IS A REAL SUB-2:00 marathon coming soon? Kelvin Kiptum missed by just 36 seconds in Chicago in October. Now he has signed on for the Rotterdam Marathon in April. “I’ll try at least to beat my World Record,” he says. “I know I’m capable of doing that, if my preparation works out well and the conditions are OK. And in that case, I will get close to the sub-2:00 barrier, so why not aiming to break it?”…
Not long after Grant Fisher departed from the Nike Bowerman TC, Cooper Teare did also. “Moving forward I feel it’s in my best interest to go another direction,” he posted…
Elise Cranny has also announced her departure from the Bowerman group. She is now reportedly training with Team Boss in Colorado with other ex-Bowerman women Vanessa Fraser, Kate Grace and Emily Infield…
New to the Atlanta TC Elite: 800 runner Luciano Fiore, Washington alum Aidan Ryan, Florida alum Gabrielle Wilkinson and also Canada’s Robert Heppenstall. Missing from the latest roster are roadie Emma Grace Hurley and 1:58.09 performer Allie Wilson…
Andrew Begley, former coach for the Atlanta TC, is reportedly starting a new training group in Indianapolis…
Former NFL star Randall Cunningham has joined the staff at his alma mater to be an assistant jumps coach. He will continue coaching his daughter, Vashti. Said head coach Carmelita Jeter of the UNLV alum, “To have a true Rebel on this coaching staff who knows the history and legacy of the university is priceless.”…
Isaiah Simmons is the new throws coach at Penn. Most recently he coached at Sam Houston State…
Tevin Hester will be the new short sprints coach at Clemson. The 7-time ACC champion while a Tiger, he has been coaching at Pitt…
Oklahoma fired head coach Tim Langford in early November, appointing Austin Davis as interim…
Arkansas’s Nickisha Pryce has inked a NIL deal with Puma. The Jamaican 400 champion (50.21 PR) was 3rd in the NCAA last year…
Olivia Howell now a grad transfer to Texas, has signed an NIL with adidas…
Athletic.net signed a 10-year agreement with the USTFCCCA to become the coaching association’s exclusive technology partner…
Gabi Rooker, who ran 2:24:35 to place 11th at the Chicago Marathon, did not run in college. Instead, she was a member of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s gymnastics team. “I didn’t have time for a lot of other sports in school,” she says…
Kenya has announced that it is setting up 40 training camps to prepare young athletes for the ’24 World Juniors…
In a looming battle over supershoes, Nike has sued New Balance and Skechers, saying that its rivals are violating patents that protect the Flyknit technology Nike uses in its uppers…
Hamburg has opted to stay in the hunt in the hopes of a regional German bid to host the ’36 Olympics. Munich has also, making it clear that the city would not apply without the approval of its residents. Joining the club is Berlin, with the mayor of the German capital giving a strong endorsement…
Not long after the IOC said that it had been targeted by fake news posts and a fake documentary on YouTube, the French government’s cybercrime unit said that the Paris Olympics were being targeted by other disinformation campaigns. In both cases, investigators said the likely culprit was Russia…
Russia, meanwhile, has appealed its suspension from the IOC to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS). No timeframe has been set for a verdict…
IOC head Thomas Bach has dismissed the suggestion that the growing number of wars worldwide should lead to the ’24 Olympics being cancelled: “According to the United Nations definition, there are currently 28 wars in the world. Our mission is a humanitarian mission for athletes and sports. We try to take this into account. People also need something to unite them.”…
Vault legend Renaud Lavillenie has penned an autobiography which is on sale now but only in a French-language edition, it appears. It is titled Je Ne Regrette (Presque) Rien, which means “I Regret (Almost) Nothing”…
Nigeria is taking tougher action against doping, following a number of bans in the last year. The Nigeria Athletic Athletes Commission is setting up two working groups, a testing pool initiative and a competition taskforce…
WA has confirmed the members on 3 of its commissions and 3 executive board committees. The Competition Commission includes Americans David Katz and Jasmine Todd on its 14-person roster. The Governance Commission includes American Norman Wain and Sunil Sabharwal of the U.S. will chair the Audit & Finance Committee. American Renee Washington was named to the Remuneration Committee. No U.S. representatives are on the Development Commission…
The financially troubled Virginia Beach Sports Center is being taken over by the City of Virginia Beach, after the city terminated its contract with the center’s management company and paid $6 million in various costs…
Darryl Beardall has died at age 87. The former BYU runner is thought to hold the world best for lifetime miles run at somewhere between 290,000 and 300,000. That figure includes more than 4000 races, 300 of them wins…
The overall women’s winner of the Abbott World Marathon Majors turned out to be a tie this year, with Sifan Hassan (London & Chicago) and Hellen Obiri (Boston & New York) each winning 2 of the circuit’s races. The $50,000 prize went to Hassan after the directors of the 6 races voted; Hassan had the faster time with her 2:13:44. Obiri got the $25,000 award for 2nd. On the men’s side Kelvin Kiptum finished ahead of Tamirat Tola…
Disaster was narrowly averted at the 5K on the streets of New York City the morning before the marathon, when a bus somehow drove onto the course and stopped just before it would have hit the lead men’s pack…
The NYC Marathon was the world’s largest 26.2-miler this year, with 51,402 finishers…
We can safely disregard reports from a few months ago that Kenenisa Bekele would run one last race before retiring. The Ethiopian great is slated to race the Valencia Marathon in December and says he has plans to race in the Olympics…
Is the one-race cross country season for Huntington’s Addy Wiley the shortest ever for a national championship campaign? Wiley, who just turned 20, captured the NAIA title with a 12-second margin…
After 7 years of making headlines with his fight against drug charges, Italian Alex Schwazer, the ’08 Olympics 50K champion, has said that he has lost his final appeal with WADA…
Steve Waithe, a former coach at Northeastern who was fired for “inappropriate conduct” toward female athletes, pled guilty in federal court to cyberstalking, wire fraud and a number of other fraud charges. Prosecutors say it all was part of a scheme to trick female athletes into sending him nude or semi-nude photos…
Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius will be paroled in January after 10 years in prison…
The husband of Agnes Tirop, accused in the murder of the double Worlds bronze medalist in October ’21, has been released on bail as he awaits trial. He has already spent 2 years in custody…
Olympian Amy Yoder Begley is now working at USATF as associate director of long-distance running programs…
Harry Coe, the son of WA chief Sebastian Coe, has started making his own way into the sports marketing business with his tech start-up Luscid. The company has already gained investments exceeding “seven figures.”…
Oregon has announced that it is partnering with 9 other universities worldwide to form the Global Sports University Network, “to be a world-wide expert and source of knowledge and policy advice in sport.”…
Old timers might remember the unsubstantiated turtle blood stories that came out of the brief Chinese women’s distance running boom of the ’90s. The latest doping revolution may be even stranger, with reports that some professional cyclists have been using blood from the marine lugworm, which can supposedly transport 40 times more blood than human hemoglobin. WADA says that no such doping cases have been discovered yet, but then the blood has a very short lifespan in the body, with a detection window of just 4-8 hours. It is already on the WADA banned list, as a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier…