• World Para Athletics Championships In Japan Postponed Until 2024 Due To Covid The championships were already pushed back until 2022 from 2020. Now they're delayed another two years.
• Two More 2022 Elite Japan Marathons Canceled Due To COVID (Beppu-Oita And Nobeoka) Both were scheduled for the first half of February.
• February 20th Kitakyushu Marathon Canceled Due To "Rapid Spread Of Omicron"
• Feb. 20th Shonan International Marathon Canceled Due To COVID

• RIP: Kenya's 1st national athletics coach - John Velzian - dies at age 94 The Brit moved to Kenya before independence in 1955 and never left.
  *MB: Legendary Kenyan athletics coach John Velzian dies at 94 
• Former world discus record-holder Rink Babka, who claimed Olympic silver in 1960, has died at the age of 85.

What a week. Athing Mu returned to action as did Christian Coleman. And the ex-HOKA athletes that finally got super shoes on their feet ran huge pbs in Houston as well. Would Stephanie Bruce and/or Kellyn Taylor be Olympians if they had the shoes?

• Patrick Tiernan opens up on 'bittersweet' departure from OTC but is pumped to have joined the Puma Elite "It’s disappointing [Nike didn't make me an offer] because Mark [Rowland] and I were just getting started. The whole staff and team is really special to me — we had a great thing going," said Tiernan whose fiance Angel Piccirillo is part of the OTC.  Tiernan is leaving her and the dog behind as he relocates to train in North Carolina with Alistair Cragg's new group.
  *Neil Gourley also got tired of Nike resigning him to the OTC and has left for Puma
• MB: World Athletics' scoring tables have been updated for 2022 - long distance marks point values reduced due to super shoes Gideys hm WR went from 1326 to 1281 while Kipchoge's marathon WR went from 1316 to 1303.
• Sara Hall and Keira D'Amato's record runs get NY Times coverage And Daily Mail as well.
• Men's 800 at Millrose will be stacked with Hoppel, Jewett, Saruni, C. Hunter, and others; Donavan Brazier to run 400
• Loaded high school fields coming together For Millrose Games
• 2017 1500 World champ Elijah Manangoi competed for 1st time since ban two weeks ago and says he's learned his lesson

• Good Read: World Athletics: "What IT Takes To Become A Kenyan Distance Champion" The author visits Eliud Kipchoge's training camp and analyzes the factors that lead to Kenyan distance dominance. Marc Roig, a 2:18 Spanish marathoner who moved to Kenya and works as a coach/physio for the NN Running teamsaid this of life in Kenya: “When I take my kids to school, I feel ashamed saying I am a runner as many of the dads there have 2:05 marathon PBs. There is even a mother at the school who has a PB similar to mine!"
• Athletics Illustrated Q&A With Rory Linkletter Who Broke The Canadian Half-Marathon Record At Houston With 61:08
• MB: Ben Flanagan Signs With On; No Official Word On A Training Group *Instagram post
• Kyoto Wins 2nd-Straight National Women's Ekiden
• One For Our British Visitors: What Are The Fastest And Slowest Parkruns In The UK?