AMBITIOUS: YouTuber IShowSpeed (real name Darren Watkins, Jr.) recently lost to Noah Lyles in a 50m challenge race. Lyles donated the $100,000 prize to charity. Watkins now says he’s aiming at the next Olympics…
Both Anna Hall and Gabby Thomas were selected for the Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit issue…
Yaroslava Mahuchikh feels she can fly even higher than her World Record. “I think that I have room for improvement. I think that jumps until maybe 2.15 (7-½), I can jump. I want to prove my skills and of course everything is possible.”…
In case you were wondering about Norwegian tax returns from the ’23 season, a newspaper has published the total pre-tax income for stars Jakob Ingebrigtsen ($2.3M) and Karsten Warholm ($1.4M). For Ingebrigtsen, that marked a doubling from the previous year…
Former World 1500 champion Jenny Simpson led the NYC Marathon for a bit, in the last race of her competitive career. She told LetsRun, “I know I have no business leading the New York City Marathon. Literally everybody tells you before a marathon to have fun and I thought, ‘What would be more fun than leading the New York City Marathon?”…
Houston will be honoring former coach Tom Tellez with a statue and a garden in the Carl Lewis International Complex, which will be opened in April…
Indiana State has named its outdoor track in memory of late coach John McNichols, who passed away in ’16…
Kansas State has named its indoor track for former coach Cliff Rovelto…
On Athletics is doing some athlete shuffling. Swiss runner Jonas Raess will move from the U.S. to Switzerland, while Tennessee alum Dylan Jacobs and Germany’s Robert Farken are going to join Dathan Ritzenhein’s Colorado training group…
Baylor alum Aaliyah Miller has announced that she is no longer training with Team Boss…
Northern Arizona cross country All-America Annika Reis has signed with UA Mission Run Dark Sky Distance…
TCU alum Gracie Morris has signed with Puma Elite, as has Oklahoma State alum Molly Born, who was 4th in the NCAA 10,000…
Shane Cohen, the NCAA 800 champ, has signed with Nike…
Idaho has hired Tracy Hellman as its new head coach…
Veteran coach Rahn Sheffield is joining the Stanford staff to focus on sprints and hurdles…
Just months after Grand Canyon University announced it would be joining the West Coast Conference, school administrators revealed it would instead be going to the Mountain West Conference, effective by ’26 at the latest…
It’s finally official: Tatyana Tomashova has been disqualified from the ’12 Olympic 1500 final. That will move Shannon Rowbury up to bronze…
Spanish website Relevo has reported that triple jumper Jordan Díaz had three whereabouts violations in ’22 but was excused from punishment by World Athletics. The first violation came the day he defected from Cuba and sought asylum in Spain. Díaz denies the story and has threatened legal action…
The Canadian government’s privacy commissioner is investigating WADA after complaints about how the organization handles biological samples and its disclosure of personal information about athletes to various federations…
France’s Morhad Amdouni, the ’18 Euro 10,000 champ, has been charged with domestic abuse and rape…
The two men who were convicted in the killing of Ugandan steepler Benjamin Kiplagat on December 31 were sentenced to 35 years in prison…
Former pro runner Matt Elliott, who U.S.-Ranked No. 7 in the 1500 in ’13, was arrested recently in Charlotte, North Carolina, charged with two counts of indecent liberties with a female high school student on the cross country team he coached…
Papa Massata Diack, the son of corrupt former WA/IAAF leader Lamine Diack, has been hiding from extradition in his native Senegal for years. Now he has another shot at redemption with a French court ordering a retrial of the ’20 case in which he was one of 76 convicted of soliciting bribes to cover-up Russian doping cases…
Nikki Hiltz has posted about the impending return (January 13) of Shelby Houlihan after her 4-year doping ban. “Part of loving someone is holding them accountable for their actions in a respectful and productive way, which is different from shaming them. I believe harassing Shelby isn’t productive. That doesn’t mean I, and many others in this sport, won’t expect accountability.”…
Popular singer Chappell Roan ran track and cross country while a high schooler in Missouri. She clocked a 20:06 for 5K cross country as a 9th grader…
The Night of 10,000m PBs, a big hit among British runners, will not be held in ’25, mostly to give officials a break for a year…
The Enhanced Games continues its buildup to a ’25 launch, with a number of major hires from Nike, Red Bull and Snapchat. The controversial venture is backed by a team of investors that includes PayPal founder Peter Thiel…
