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THE SPEAR HAS LONG BEEN RECOGNIZED as one of the toughest events in which to display a high level of… Read More

LAST YEAR, Ethan Katzberg became the first Canadian ever to be honored with the event’s top spot; this year he… Read More

THE COMETHROUGH performance of the year was unleashed by Daniel Ståhl in winning WC gold. That wasn’t the farthest throw… Read More

CUBAN ALUMNI didn’t match their 1-2-3 of ’24, but Pedro Pichardo (now Portugal) and Andy Díaz (now Italy) did score… Read More

THE YOUNGEST OF OUR LJ rankers, Mattia Furlani was great in the big meets, winning golds at both the World… Read More

RYAN CROUSER PROVED that he’s still the best shot putter on the planet. He also rated only No. 9 on… Read More

DIEHARD FANS of Dutch Warmerdam and/or Sergey Bubka might beg to differ but at this point one strongly suspects that… Read More

HE CAME UP ONE MEET SHY of a perfect season, but that wasn’t enough to keep Sang-hyeok Woo out of… Read More

SINCE HE WAS VOTED the U.S. Athlete Of The Year, it’s no surprise to find world champ Rai Benjamin atop… Read More

ONE TYPICALLY ANTICIPATES that the DL Final (in this case, in Zürich) and the WC/OG will play an outsized role… Read More

WITH INTERNATIONAL 10s remaining scarce, this year’s ordering predictably came largely down to separating how people ran in either the… Read More

FOR THE FIRST TIME since ’85 — think Doug Padilla, Sydney Maree & Bruce Bickford — the U.S. claims a… Read More

A STRANGE FEATURE of this year’s splash-and-dash was the preponderance of losses. The top 5: 1. Soufiane El Bakkali 2–2;… Read More

AND JUST LIKE THAT, a pair of Jakob Ingebrigtsen streaks came to an end. Since he’s barely 25, it’s not… Read More

DAVID RUDISHA’S WR of 1:40.91 is now 13 years old, but at the rate which fast times piled up this… Read More

A WC 7th-PLACER moving into the No. 1 Rankings spot? Unusual, to be sure, but we find ourselves with Jacory… Read More

TITLE No. 5 MOVED Noah Lyles into a tie with Michael Johnson for the runner-up position in career No. 1s…. Read More

VALENCIA, SPAIN, December 07 — On the rebound from a DNF in Chicago in October, John Kipkosgei (AKA John Korir)… Read More

VALENCIA, SPAIN, December 07 — The 2025 Valencia Marathon became the first women’s race ever to post two sub-2:15 clockings…. Read More

JAMAICA IS BACK! For the first time since Usain Bolt’s fifth and final No. 1 in ’16, the islanders have… Read More