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A MARKETING DISASTER for the sport? That’s what many called the Devon Allen false start debacle, and it’s hard to… Read More

YOUTHFUL Alison dos Santos, who turned 22 in June, entered the meet in the favorite’s position on the T&FN formchart…. Read More

“I’VE ALWAYS BEEN an athlete to have a chip on my shoulder, since literally high school, from not being heavily… Read More

AFTER 30 KILOMETERS of patient running, Tamirat Tola pulled abreast of the leaders and nudged the pace under a 3:00/kilometer… Read More

STEP ASIDE, Maurizio Damilano. Make room, Jefferson Pérez. You’re not alone now, guys. Welcome to the club (of multiple men’s… Read More

JAPANESE STAR Daisuke Matsunaga took off “like a Mat out of hell.” Sprinting in a race that wasn’t a sprint,… Read More

AS USUAL OF LATE in the men’s 4×1, the big question going in was, “How will the U.S. gel, as… Read More

THE UNITED STATES put an emphatic end to the men’s running events, running away from the field and winning by… Read More

THEY SAY THAT the cream always rises to the top. Co-Olympic and 2-time WC champ Mutaz Barshim kept the bar… Read More

ON AN EVENING of superlatives across several events, Mondo Duplantis wrote his name for the fifth time into the annals… Read More

AESCHYLUS ONCE SAID, “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” Well, the father… Read More

IT WAS ALMOST OVER before it began. The men’s hop-step and jump started with a bang, as Pedro Pichardo posed… Read More

WHEN YOU’RE STANDING on the concrete berm at the rear of the Hayward shot sector and observe the ring about… Read More

DURING THE 5 YEARS following the Rio Olympics, Daniel Ståhl was The Man in the discus. A silver at London… Read More

WHAT WERE YOU DOING in 2013? Paweł Fajdek was winning his first World Championships hammer gold. 2015? Same. How about… Read More

THE MEN’S JAVELIN may have offered few surprises, but that didn’t make Anderson Peters any less impressive. The defending champion… Read More

AS THE DECATHLON’S START approached, the puzzling absence of world leader Garrett Scantling (8867 to win the U.S. title) was… Read More

“A-TEAM OR B-TEAM?” That was the question the U.S. had to assess when creating a line-up for the second-ever WC… Read More

DAY 3 OF THIS WORLDS was one for the history books as the U.S. team set medal count records. In… Read More

CRUSHED BY HER FAILURE to factor in the Tokyo 200, Shericka Jackson came to Eugene intent on a redo. In… Read More