A Bold Way To Go For Gold
THAT TOKYO MOVE. Gutsy? Daring? Courageous? Whatever you call it, the surge Courtney Frerichs threw down about halfway into the… Read More
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Brussels DL — Readying For Next Week’s Finale
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, September 03 — The Diamond League rolled into its last pre-Final gathering of the year at the 45th… Read More
Best All-Time Adjusted 100-Meter Performances — Women
IN A 10-DAY SPAN THIS SUMMER, Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah produced the two fastest “basic” women’s 100s ever based on our… Read More
All-Time Men’s 100/200/400 Combined Scoring
BEING WORLD-CLASS in both the 100 & 200 or both the 200 & 400 is tough enough, but how about… Read More
FROM THE EDITOR — Watching The Games From Afar
LIKE JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER FAN on the planet, I did my watching of the Tokyo “2020” action at home…. Read More
Paris DL — The Schedule Gets Crowded
PARIS, FRANCE, August 28 — Wrapping up a rush of three post-Tokyo Diamond League meets inside 8 days, the return… Read More
Valarie Allman II — Polishing That Technique
EVEN A THROWS DILETTANTE can’t have failed to notice while watching Valarie Allman in the ring that the style with… Read More
Valarie Allman Part I — Processing That Gold Medal
RAIN POURED DOWN in sheets, imposing a competition delay of nearly an hour on the Tokyo Olympics women’s discus final…. Read More
Lausanne DL — SAFP’s Turn To Shine
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, August 26 — On an evening where cool winds challenged athletes and unusually packed stands inspired them, the… Read More
World Junior Championships — Sasha Zhoya One Hot Hurdler
KASARANI, KENYA, August 18-22 — No athlete created a bigger stir at the World Junior (U20) Championships than French hurdler… Read More
Pre Diamond League Women — A 100 For The Ages
EUGENE, OREGON, August 21 — The fastest women’s 100 ever? We think so, as the promised sprint showdown at the… Read More
Pre Diamond League Men — Lyles Responds To The Crowd
EUGENE, OREGON, August 21 — Turns out the much-ballyhooed Prefontaine Classic was worth all that ballyhoo, as the first Diamond… Read More
Pre Classic Friday — Thrilling Women’s Distances
EUGENE, OREGON, August 20 — Even Wonder Woman must feel fatigue once in a while and that goes too for… Read More
All-Time Prefontaine Classic Sub-4 Mile List
The Pre Classic’s Bowerman Mile continues to be the greatest race in the United States. No other American meet has… Read More
Tokyo Olympics Rewrote By-Lane World Records
THIS COMPILATION lists the best performance known to have been achieved in each lane of the track in each of… Read More
Plenty Of Hoops For Tokyo Journalists To Jump Through
WHEN I SAW THE E-MAIL I panicked, half-expecting Japan’s COVID police to pounce, drag me off to a dreaded quarantine… Read More
Olympic Men’s Decathlon — Another Member For The 9000 Club
MAKING UP FOR WHAT HE VIEWED as a disappointing bronze in Rio, Damian Warner crossed the 1500 line with a… Read More
Olympic Women’s High Jump — A Date With Destiny Realized
5 YEARS AGO reigning world champion Mariya Lasitskene was denied the opportunity to compete in Rio because of the (still… Read More
Olympic Men’s 4 x 400 — Finishing On A Positive Note
AFTER 8 DAYS OF DROUGHT, the United States men finally won a gold on the track. It was a terrific… Read More
Olympic Women’s 4 x 400: A Golden Quartet
AFTER MUCH TONGUE WAGGING about who should/must/would comprise the foursome for the final, the U.S. put a golden quartet of… Read More
