January 2022

WITH EMMANUEL KORIR & Ferguson Rotich going 1-2 in both the Olympic and DL Final races (and with Korir scoring… Read More

JUST LIKE IN ’19, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Timothy Cheruiyot hold down the top two spots, but this time it’s the… Read More

ONCE AGAIN the top two contenders split their meetings, Soufiane El Bakkali and Benjamin Kigen each claiming a pair of… Read More

TOKYO WAS THE DEEPEST race of the year and the Florence DL was the fastest, leaving Zürich’s DL Final race… Read More

SORTING THIS ONE OUT was largely a matter of figuring which nations’ Trials races fit where in the skeleton laid… Read More

GRANT HOLLOWAY SUFFERED only a single loss, but that was a big one, coming as it did in the Olympic… Read More

THE ALL-TIME LIST GOT DESTROYED: ’21 produced history’s 4 fastest times and 5 of 6. The chief architect of destruction… Read More

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER No. 1 for Eliud Kipchoge, this one extending his record total to 6 (nobody else ever won… Read More

THE OLYMPIC FORMCHART went out the window in the heat & humidity of Sapporo, as did fast times. Handling the… Read More

WELCOME TO THE FINAL YEAR of Rankings at the 50K distance. Starting next year for its long walk the World… Read More

WITH A COMBINED 17-17-2 RECORD against the next six rankers, Gianmarco Tamberi was hardly dominant but a shared OG gold… Read More

EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT SEEM that Mondo Duplantis has been atop the vault world for years now, this year’s No…. Read More

UNDERSCORING THE SO-CLOSE nature of the margin between Miltiádis Tentóglou and Juan Miguel Echevarría, the Olympic title was decided on… Read More

CONSPICUOUS BY HIS ABSENCE: Christian Taylor, after a ruptured Achilles. For the first time since ’10 his name doesn’t appear,… Read More

NEEDLESS TO SAY, the top spot went to one Ryan Crouser, whose undefeated AOY season was one of the greatest… Read More

REIGNING NO. 1 DANIEL STÅHL lost 2 of his first 3 meets (to fellow Swede Simon Pettersson) before regaining his… Read More

POLAND NOT ONLY provided the winner for the sixth time in a row but also went 1-2 for the fourth… Read More

LIST LEADER JOHANNES VETTER picked a bad day at the office, his only loss coming at the Olympics (on a… Read More

DAMIAN WARNER DIDN’T JUST join the hyper-elite 9000-point club — as member No. 4 — he also came within only… Read More

AMERICAN RECORD SETTERS filled the first 3 spots, but with her 2 ARs in the 400H also being WRs, Sydney… Read More