FROM THE EDITOR — They Call It TrackTown USA For A Reason
HAYWARD FIELD 2022: has any other venue on the planet ever had as much world-class track action crammed into it… Read More
September 2022
LAST LAP — September
HERE’S THIS MONTH’S collection of short takes on generally off-track activities that have gone/will go a long way towards shaping… Read More
ON YOUR MARKS — September
MOST WC MEDALS EVER? Admittedly, that’s a contest that it’s hard for anyone but someone with sprint double/relay options to… Read More
STATUS QUO — September
THE LATEST in the aches, pains & eligibility departments: Some athletes were unable to make it to the World Championships… Read More
LANDMARKS — September
Reinstated: Jim Thorpe As sole winner of the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, by the IOC (see “Last Lap”). Died: Arne… Read More
FOR THE RECORD — September
Records reported since the August issue: W = World; A = American; J = Junior (U20) MEN TRACK 100 9.96… Read More
From Div. II To World Championships Medals
“I’VE ALWAYS BEEN an athlete to have a chip on my shoulder, since literally high school, from not being heavily… Read More
Root-Root-Root For The Home Team
FINALLY the World Championships came to America, nearly four decades after the first edition opened in Helsinki. Was it everything… Read More
2022 World Championships Medal Winners Chart
Clicking on the event name will take you directly to our story on it. MEN GOLD SILVER BRONZE 100 Fred… Read More
Podium, Sure, But A World Record-Setting Gold?
IT WAS A LIFE-TRANSFORMING weekend in Eugene for Tobi Amusan. In the space of hours the 25-year-old Nigerian hurdler went… Read More
World Champs Women’s 4×4 — Finding A Foursome
TO CALL THE MEET’S final race “eagerly awaited” might be an understatement. For many months the sport’s message boards had… Read More
World Champs Men’s 4×4 — Blowing It Open Early
THE UNITED STATES put an emphatic end to the men’s running events, running away from the field and winning by… Read More
World Champs Men’s Decathlon — The King Is Back
AS THE DECATHLON’S START approached, the puzzling absence of world leader Garrett Scantling (8867 to win the U.S. title) was… Read More
World Champs Women’s Long Jump — Mihambo Repeats
THE SLOGAN OF Oregon22 was “Feel the Glory.” All Malaika Mihambo could do was feel the pressure. The 28-year-old German… Read More
World Champs Women’s 800 — A Rivalry Resumed
WHEN IT COMES TO delivering, Athing Mu has usually been the driver, taking charge from the start and leaving her… Read More
World Champs Women’s 100H — 12.12 & 12.06w?!
THE ICING PRECEDED the cake, in a sense as Tobi Amusan blew every onlooker’s mind in her semi. The 4th-placer… Read More
World Champs Men’s 35K Walk — Stano Moves Up
JAPANESE STAR Daisuke Matsunaga took off “like a Mat out of hell.” Sprinting in a race that wasn’t a sprint,… Read More
World Champs Men’s 4×1 — U.S. Finishes, Doesn’t Win
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