BABY OLYMPICS? Yes, Bahrain’s Olympic Committee is planning a third edition of this event, where more than 1000 children ages 3–5 compete in sports including track & field. Events will include a sprint, hurdles and relay…
Sounds as if NC State’s Katelyn Tuohy might be looking for a new uniform soon. She said in early May, “I haven’t decided when to turn pro yet, whether it’s now or after the fall, but that’s definitely the goal.”…
Two-time Olympic hurdle medalist Terrance Trammell has been hired as an assistant in Allen Johnson’s North Carolina A&T program…
LJ WR holder Mike Powell is back in the collegiate coaching ranks, having joined the Azusa Pacific staff…
Kenyan sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala has signed a deal with a French company and will move his training base to the south of France…
Steepler Dan Michalski has joined the Air Force World Class Athlete Program…
Ruslan Mashchenko is the new head coach of the Russian federation. The onetime 400 hurdler won silver at the ’98 Euros…
The World Race Walking Team Championships will be in Antalya, Turkey, on April 20–21, 2024. At this event, the 35K will be replaced by the new marathon mixed relay (see “Last Lap”)…
The World Indoor was scheduled to be in Nanjing, in ’20 and then ’23, but was postponed each time. Now the Chinese city is set to host the ’25 version on March 21–23…
The ’26 edition of the WIC is now on the calendar for March 20–22 in Toruń, Poland….
Ireland’s Cork City stop on the Continental Tour has been canceled, due to “significant delays” in the resurfacing of its track…
USATF has set its selection criteria for the World Road Running Champs, to be staged in Riga, Latvia, this fall. The mile and 5K spots will be offered to 1500 and 5000 competitors at USATF Nationals in July, in order of finish. The half-marathon team will be selected from the WA rankings for the half-marathon and 10K.
Len Miller, former UC Irvine and Arizona State coach and mentor of miler Steve Scott, died in March at the age of 85…
Coach Andreas Gustafsson had been suspended last year because of allegations of sexual misconduct. Now both SafeSport and USATF have removed the walker from their disciplinary lists without comment, reports the San
Diego
Times…
Italian high jump legend Sara Simeoni lost her ’80 Olympic gold medal to burglars, and has made a public plea for its return…
The Museum Of World Athletics (MOWA) released a comic book to mark Kids’ Athletic Day in May…
Missing from the collegiate schedule this season: the venerable Washington–Washington State dual meet. Apparently, the series has come to an end after 102 editions…
The National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint asking a judge to order USC, the Pac-12 and the NCAA to cease and desist from classifying athletes as “student-athletes” and instead refer to them as employees. By not doing so, the complaint maintains, the organizations have denied athletes their right to unionize…
Olympic marathon champ Peres Jepchirchir says she is skipping Budapest ’23: “I’m certainly not going to Budapest for the World Championships. I just want to concentrate on other marathon events for the rest of the season.”…
The sustainability program for Budapest ’23 has been awarded the highest ISO 20121 rating, the first in the history of the World Championships. From tree-planting to reduced carbon and waste emissions, the report calls Budapest a “good example.”…
He is Canadian, so perhaps its only logical that Olympic gold medal sprinter Donovan Bailey is joining a bid to buy the Ottawa Senators NHL team. Rapper Snoop Dogg, not quite so logically, is also part of the bid…
German sports minister Nancy Faeser says she can imagine the 2036 Olympics coming to Berlin, 100 years after Hitler used the 1936 Games to highlight Nazism. She said, it is “conceivable that you deal with it in a special way at the place where it happened, where exclusion and this terrible disregard for humanity took place.”…
Noting that the number of potential bidders for the ’36 Games is already in the double digits, IOC president Thomas Bach says that any city put forth by China would be among “the most welcomed.”…
WA has renewed its Ukraine fund to help athletes affected by the Russian invasion. The fund, currently at $190,000, helped to pay travel and accommodation to training camps, and will also cover costs of competing in the World Championships. It will also help replace equipment destroyed in missile attacks…
Training must be going well for Canadian decathlete Damien Warner. He thinks he has a shot at the 10-event WR: “We believe that we have all the right events to make a challenge at the World Record. It doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy or you can set a date and say it’s going to happen here. We just believe that if I’m healthy and I get the right circumstances that I can be capable of putting up a score that high.”…
The Boston Marathon raised a record $40.2 million for charities and nonprofits in this year’s race. More than 2500 athletes ran as fundraisers…
Kansas State has announced that it is transitioning its indoor football building into a track & field complex, complete with a permanent banked 200 Mondo track. The facility will be ready for training in December…
A group in Cleveland is raising money for the area to have an Olympic monument to honor more than 100 Olympians that have come from the area, including track greats Harrison Dillard and Jesse Owens…
Longtime Middle Tennessee coach Dean Hayes, who died in ’22, will be inducted into the Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame in June. Teams coached by Hayes won a record 29 OVC titles…
The development of the men’s and women’s track programs at Chico State is the topic of a new book by David D. Bruhn called Stride
Out…
After photos emerged of Iranian women without the legally required headscarves running a marathon, the head of the nation’s athletics federation resigned. This despite the organization not being involved in the race and the athletes not registered with the governing body…
Marathon great Eliud Kipchoge thinks London winner Kelvin Kiptum has what it takes to break 2:00. “Records are meant to be broken and I hope Kiptum does that in the near future. He is a man with a big heart.” ◻︎