THEY GOT CARDED: At the Ethiopian U20 nationals, more than 250 athletes were declared ineligible due to age cheating…
Allie Ostrander, who stepped away from pro track last year, has signed with NNormal, a trail running shoe manufacturer…
German runner Konstanze Klosterhalfen has left the Nike Union AC…
Olympian Reggie Jagers has enlisted and will continue his discus career representing the U.S. Army…
Josette (Norris) Andrews is now competing for the On AC…
The husband & wife team of Andre De Grasse and Nia Ali have moved to Orlando to work with coach John Coghlan…
Former marathoner Pete Pfitzinger will step down as CEO of Athletics New Zealand this June after 4 years in the post…
Arkansas has named its oval in the Tyson Center the Lance Harter Track in honor of the longtime Razorback coach in the last year of his career…
Marquette is cutting back on both its men’s and women’s track programs, turning them into non-scholarship entities for the 2025–26 school year…
Florida’s Div. II St. Leo University has dropped cross country and track…
How many people will watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony along the banks of the River Seine in Paris? Funny you ask! That’s just what organizers are debating amongst themselves. Some have called for a limit of 500,000, but the mayor of the French capital says, “We are in the middle of working on it and I do not want to get drawn into disputes over figures.”…
Noted Finnish statistician Mirko Jalava has produced a book, 50 Years of the World Athletics Cross Country Championships. All 690 pages of it have been published by World Athletics as a free-to-access e-book, and a print edition is available for $30 (includes shipping)…
When Mondo Duplantis jumped 20-0 (6.10) in Uppsala, Sweden, on February 02, it marked the best-ever season opener for anyone in history…
World discus champ Kristjan Čeh says he’s ready for an even better ’23: “Preparations for this year’s season were even better than last year… I expect this season to be similar or even a little better. It’s the first time we didn’t change anything in the preparations, I have the same technique, but the distances in Tenerife were a little better.”…
Look, up in the sky! What’s that looming above Tayler, Texas? It’s Fred Kerley: The city has spent $47,000 to create a huge mural on an oil storage tank honoring its favorite son’s win in the World Champs 100…
The French sports minister has announced that her nation will provide $1.06 million to help the Ukrainian team prepare for the ’24 Olympics and Paralympics…
After one of his marks was nullified this winter when he used illegal spikes, Olympic long jump champ Miltiádis Tentóglou decided to auction the infamous shoes off to raise funds for child victims of the earthquake in Turkey/Syria…
The Balkan Indoor Championships, set to be held in İstanbul, were canceled as a result of the earthquake…
Not a stat we normally stay on top of, but the fastest-ever outdoor 60 (not counting splits from 100 races) was run on February 25 in Jamaica, with Ackeem Blake hitting 6.42. That beat the old best of 6.48 by Kim Collins in ’14…
High jump star Mutaz Barshim has been named a humanitarian ambassador by Qatar Charity…
Phyllis Perkins, a one-time holder of the “World Record” in the 1500, died in February at age 89. She set her best of 4:35.4 in 1956. In the previous 2 years, the pioneering Briton had set records at longer distances, her best efforts 10:55.2 (3000) and 11:27.2 (2M)…
Chuck Hislop, who was head coach at Weber State for 37 years, passed away in February 22 at 86. Under him, the Wildcats captured 21 Big Sky titles in cross country and track…
Ethiopia’s Besu Sado has been sentenced to life for killing her husband in August ’22. She was the 9th-placer in the Olympic 1500 in Rio. Her last race was the ’22 Paris Marathon, where she finished 3rd in 2:23:16…
An Iraqi coach has been given a life ban by the AIU for supplying one of his athletes drugs without her knowledge. Karok Salih Mohammed was the coach of Danah Hussain, who was the country’s flag bearer at the London Olympics. Hussain is already serving a 3-year ban…
John Babington, who coached Olympic 10K bronze medalist Lynn Jennings among others, has been permanently banned by SafeSport after admitting that he sexually abused multiple runners he worked with. The 77-year-old Babington will not be criminally charged because the statute of limitations has run out…
Kazakhstan has been placed on the Competition Manipulation Watch List by World Athletics…
Sophie McKinnon, a WC finalist in ’19, left her custom-made shots outside her house in Great Yarmouth, England, only to have them stolen…
The African Games scheduled for Accra, Ghana, this year have been postponed to ’24…
The Millrose Games saw a bit of a bump in its TV audience on NBC, from 929,000 last year to 972,000 this time around…
The NCAA has levied its first penalties related to NIL violations. The Miami women’s basketball coach served a 3-game suspension for arranging a meet-up between two top recruits and a booster interested in NIL opportunities…
Britain’s Antrim Coast Half Marathon is bidding to host the World Road Running Championships in 2025–26…
Percy Williams won the 100/200 double for Canada at the ’28 Olympics. The medals he won were stolen in ’80 from the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame. Now the Canadian Olympic Committee has had replacements minted and given them to the family, which promptly donated them to the Hall Of Fame again…
Grammy winner Judith Hill will be the headline act at the Legends Jam that is part of the festivities surrounding the USATF Los Angeles GP on May 27…
A portion of every ticket sold for the European Indoors in İstanbul will go toward earthquake relief in Turkey…
The world best for 16-year-olds in the mile has fallen to Australian Cameron Myers, whose 3:55.44 broke the record of 3:58.07 that Jakob Ingebrigtsen set in ’17. “I expected to go under,” said Myers of the 4:00 barrier, “but not that far under.”…
Legendary multi-eventer Jackie Joyner-Kersee has written a children’s book called, Running For The Gold — Connecting Kids To Dreams…
Rome’s Diamond League meet has been moved — as it was in ’21 — to Florence. The usual Olimpico Stadium in Rome is being renovated to host the ’24 European Championships…
The parents of Julia Pernsteiner, a runner at Jacksonville University who committed suicide in ’21, are suing the school and former coach Ron Grigg for brutally bullying the learning-disabled student…
C.J. Ujah, the British sprinter whose positive tests in Tokyo cost the nation its 4×1 silver, has been ordered to repay the $12,724 he received in public funding…
Now that his 3000 World Indoor Record has fallen, Kenyan legend Daniel Komen has made it clear that his offer of a Mercedes and land to any Kenyan athlete who breaks his outdoor or indoor marks at that distance no longer stands…
Hamilton, Ontario, unable to enlist government support for its bid to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games, has dropped out of the bidding…
Division II’s Lake Erie has been placed on NCAA sanctions after the program admitted that its now departed coach provided more than $2000 in “impermissible recruiting inducements.” In addition to 2 years of probation and a $1500 fine, the program had to vacate its records for that period of time. Other NCAA schools have been barred from hiring the coach for any athletic position over a 2-year period…
While Colorado continues its investigation of its running programs under coaches Mark Wetmore and Heather Burroughs, a group of 44 track alums have signed a letter in defense of the coaches…
Mondo Duplantis: “I would like to jump 6.30 (20-8) just because it sounds cool. Not because it’s a limit, or anything like that.” ◻︎