September-October 2020

A SPRINTER MOVING FAST in her first full pro season at the tender age of 20, Sha’Carri Richardson has mixed… Read More

IT WAS A LITTLE OVER 4 years ago that Sean McGorty stood on the starting line of the Olympic Trials… Read More

CHORZÓW, POLAND, September 06—Johannes Vetter came to the Skolimowska Memorial very much in charge of the yearly javelin list, owning… Read More

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, September 04—King Baudouin Stadium was nearly empty, of course, but not because Mo Farah’s attack on Haile Gebrselassie’s… Read More

FIRST YOU PLAY SOCCER. Then you start running, become a prep superstar. The next step, of course, is you win… Read More

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, September 02—Sam Kendricks and Mondo Duplantis have got to keep meeting like this. Eleven months post-Doha in a… Read More

DES MOINES, IOWA, August 25 & 29—Nobody told us we’d see days like this. With apologies to the late John… Read More

YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT, few other American 5000 runners are as dependable as Ben True. Since ’11, the Maine… Read More

IT WAS JUST OVER 4 years ago that Drew Hunter—a high school superstar with multiple sub-4:00s to his credit—shocked the… Read More

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, August 23—On a warm and sunny Scandinavian summer afternoon in which Swedes provided plenty to cheer about at… Read More

SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁR, HUNGARY, August 19—Her time at the Gyulai Memorial might not have screamed “headline material!” but the names Lynna Irby… Read More

IN OUR SPORT, infinitesimal fractions of seconds can be cruel. Even for those athletes whose astounding performances are measured with… Read More

ONE MIGHT THINK that running 12:58.10 last September, in what we all thought would be the autumn before the Olympic… Read More

TOMMIE SMITH—John Carlos—Harry Edwards—The Olympic Project For Human Rights. This ground has been covered in print and on the screen… Read More

FONTVIEILLE, MONACO, AUGUST 20—The 2020 outdoor season finally got off to a real start at the Herculis Diamond League meeting…. Read More

IF ASKED what was the single greatest day of track & field to have taken place on American soil, many… Read More

FLYING HIGHER THAN EVER at age 29, Ohio native Katie Nageotte has, it seems, finally unlocked the key to high… Read More

“I’M FEELING GREAT. I feel like I’m finally starting to come back down to earth,” says Valarie Allman. The 25-year-old… Read More