 Euro Championships in Chorzów, with a $4 million prize purse. Winners will get $34,000 each…
The Athlos NYC meeting was canceled, as the organization threw its efforts behind its London event…
The highest score in the WA Competition Rankings for a Continental Tour Silver meeting went to Italy’s Brescia GP. Its 89,683 points on the WA tables placed it 19th overall when compared to all levels of competitions in ’26…
Germany has chosen Munich to be its Olympic host candidate in bidding for the ’36, ’40, and ’44 Games…
The Beer Mile World Classic was held in Cologne on September 18. Elizabeth Laseter won in 5:56.1, edging Shelby Houlihan on the sprint. Corey Bellemore of Canada won his sixth straight in 4:42.10. The 3:57 miler last raced in a non-beer event two years ago…
When Beijing hosted the WC in ’15, the Chinese won 9 medals. Can they repeat that performance when they host in ’27? Some think not, pointing to the fact that only one Chinese made it to the Ultimate Champs…
Athletics Kenya president Jackson Tuwei says that “the work starts now” to prepare Nairobi to host the ’29 Worlds. “We have been allowed and respected to host this championship. What is remaining now is the work, and that work starts now for 2029.”…
Jeonbuk, South Korea, has put its plan to bid for the ’36 Olympics on hold as it works out whether a joint bid with Seoul is feasible. Last year, Jeonbuk topped Seoul in the candidate selection process…
Morocco’s investigation into the sexual assault of a minor that ensnared former British sprinter Leon Baptiste has brought punishments of several other ex-athletes, including double Commonwealth 110H medalist Will Sharman, who was convicted of participating in the enticement of a minor…
Asbel Kiprop, the ’08 Olympic 1500 champ later banned for doping, says he was recently drugged to the point of unconsciousness at a Kenyan nightclub. He currently works for the national police…
Toumany Coulibaly, who ran 45.74 in ’12 but never made a career out of track, has apparently made one out of blackmail. A French court has sentenced him to 10 months for a charge involving the distribution of sexually explicit photos. It is his 18th conviction…
A federal lawsuit claims that one of the elite prep athletes participating in the Nike Elite Program in July raped another athlete in a hotel room. According to the complaint, staff found the victim crying in a hallway, failed to call the police immediately and urged the minor to sign a statement saying that the encounter was consensual before her parents could review it. Both Nike and the co-sponsoring National Scholastic Athletic Foundation, disagree with the details but are declining further comment…
Sam Blaskowski, the breakout 9.89/19.93 sprinter from Wisconsin, found himself in a tempest after videos emerged of him as a high schooler using racist language and making racist jokes. He was called out publicly by Justin Gatlin and widespread condemnation followed. He was asked to leave Dennis Mitchell’s Star Athletics group that he had recently started training with. No public comment from his primary sponsor, Nike, but Blaskowski issued a public apology: “I take full ownership of what I said and want to sincerely apologize for using these words, I am embarrassed and ashamed of myself.”…
Long after retirement, the honors keep coming. Marie-José Pérec, the Olympic 200/400 winner in ’96, was awarded France’s Commander Of The Legion Of Honour at the Élysée Palace…
Lighting the cauldron at the Asian Games was Japanese hammer legend Koji Murofushi and his father, Shigenobu, a ’72 Olympic hammer finalist…
A bronze statue of Belgian middle-distance great Ivo Van Damme has been placed in front of the main entrance of King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, home of the annual Memorial Van Damme DL meet…
The Russian federation says that it is reaching out to mend fences with vault legend Yelena Isinbaeva, who now lives in Spain. Though she held an honorary Russian military position, she left Russia in ’23 after the invasion of Ukraine in order to be cleared of neutrality conflicts and maintain her position at the time on the IOC athletes commission…
Not only did Masai Russell go undefeated in the DL season, she also set a meet record in all 7 of her competitions…
Ulsteinvik, Norway, population 6208, dedicated Karsten Warholm Stadium in late September. The man of honor competed in the opening meet in his hometown stadium, taking the 400 in 45.97…
USATF Foundation maternity grants have gone to hurdler Jalaysi’ya Smith and distance runner Anna Camp-Bennett…
The Indianapolis Colts may be a leading contender for the NFL celebrity wives club. The team recently acquired Darius Slayton, husband of world heptathlon champ Anna Hall. Another player is the spouse of Olympic gymnastics star Simone Biles…
The apparent World U20 Record of 27-9¼ (8.46) in the long jump by Cuban Jorge Hodelin will not be ratified by WA because a drug test was not taken. The record remains the 27-6 (8.38) by Italy’s Mattia Furlani. Also, two U20 records in the mixed 4×1 will not be ratified because applications were never submitted: Fujian (China) 42.10 and Italy 41.75…
World Athletics has launched a new phone app to provide live results, performance data, games and more…
If you’re a fan of the Italian TV version of “Dancing With The Stars,” keep your eye out for an upcoming appearance by triple jumper Andy Díaz…
Manolo Karalís on competing with Mondo Duplantis: “I might even break the World Record and still only finish 2nd. We both have our strengths. He’s faster, I’m stronger. But there’s no single best way to be the best pole vaulter. Bubka and Lavillenie back in the day were different types too. And of course, I want to win competitions and trophies. We’re rivals, but also — and above all — good friends.”…
For the first time in 15 years, the NYC Marathon is changing its course. The adjustments are relatively minor, designed to “minimize the race’s impacts on the Bronx.”…
The Japanese organizers of the Asian Games in Nagoya opted not to build an athletes village, however they were met with a storm of complaints from some of the 17,000 participants who are not happy with some of the makeshift accommodations that included a cruise ship, temporary cabins and hotels…
A Christian nationalist school in Moscow, Idaho, is building a 2500-seat track stadium that will be named after controversial right wing organizer Charlie Kirk, who was killed last year.
Norwegian marathoner and mountain runner Ida Amelie Robsahm (2:29:47 PR) died at age 30 after a fall while running in the mountains on September 20…
Rumesh Pathirage came home to Sri Lanka an Ultimate Champs winner, but his javelins weren’t so lucky, damaged beyond repair on the flight…
Viewership in the U.S. for the recent Ultimate Champs averaged 702,000 for three days on the various NBC platforms…
A controversial complaint that BYU runners (men and women) were dressed immodestly for training as shown in social media posts got over 2 million views. A writer for the Salt Lake Tribune commented, “When religious people shame women into hiding their bodies, that sexualizes them. What exactly is immodest about a female athlete or any woman showing her stomach? What negative message does that send to Latter-day Saint women about how they should view their own bodies?”…
A New Jersey community has banned a race organizer from hosting events in its park for the next year after a half marathon proceeded during flash flood conditions and had some participants wading through waist-deep water. “This is nuts,” said one of the runners in a posted video…
Alison dos Santos says he can run faster than his WR 45.80: “We’re far from our limit. I’m excited to be able to run 45.8 now, but I’m looking forward to running 45.6, 45.4. I can’t give you a number, but I know it can be faster… We were just able to get better, get faster, to be perfect in our stride pattern. I got faster, I got stronger, I’ve been getting more mature too. The body needs to evolve.”
