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FROM THE EDITOR — What If All The Olympics Were Shunted By A Year?
BACK IN THE FALL OF 1980 U.S. fans and athletes were still reeling from having been boycotted out of the… Read More
ON YOUR MARKS — May/June
HIGHER OR FASTER FOR RENAUD LAVILLENIE? The 33-year-old French vault star says that recent events have him thinking he will… Read More
LANDMARKS — May/June
Died: Francisco Aritmendi, 81 On April 12, in Guadalajara, Spain. The ’64 winner of the International Cross County Championships, the… Read More
STATUS QUO — May/June
HERE’S THE LATEST in the aches, pains & eligibility departments: It will be a bit of a wait to see… Read More
TRACK SHORTS — May/June
ANOTHER SAMPLING of what major players are up to in this year of the pandemic: Asthma sufferer Noah Lyles has… Read More
LAST LAP — May/June
HERE’S THIS MONTH’S collection of short takes on generally off-track activities that have gone a long way towards shaping the… Read More
CALENDAR — May/June
Tentative New 2020 Diamond League Schedule * = new date is the same as originally scheduled June 11 Bislett Games… Read More
FROM THE EDITOR — So What’s Up With T&FN?
YOU PROBABLY NOTICED that this issue of your favorite track & field magazine is labeled as March/April, rather than just… Read More
FAQ — What Has C19 Done To Our Sport?
IT WAS FORESHADOWING of the worst kind. The day after the Olympic torch was lit in Olympia, the Greek authorities… Read More
Focus On The U.S. Men’s Pole Vault Scene
THIS SURGE WON’T STOP. That’s our guess and the men of the U.S. vault corps have signaled it’s also their… Read More
Sam Kendricks Finds Ways To Beat The Best
As he surveys the current vault landscape from his position as 2-time reigning world champion and No. 1 World Ranker… Read More
Chris Nilsen Doing “Caveman Stuff” For Training
Chris Nilsen is by no stretch an average vaulter. The South Dakota senior is the reigning NCAA champion, the slayer… Read More
Cole Walsh Key Part Of U.S. Vaulting’s Youth Brigade
As the U.S. men’s vault has metaphorically flown over the moon in the past year—with a record for any calendar… Read More
New Pro Matt Ludwig Reaching New Heights
In a winter of striking vault performances, first-year pro Matt Ludwig was the man with the mostest in the soaring… Read More
Jacob Wooten Joins The 19-Foot Club
The dawn of an Olympic year—though now it’s a pre-Games season in hiatus of unknown duration—presented itself as a time… Read More
Andrew Irwin Juggling Vaulting With Farming
The ’20 indoor season went off with the bang of 10 U.S. vaulters flying up to 19ft-plus elevations and past… Read More
Focus On The U.S. Women’s Long Jump Scene
THE LONG JUMP is a fickle event for U.S. women. Unlike certain other disciplines where Team USA is awash in… Read More
Much-Bemedaled Brittney Reese Still Has Goals To Achieve
ANGERED WITH HER PERFORMANCE at last fall’s World Championships, where she failed to make the long jump final, Brittney Reese… Read More
Tianna Bartoletta Ready For Long Jumps Again
THE REINVENTION OF Tianna Bartoletta continues. The reigning Olympic long jump champ has hit some rough patches in the last… Read More
