MILE QUEEN Faith Kipyegon plans to concentrate on the 1500 next season, but after that, “I train with marathoners and I hope I will not skip the 10,000m. I absolutely want to run a marathon when that time comes. I want to compete in the World Major Marathons too.”…
Dina Asher-Smith has split with her coach of 19 years and moved to Austin to train with Edrick Floréal…
Olympic sprinter Anavia Battle has left Austin and returned to Columbus to train with Ohio State assistant Joel Brown, who mentored her when she was a Buckeye…
Kenenisa Bekele has not renewed with Nike; instead taking a sponsorship offer from ANAT Sportswear…
Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake, now 33, is training for his fourth Olympics, with former training partner Michael Frater as his coach…
Ferdinand Omanyala has switched to the coaching of Geoffrey Kimani…
Briton Andrew Pozzi is now being guided by hurdle great Colin Jackson…
Jamaican teen star Alana Reid has moved to Florida to work with coach Dennis Mitchell and train with Sha’Carri Richardson.
UK Athletics fired its head coach, Stephen Maguire, without public explanation last month and hired Paula Dunn to take his place…
Cash performance bonuses are coming to the European Champs next summer, European Athletics has decided…
A seated technical official had his leg broken by a hammer at the Asian Games. The thrower, Kuwait’s Ali Zankawi, immediately ran to the 62-year-old official and improvised a tourniquet, stopping the bleeding until paramedics arrived…
European Athletics has named Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Femke Bol its Athletes Of The Year…
Agnes Ngetich, who lost her 10K women-only road WR after a course remeasurement in Brașov, Romania, says, “If my World Record will not be ratified, I still have time to set another one because I did not create the mess that happened on the course.”…
Portland assistant Jack Mullaney has taken over as head coach of the HOKA Northern Arizona Elite team…
The Atlanta TC’s Jay Holder has been named executive director of Running USA…
Olympic vault champ Jenn Suhr is now assistant coach at her alma mater, Roberts Wesleyan University…
Four-time world shot champion Valerie Adams of New Zealand has been elected chair of the WA Athletes Commission. Outgoing chair Renaud Lavillenie will stay on the commission but chose not to run again because of time demands. Canadian steepler Matt Hughes is the new deputy chair…
Marathon legend Rosa Mota of Portugal is still competing, having recently set a 65–69 WR of 1:26:01 in the half marathon…
Emma Oosterwegel of the Netherlands and Estonia’s Karel Tilga won the WA Combined Events Tour, pocketing $30,000 each…
The Pan-Am Games in Santiago, Chile, got off to a bumpy start when some of the broadcasting equipment was stolen on the eve of the games. Police recovered most of it quickly…
Nationwide, fans are still getting used to high schoolers signing NIL deals, now legal in most states. But a 7-year-old? Junior Olympic champ Seth Williamson of Florida has reportedly inked a deal with a restaurant, and will get a burger named in his honor…
A more expected sort of NIL deal went to Harvard’s Maia Ramsden, who signed with On Running…
Indian heptathlete Swapana Barman missed the Asian Games bronze by just 4 points, then alleged that her teammate who won the bronze, Agasara Nandini, is transgender. The Indian federation is investigating…
Dallas honored native daughter Sha’Carri Richardson with her own track, set in Kincaide Stadium, at the Jesse Owens Athletic Complex…
Former heptathlon great Jane Flemming, 58, has been named president of Athletics Australia…
Organizers of the Twin Cities Marathon canceled the event hours before it scheduled start because of expected heat and humidity in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Entry fees are expected to be refunded after talks with the event’s insurer…
Indoor track will be back in Philadelphia in time for the ’25 season, as Penn will be completing its $70 million facility the previous August. The 73,000 square foot facility will have room for 1000 spectators around the banked 200m oval…
Born To Fly, a documentary on Mondo Duplantis, will have its North American premier at the Austin Film Festival…
In an effort to get doping under control, the Kenyan anti-doping agency has set up a WADA-approved testing lab in Eldoret, a popular training center. No longer will test samples need to be sent out of the country…
Billy Maxwell died October 09. The Hall Of Fame coach spent more than 50 years at Texas, LSU, Tennessee and Nebraska. By the time of his retirement, he had mentored 28 individual NCAA champions and 350+ All-Americas…
Chuck Rohe died on October 02 at age 92. The Hall of Fame coach led Tennessee to 21 consecutive SEC titles in cross country, indoor and outdoor track…
Jane and David Ott have been added to the board of the USATF Foundation. Both were former Penn athletes as well as high school coaches…
The Foundation has announced that three athletes got a boost to their Olympic hopes by receiving Adopt an Athlete grants thanks to two donors. Shae Anderson, Brock Eager and Clayton Young will receive $10,000 each…
Rookie NFL star De’Von Achane is making headlines now because of his speed on the field for the Miami Dolphins. Not surprisingly, he has a track background, winning Gatorade’s award as the top Texas boys track athlete in ’20. At Texas A&M he ran bests of 10.14 and 20.20, making All-SEC as well as All-America in the 4×1…
The Maine high school cross country championships were postponed for a week after the mass shooting and the resulting manhunt…
A new biography of Marty Glickman has been published. Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend by Jeffrey S. Gurock covers not only his career as a sprinter, but his many years as a famous NYC sports broadcaster…
The NCAA has tightened up the windows in which athletes can enter the transfer portal. For track & field, its now a 30-day period in the spring beginning with the sport’s championship selection, and a fall period that runs December 1–15…
Nijel Amos, currently serving a 4-year suspension, may have gotten into more trouble by appearing at the start of the Orapa Marathon in Botswana. That’s apparently a violation of his ban…
Ben Blankenship has been awarded the Athlete Advocacy Award, part of IOC’s Climate Action Awards, in recognition of his role in the Endless Mileage Project, planting trees for every American miler under 4:00 (and women under 4:30).
The former vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee, Du Zhaocai, has been arrested on corruption charges.
Morocco’s Mohamed Massat won a half marathon in Ciudad Real, Spain, then insisted over the public address system that the recognition and the prize money go to Kenyan Peter Kariuki, who was led off course by race officials and ran an extra kilometer before finishing 2nd…
Our report on the Chicago Marathon didn’t mention it, but fans were abuzz after Kelvin Kiptum reportedly ran a 4:18 mile in the latter stages of the race. “The 4:18 mile was a myth,” says our reporter, Sean Hartnett. Race organizers have confirmed that while Kiptum ran the correct distance overall for his World Record, the 4:18 split was based on a misplaced mile marker…
One of the Chicago runners was less concerned about splits after abandoning her PR pace at mile 21 to rescue a kitten and find it a home. Sarah Boahn eventually finished in 3:31:35…
Marie-Josée Ta Lou, who turns 35 this month, says Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is why she is still competing: “She is constantly reminding me that she is older than me and she is still going strong. Her words are loud in my head every single day and she never gets exhausted of motivating me to wake every morning and do what I like. Shelly-Ann is one of the many reasons you will see me in Paris for what could be my last Olympic Games.”
David D. Bruhn and Jack Leydig have produced a new book, Distant Finish. As head of the West Valley TC, Leydig was in the middle of the NorCal scene at the dawn of the running boom, and the book is instant nostalgia, with accounts and results of various races, big and small, including Bay-to-Breakers, The Dipsea, Avenue Of The Giants Marathon, and others with national significance. The book is $29 from Heritage Books, Inc…
The National HS Federation has released its annual numbers on participation in all sports and once again, outdoor track & field leads the way. Track pulled in 1,091,338 students, while football had 1,028,761. Adding in cross country and indoor track gives our sport a total of 1.57 million students.