World Champs Men’s 200 — Lyles Joins Doublers Club
IN THE END, it was inevitable. The stadium announcers saved 2-time 200 champion Noah Lyles for last, and timing it… Read More
IN THE END, it was inevitable. The stadium announcers saved 2-time 200 champion Noah Lyles for last, and timing it… Read More
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 RECORDHOLDER Yulimar Rojas came into the meet as the unquestioned favorite to capture her fourth consecutive world title. In… Read More
THE SIGHT OF Femke Bol collapsing to the track just 5m from the line in the mixed 4×4 on the… Read More
THINGS WENT TOPSY-TURVY in the qualifying round. Favored defending champ Brooke Andersen — the yearly list leader at 263-0 (80.17)… Read More
THIS EVENT CHANGED radically from fairly predictable to wide open after injuries and other factors made hash of the formchart…. Read More
EMPEROR AURELIAN — called “Restorer of the World” — led the Roman Empire and its grand vision of world domination… Read More
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
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, August 19–27 — World Championships XIX returns the sport’s biggest track-only affair to European shores for the first… Read More
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
LAST YEAR IN EUGENE Miltiádis Tentóglou was the formchart favorite and the Greek sat comfortably in 1st heading into the… Read More
THE BEST CHAMPIONSHIP advice for Jakob Ingebrigtsen would be for him to do what he does best, run a pace… Read More
TWO MEN IN PURSUIT of a tough World Record had met at this distance at Doha19, in that meet’s most… Read More
IT’S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE Marileidy Paulino would have won the Budapest 400 regardless of who showed up. After all, her winning… Read More
TAKING THEIR LEAD from high jumpers Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Barshim at the Tokyo Olympics, Oregon22 winner Katie Moon of… Read More
LAMECHA GIRMA’S QUEST to unseat defending world and Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali as the king of the steeplechase fell… Read More
AS THE OLYMPIC gold medalist and ’16 World Indoor winner — as well as 2-time defending Euro champion — Gianmarco Tamberi… Read More
IT’S PROBABLY SAFE to say that no one, anywhere, would have predicted this result. There were three overwhelmingly dominant contenders…. Read More
NO SURPRISES. Faith Kipyegon, after 4 global gold medals at 1500 and 3 World Records in a stunning 50-day span,… Read More
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