IOC head Thomas Bach joined with Olympic legend Kip Keino to dedicate the Kip Keino Sports Complex in Eldoret, Kenya, an 80-acre facility that will include a track and a 250-bed hostel, along with facilities for other sports…
Ethiopia’s Hawi Feysa, a former World Ranker at 5000, won the Frankfurt Marathon in 2:17:25, saying, “I liked running on the track. But I was injured quite often, so I decided to switch to road running. My next goal will be to run sub 2:15.” She added, “Two of my younger sisters are already that strong that they are living with me in Addis Ababa for training. I am sure that one day they will reach my level.”…
Allyson Felix teamed with Chamber of Mothers to provide child care to early voters in North Carolina…
The track people at the University of Wisconsin aren’t happy about the school’s plans to tear down their training facility, the Camp Randall Sports Center, and replace it with a $285 million facility that is supposedly “student athlete performance focused.” In reality, it features a 3-lane track three stories up with no training facilities for field eventers. Former head coach Ed Nuttycombe is among those who have spoken up against the plans, saying, “What you need to do to get ready this time of year, all the way until, say, March, you need an indoor facility. It’s critical.”…
Tumult has struck Australia as the government of Queensland balked over a half-billion dollars in additional infrastructure costs for the ’32 Olympics that it says were concealed by the previous administration. “This is an extraordinary amount of blowouts that the Labor Party have hidden from the people of Queensland,” said a deputy minister…
Hungary’s Supreme Court has overruled an election committee and allowed a referendum in Budapest on whether the city should bid for the ’36 Olympics. In 2017, when the country was making a bid to host the’24 Games, opponents gathered enough signatures to force a referendum, leading the government to withdraw the bid…
A return of the Olympics to Barcelona won’t be happening anytime soon. The City Council rejected an initiative to host future events, calling it “absolutely inopportune and absolutely illogical.”…
The Kenyan government has indicated that it will be backing a bid for the African nation to host the ’29 World Championships…
The bell used to celebrate gold medalists in the Stade de France during the Games has now been delivered to the Cathédrale Notre-Dame, which will be reopening next month, five years after fire destroyed much of the structure…
The World Athletics Indoor Tour has expanded to 61 meetings, with 9, the most ever, now tabbed as gold events: Astana (1/25), Belgrade (1/29), Boston (2/2), Ostrava (2/4), Karlsruhe (2/7), New York (2/8), Liévin (2/13), Toruń (2/16), Madrid (2/28)…
The executive committee of Nigeria’s federation is meeting to discuss possible punishments for two officials who failed to register Favour Ofili for the Olympic 100…
Starting January 01, the USATF umbrella will include the U.S. Paralympics track program…
World Athletics has picked up a new sponsorship from Honda, which will supply electric vehicles for the ’25 World Championships in Tokyo…
Domingos Castro, the 5000m 4th-placer in the ’88 Olympics, is now head of the Portuguese federation…
Steve Abernethy, a former Cal Poly steepler, has been named to the board of the USATF Foundation…
World Athletics published its fourth study on online abuse toward athletes. This one focused on the Paris Olympics and monitored the social media accounts over 1900 athletes, with over 800 abusive posts verified, many of them racist or sexual in nature…
The new president of the Russian federation, Peter Fradko, says one of his goals is a return to Moscow of the World Championships, which the Russian capital hosted in ’13. The current WA ban of the federation could pose complications…
Seb Coe, campaigning to be IOC chief, has said that the organization needs to improve and clarify its rules on transgender and DSD athletes. “The protection of the female category, for me, is absolutely non-negotiable,” he said. “If you are not prepared to do that, and that is where the international federations expect a lead to be taken, then you really will lose female sport and I’m not prepared to see that happen. I’m not sure that policy is clear enough at the moment.”…
Catherine Ndereba says that Ruth Chepngetich’s recent mind-blowing marathon World Record is not the last word in the event. “I foresee the times getting even faster as more athletes push the limits,” says the 2-time Olympic medalist.
“Technology has played a big part in the world marathon. Athletes can run even faster because of some of the shoes they wear which points to even greater stories and records in the future as this trend continues.” ◻︎