THE ULTIMATE HONOR: After France’s Jimmy Gressier shockingly won the Worlds 10,000, soccer legend Zizou Zidane sent him an autographed Real Madrid jersey, with “Bravo Champion” written on it. The honor, said Gressier, is bigger than the gold: “I can die in peace.”…
Josh Hoey, one of the big revelations of the ’25 season, has broken with coach Justin Rinaldi. The World Indoor 800 champ told LetsRun that it came down to differences in ideas on how to prepare for the ’26 season…
Morgan McDonald, the Aussie who won 3 NCAA crowns for Wisconsin, has parted with coach Dathan Ritzenhein and the On AC, saying, “My time has come to move on.”…
The winners of WA’s Combined Events Tour: American Anna Hall and Norway’s Sander Skotheim…
Georgetown alum Abel Teffra was awarded the Dirk Rohloff Grant from the USATF Foundation, to provide financial support in his transition from college to pro running…
No surprise as the European Athletics Association named its athletes of the year: Femke Bol & Mondo Duplantis…
The USOC has named its new COO, Koby Langley. He will be reporting directly to CEO Sarah Hirshland…
The AIU notes that its global list of “ineligible persons” is now at 669. Leading nations on this wall of shame are Kenya with 142 and India at 129…
Giacomo Tortu, the brother of Italian sprinter Filippo, has been banned for 3 years by the Italian federation for spying on Marcell Jacobs. He is banned from track facilities for the duration…
British coach Vicente Modahl has been charged with multiple child sex offenses and is facing prosecution…
Andy Young, the former coach of Olympians Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie, has gotten a 3-year ban from UK Athletics on charges that he “placed performance above athlete welfare, ignored medical advice, and used manipulative and coercive behavior towards those he coached.”…
Coaches at Dodge City CC are under fire after staging an August practice in 102-degree temperatures. One frosh collapsed and was reportedly found by first responders more than 2½ hours later. The hospital reported that she was “on the verge of death” from exertional heat stroke and she spent three weeks in intensive care. Another athlete also went to the ER that day. A statement from the school said the practice was “well within established guidelines.” The college’s board chair said, “You know, they don’t call off the war when it’s too hot.”…
Iowa State has suspended several unnamed athletes from its top-ranked men’s cross country team for violating team rules. No details on the situation have been released…
Salman Iqbal, the coach of Olympic javelin gold medalist Arshad Nadeem, has been banned for life by the Pakistani federation, allegedly for violating the constitution of the regional federation he was president of. However, there are reports that the ban happened because he gave a critical reply to the nation’s sports board when asked to explain Nadeem’s poor performance in London…
The Belgian government is investigating whether any public funds were used to pay the $580 “loyalty bonus” that its nation’s athletes received in Tokyo for signing the Belgian federation’s code of conduct. One athlete called it “hush money.”…
NBC Sports has launched a new program called On Her Turf Athlete Collective to amplify the stories of women athletes. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, who inspired the series, was the first athlete featured…
Jefferson-Wooden was challenged by YouTuber MrBeast to race 100 male college students in the 100 on a practice soccer field at North Carolina. She handled them all easily, coming away with $100,000…
Alexis Ohanian reports that 3.75 million watched the broadcast stream for his Athlos meet, up from 3 million in its inaugural year…
Caster Semenya has ended her legal fight against the sport’s rules on sex eligibility, her lawyers saying that they will not pursue another appeal to the Swiss supreme court…
At the Toronto Waterfront Marathon, three elite Ethiopian women, all with PRs in the mid-2:20s, made a wrong turn on the course and finished with the half marathoners, more than 13 miles early…
Six members of the Montana State-Billings cross country team were injured in a car accident en route to a meet in early October…
It appears that Nike won the shoe sweepstakes at the Worlds, with 17 golds in individual events, followed by adidas (9), Puma (6), Asics (4), with New Balance and On each at 2…
Nafi Thiam shed light on her conflict with the Belgian federation that threw off her preparation for the Tokyo heptathlon. “I am relieved that the truth has come out. Leaked emails and messages within Belgian Athletics members stating in black and white that they didn’t want me in Tokyo and wanted to take me out of the selection. I’m deeply concerned that these individuals will remain in office and continue to influence my selections for future championships. I can’t emphasize enough how important change is right now.”…
In the fallout over the Thiam case, the chair of Athletics Flanders, Gery Follens, has resigned…
After years of foundering financially, UK Athletics has announced it will have a surplus for the last fiscal year…
Daniel Mesfun is not a well-known name among U.S. fans, but the 37-year-old former Eritrean qualified for the Olympic Trials with his PR 2:08:51 win in the Dublin Marathon in windy conditions. He’s been a U.S. citizen since ’23…
Nijel Amos, fresh off the end of his 3-year doping ban, has been hired as middle distance coach for the Iranian team…
Two-time Olympic 5000 finalist Ejgayehu Taye figured to be among the contenders at Chicago, her debut marathon. While she ran a promising 67:38 for the first half, she hit the wall and slowed to 1:43:57 for the second…
Carl Lewis is not a fan of the Enhanced Games, and doubts the event will happen: “I don’t think any records will be broken because I don’t think the event is going to happen because I don’t think the money will be there because I don’t think people would support it… the less oxygen we give to that subject and that event, I think the more challenging it would be for them.”…
According to a recent referendum 65% of Munich’s voters are solidly behind the city hosting another Olympics…
Berlin’s bid to host a coming Olympics survived a recent no-confidence motion in the regional parliament…
The Pan-Am U20 Championships, originally set for Vallavicencio, Colombia, were moved to Bogota at the last minute, due to the closing of a key highway because of heavy rains. USATF decided back in June not to send a U.S. team to the early-October event…
Asunción, Paraguay, has been selected as the host for the 2031 Pan-Am Games…
Tickets are on sale for the World XC Championships in Tallahassee January 10. They start at $10, with free admission for kids 12 and under…
The central French city of Limoges now features a world-class indoor facility that is scheduling a World Indoor Tour Challenger meet this winter. The 200 banked track has seating for 1200 and is named for Olympic champion Marie-José Pérec…
The University of Rhode Island is building a new outdoor facility that will be certified as a WA Class 2 venue, with seating for 200…
South Africa’s hopes to get the Cape Town Marathon onto the list of World Marathon Majors had a setback in October when this year’s edition was canceled at the last minute by high winds…
In what might pose a training challenge for walkers as well as runners, Slovakia passed a law slapping a 6km per hour (3.7mph) speed limit on pedestrians and cyclists. The measure, which goes into effect on January 01, applies to urban sidewalks, where authorities are concerned about increasing crashes with bikes and e-scooters. Opponents to the law would rather have built more bike lanes and banned e-scooters from the sidewalks…
Botswana’s Collen Kebinatshipi says he is gunning for Wayde van Niekerk’s 400 WR: “Records are meant to be broken. If I stay focused, if I stay injury-free, everything is possible.”…
Another one looking for WRs is Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone: “There’s still a lot to do. I’d like to run 49 seconds in the 400H and set my sights on the World Record in the 400. The time will come to make decisions, but there’s certainly a lot of work to do.”…
Cross country skier Therese Johaug of Norway, a 3-time gold medalist, will miss the ’26 Winter Olympics because of pregnancy, so says she is focusing on the half-marathon at the World Road Running Championships next September in Copenhagen…
We may start seeing Karsten Warholm in the occasional relay. He recently said, “There is a bit of this thing about running without hurdles. There are suddenly some relay events that could be interesting. We will see which way we go.”
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