World Champs Men’s Decathlon — LePage Writes New Chapter For Canada
BOOKMARK THIS ONE: Canada went 1–2 for the first time in any event since the ’95 men’s 100. Tokyo gold… Read More
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World Champs Mixed 4×4 — Fab U.S. Finish Yields WR
THE U.S. MIXED RELAY defied multitudes of armchair analysts as well as a powerful Dutch team to smash the World… Read More
World Champs Women’s 100 — Richardson’s Redemption
BOUNCING BACK is not Sha’Carri Richardson’s thing. Her phrase for the season is “I’m not back, I’m better.” Thus we’ll… Read More
World Champs Women’s 200 — Jackson MR Captures Showdown
SELDOM DOES AN athlete’s performance make a rival’s mouth drop open in amazement. Gabby Thomas’s expression as she simultaneously watched… Read More
World Champs Women’s 400 — Paulino Steps It Up
IT’S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE Marileidy Paulino would have won the Budapest 400 regardless of who showed up. After all, her winning… Read More
World Champs Women’s 800 — Mu’s First Pro Loss
AS ONE WOULD EXPECT in the case of an Olympic and World champion undefeated as a pro, much of the… Read More
World Champs Women’s 1500 — Who Else But Faith?
NO SURPRISES. Faith Kipyegon, after 4 global gold medals at 1500 and 3 World Records in a stunning 50-day span,… Read More
World Champs Women’s Steeple — Yavi Strikes From 500 Out
KENYA’S BEATRICE CHEPKOECH made sure that the pace for the final of the women’s steeplechase would be honest. She went… Read More
World Champs Women’s 5000 — Kipyegon Makes History Once More
SOMETIMES NO ONE takes the short straw. In the 5000 final, every competitor knew that Faith Kipyegon has perhaps the… Read More
World Champs Women’s 10K — Crash-Up Finish Goes Tsegay’s Way
A MAGNIFICENT SPRINT finish versus Sifan Hassan brought Gudaf Tsegay 10,000m gold in 31:27.18 in just her third effort over… Read More
World Champs Women’s 100H — Unforeseen Blast From Past
FORMER WORLD CHAMPIONS don’t come in with much longer odds than Danielle Williams carried into the 100H. The 30-year-old Jamaican… Read More
World Champs Women’s 400H — Unstoppa-Bol
THE SIGHT OF Femke Bol collapsing to the track just 5m from the line in the mixed 4×4 on the… Read More
World Champs Women’s Marathon — Resurgent Beriso Bests ’22 Champ
AN ETHIOPIAN TEAM surge at 32K led by favored Amane Beriso cracked open the race, and at 38K Beriso broke… Read More
World Champs Women’s 20K Walk — Pérez Completes Spanish Double
A RUSSIAN PAIR had won the historic “sprint racewalking” Daily Double at the Edmonton World Championships of ’01 but no… Read More
World Champs Women’s 35K Walk — Pérez Wraps Spain Gold Sweep
THE “POCKET ROCKET” was magnificently metronomic. Again. No, not sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce taking on a new challenge. Rather racewalking’s compact… Read More
World Champs Women’s 4 x 100 — Team USA Defends
THE STARS WERE aligning for the US when they called upon two individual medalists to add some punch to an… Read More
World Champs Women’s 4×4 — Super Bol Anchor Takes It
THE MORAL OF the women’s 4 x 400 was that success can turn to failure — and vice versa —… Read More
World Champs Women’s HJ — Stirring Stand For Ukraine
IN A PURELY SUBJECTIVE poll of the most popular winners in Budapest, the likes of Noah Lyles and Femke Bol… Read More
World Champs Women’s Vault — The Meet’s First Shared Gold
TAKING THEIR LEAD from high jumpers Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Barshim at the Tokyo Olympics, Oregon22 winner Katie Moon of… Read More
