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WHILE SML SEEMS pretty clear as the year’s best, one shouldn’t overlook the impact that Marileidy Paulino had on the… Read More

ON FIRST BLUSH Lilian Odira looked like the best choice for No. 1, but a closer look at the world… Read More

HO-HUM: JUST ANOTHER year at the office for Faith Kipyegon, who racked up her record-tying fifth No. 1 in a… Read More

IN A BID TO run her streak of No. 1s to 3 years in a row Winfred Yavi cranked out… Read More

5000-METER SEASONS don’t come much better than the one that Beatrice Chebet essayed this year. (Just half the reason she… Read More

SHE’S STILL ONLY 25, but Beatrice Chebet first appeared on the fringes of world class in ’17. Very little of… Read More

IT WAS A BUSY YEAR for the all-time lists. Masai Russell produced history’s No. 2 time and Tia Jones &… Read More

THE LONG HURDLES really could use another Femke Bol/Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone matchup. Would you believe that they’ve only gone head-to-head 3… Read More

FUN STUFF! A trio of high-end performers, each with a win and a loss. The amusing part comes in in… Read More

THE PRE-COVID ERA of the 20K in this century was dominated by Russia and China, who earned 17 of the… Read More

THE HISTORY OF THE long women’s walk is little bit twisty-turny. There was no long race until ’17 when HM… Read More

JUST WHEN IT APPEARED that Yaroslava Mahuchikh was nigh on invincible, reality rose up and took a bite. The WR… Read More

BETWEEN THEM, American stars Sandi Morris (’16, ’18, ’22) and Katie Moon (’21, ’23, ’25) have grabbed the lion’s share… Read More

SHE COMPETED SPARINGLY (only 6 meets), but as an undefeated world champion with two DL wins and the best series… Read More

WITH WR HOLDER Yulimar Rojas’s rewriting of the all-time lists in the last few years, we became accustomed to 50-foot… Read More

THERE WAS NO DUCKING in this one. Jessica Schilder turned out for 17 meets and won 9 of them. HER… Read More

AT THE RISK OF getting carried away with ourselves, it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to tag Valarie… Read More

FOR THE SECOND year in a row, the unlikely site of western Canada (British Columbia to be specific) produced both… Read More

ANY RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN the Rankings order and the WC finish is apparently largely coincidental. What the Rankers did in Tokyo:… Read More

ANY TIME YOU FIND YOURSELF trailing only JJK on an all-time list, you’ve done something terribly right. And that’s what… Read More