NEW PRO COACHING arrangements: Fred Kerley is being coached by 400 great Quincy Watts, saying, “I’m entrusting him to bring out the best version of myself in the most important athletic year of my career. Y’all ready?”…
Olympic 100 champ Marcell Jacobs is moving to Florida to work with Rana Reider: “I realized that I needed to completely change things.”…
Marvin Bracy-Williams has left Reider to work with Dennis Mitchell; he will train with Kenny Bednarek and Sha’Carri Richardson…
Brandon Miller has left Bobby Kersee and will become a member of the Brooks Beasts…
Former Syracuse All-American Amanda Vestri has joined ZAP Endurance…
The NIL beat: prep 800 leader Tinoda Matsatsa, now at Georgetown, signed with New Balance; Arkansas frosh Shawnti Jackson hooked up with Brooks; Stanford’s NCAA 5/10K champ Ky Robinson signed with On Running; triple jumper Jaydon Hibbert got a deal from Puma; New Balance also inked a crew of high school distance runners in Sadie Engelhardt, Ali Ince & Daniel Simmons as well as 400 star Quincy Wilson…
A reported road women’s-only 10K World Record of 29:24 by Agnes Ngetich in September turned out to be short by about 25m…
Ethiopia’s 17-year-old phenom Birke Haylom helped pace the WR 5000 at the DL Final. Her 3000 split of 8:26.03 was faster than the World Junior Record of 8:28.83, but will not likely be ratified since she dropped out of the race…
Another record that’s not his—Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran a beer mile as part of his bachelor party, clocking a 5:22, nearly a minute short of the world best…
Keturah Orji offers a tough self-assessment of her ’23 campaign: “This has been the worst season of my professional career. I moved back to Atlanta this year to be closer to my husband and friends in hopes that I could still maintain form. Unfortunately, this season turned out to be the opposite of those plans. Within sport we talk a lot about everything athletes sacrifice for great results, but no one talks about potentially sacrificing results for life and happiness. I’m still trying to figure out that balance.”…
Shamier Little, tweeting after it was announced that Eugene would host another Trials: “When they first announced Eugene for the Olympic Trials this morning, an Airbnb was $159 a night. I just refreshed the page and it’s $291.”…
Devon Allen finally joined the active roster for the Philadelphia Eagles in late September. He played a Monday Night game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, becoming the 32nd track & field Olympian to play in the NFL. He produced one kickoff return for 17y. “Hey, I’ll take it,” he said…
Conference restructuring continues apace, as Cal, Stanford and SMU have all joined the Atlantic Coast Conference. Virginia coach Vin Lananna says that while he’s sad to see the Pac-12 go and he welcomes the academic rigor of the institutions joining the ACC, he also sees a track upside: “It’s very possible that the ACC will be the strongest conference in cross country and probably will be the strongest in the middle-distance and distance.”…
Banned New Zealand runner Zane Robertson has been arrested in Kenya on charges of illegal possession of a firearm and attempted rape…
After a social media video showed the stadium bathroom littered with syringes and EPO packets, drug testers dropped in on the final day of the Delhi State Championships in India. Half of the competitors reportedly fled, in one case leaving the 100m final with just one competitor…
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s book. Far Beyond Gold, will be published in January. It’s described as her “personal story of struggles and victories, of faith and transformation.”…
Another new author: Germany’s Olympic long jump champ Malaika Mihambo, with her Jump Yourself Free. It’s subtitled, “From the life of a top athlete: My path to mindfulness and inner strength”; coming out this fall…
The Sports Examiner reports that the first day of the Pre Classic on NBC drew a viewership of 744,000, behind the live football games showing on four other networks…
Not only is Chase Ealey’s 68-1½ (20.76) an American Record, it is also the world’s best-ever for a spinner…
Only 4-plus months after giving birth German steepler Gesa Felicitas Krause won a 5K in 17:21…
Apparently 11,000 runners weren’t disqualified from the Mexico City Marathon, as widely reported. The number of DNFs and DQs was only 1807 of the 21,504 starters, reports Race Results Weekly…
Olympic Trials Marathon organizers are setting up a test event for December 03. Qualified athletes will be able to familiarize themselves with the Orlando course and the locations of mile markers and hydration stations…
The ultra-fast Boston U indoor track now has a newly-installed Beynon surface…
Robert Kimutai Ngeno appeared to be on his way to a win in the Buenos Aires Marathon in late September, when he was attacked by a stray dog after the 38K mark. Spectators eventually scared the dog away but the Kenyan, who had veered off course, was not able to catch the two competitors who passed him. He settled for 3rd in a PR 2:10:16…
WA has locked down the dates of two of its ’26 meets. The World Junior Champs in Eugene will be August 04–09, the World Road Champs will be in Copenhagen, September 19–20…
The next global meet that is still lacking a home is the ’27 Worlds. India has announced that it is launching a bid. “Hosting an event of the scale of World Championships is a very expensive affair, but as the fifth-largest economy of the world, we should host it. All major powers of the world have hosted it at least once,” said a federation official…
Out of 420,000 available tickets for the World Champs in Budapest, organizers report that 404,088 were sold. After Hungarians, the biggest ticket-buying nations, in order, were Britain, Germany and the United States…
Seb Coe says he looks forward to a full stadium at the ’25 Worlds in Tokyo: “It will be really the first big moment where I think people in Tokyo particularly, and in Japan generally, will see how beautiful the stadium is — but most importantly how beautiful the stadium is with passionate fans in.”…
Allyson Felix interviewed Britton Wilson for Glamour, and the former Arkansas star talked about the highs and lows of her ’23 campaign: “Now that I’m on the other side of this season, taking the time to rest and heal, I can look back and feel proud of how I pushed myself through this challenging period. Maybe I should have stopped running or not pushed so hard, but I’m proud of my determination and resilience in the face of such a tough situation.”…
USOPC head Gene Sykes says a new approach is needed for the Olympic movement: “To succeed, we need to expand the commercial success of our movement while uplifting its commitment to its values… We need to reinvent our business models, redefine our paths to success and rekindle the unique appeal of this movement with a new generation of fans.”…
In a congressional hearing on the U.S. Olympic system, a survey was reported on that cast doubts the effectiveness of SafeSport, “This data paints a picture of a center in potential crisis. The U.S. Center for SafeSport, while recognized by some, is not overwhelmingly seen as effective.”…
Poland has announced that it is throwing in its hat with a bid to host the ’36 Olympics…
Kristjan Čeh, the ’22 world champ in the discus, recently visited the University of Texas and its throws setup, according to Throwers Universe. “Too bad [he] isn’t recruitable,” quipped Longhorn throws mentor Zeb Sion.