In our weekly recap, we wonder if it's fair USADA went out of its way to nail Alberto Salazar, take a closer look at a couple of sprinters who improved massively in 2021, wonder if steroid usage contributed to the death of world record holder Yuriy Sedykh and introduce you to an American who ran 2:13 in the marathon in a race where most of the race was well over 5,000 feet of altitude. 

• Karsten Warholm Ends His Season By Equaling The 300m World Lead With 32.49 In Norway
• Serbia 17-Year-Old Adriana Vilagos Wins JenJavelin Festival In Germany With 61.65m
• Italy's Olympic 4x100m Champion Filippo Tortu Ran A European Leading 200m With 20.11 At The Kip Keino Classic (3rd Place)
• AW Extensive Weekly Round-Up
• Recap: Records Fall At USATF Masters 12k Championships

• T&F News 2021 XC Preview - Men's Top 10 Individuals Conner Mantz, Cooper Teare and Nico Young top their list.
• T&F News NCAA Preview - Men's Top 10 Teams They have NAU, Notre Dame and BYU ranked 1-3.
• T&F News NCAA XC Preview - Women's Top 10 Teams BYU, NC State and New Mexico top their list.
• #6 Ranked Arkansas Women Dominate Missouri Southern Stampede With 38-Points
• Oklahoma State's Isai Rodriguez And BYU's Whittni Orgon Named NCAA Athletes Of The Week Rodriguez ran 23:05 at the Cowboy Jamboree to break Luis Grijalva's course record at the OSU home course. Orton beat out a star-studded field to win the FSU Open.
• Updated Men's Regional XC Rankings
• Updated Women's Regional XC Rankings
• DyeStat: York Girls, Sandburg Boys Dominate Team Titles At Richard Spring Classic

• Amedework Walelegn (59:10) And Tsehay Gemechu (65:08) Win Copenhagen Half-Marathon
• Results: Futsum Zienasellasie (29:52.09) And Erika Kemp (32:17.91) Win Cow Harbor 10k
• Clement Langat Kiprono (2:08:23) And Peris Lagat Cherono (2:29:29) Make It A Kenyan Double At The Rome Marathon
• Emmanuel Moi Maru (42:14) And Joyce Chepkemoi (47:24) Win Valencia 15k

• Reimi Yoshimura (9:41.43 Steeple) And Riku Ito (17.00m Triple Jump) Break Japan Collegiate Records On Last Day Of National University Track Championships
• Fukuoka Women Break 4x100 Collegiate Record (44.51) On Second Day Of Japan College Champs
• Yuka Suzuki Breaks 10,000m Meet Record With 32:04.58 At Japan National University Track Champs Kenya's James Bunuka won the men's race in 27:58.60.

• Vin Lananna signs contract extension with UVA through 2026
• Athing Mu named as finalist for James E. Sullivan Award It may be hard to win the top amateur athletic award when she won Olympic gold as a pro, but she was incredible as an amateur.
• Bahamas North: Coach Rolando ‘Lonnie’ Greene is loading the University of Kentucky up with Bahamian talent
• Japanese National University Track and Field Championships Preview National record holders s Shunsuke Izumiya and Ryuji Miura are competing.

• Good Q&A With Nell Rojas After Her USATF 10 Mile Championship Win "For some reason winning is scary. And losing is scary. But in some situations winning is almost scarier, you know, because it’s uncomfortable. Like, you’ve never been there, you’re not sure if you belong there."
• Guilty: Kenya's sports minister Hassan Wario and the 2016 Olympic team leader Stephen arap Soi are convicted of embezzling millions of shillings during the Rio Games. Wario was one of six Kenyan officials charged with abuse of office and the misappropriation of 55 million shillings ($545,000) during the Rio Olympics.
• Russia's still being Russia: WADA warns Russia not to interfere in anti-doping work "The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) warned Russia not to interfere in drug-testing in the country and asked Wednesday that a year-old vacancy at the top of the national anti-doping body be filled."
• Podium: The anatomy of a perfect marathon taper
• Shericka Jackson describes 2021 as 'incredible journey'

Chumbawamba guitarist has written a book on Gary Devine, the punk rocker fell running champion Purchase here.

Interesting Read Meet Syria's only Olympic gold medallist and an inspiration to Arab women, Ghada Shouaa (1996 heptathlon) She famously kissed and hugged JJK and Bob Kersee in a great sign of sportsmanship in Atlanta when JJK pulled out injured.

Track & Field News lists all 11 of the Diamond League winners in history for every event Christian Taylor and Renaud Lavillenie lead the way with 7 but Timothy Cheruiyot and Mariya Lasitskene have won 4 in a row.

69 minute half marathoner Glenrose Xaba is now being coached by Caster Semenya She's also got a 5k pb of 15:38.

Steve Prefontaine's 1972 NCAA xc bib up for auction. The starting big is $5,000.

Studies: To increase your chances of a long life, wtake at least 7,000 steps a day or jog, play tennis, cycle swim, etc. for more than 2.5 hours per week,

Have Achilles pain? Try running down a hill...backward 12 of 14 runners (85.7 per cent) who did it improved, which makes sense as eccentric loading is a common prescribed exercise.

• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Closes Her Season With 10.78 Victory In Switzerland This was SAFP's 13th straight sub-11 100m. Natoya Goule won the 800m in 1:58.20.
• AW Weekly Round-Up: Andy Butchart Wins City Of Stirling 10k In 29:06 The Norwegian Championships were also this weekend and Jakob Ingebrigtsen won the 1500m in 3:33.26.
  
• The Netherlands' Femke Bol Ends Her Season With A 54.01 400H Win In Switzerland She came in ahead of her training partner and mentor, European champion Lea Sprunger, who ran the last race of her career with 54.53 in 2nd.
• USA’s Kendell Williams And Germany’s Kai Kazmirek Win Overall World Athletics Combined Events Challenge Series Winning the series gives each of these athletes a wildcard entry to next year's World Championships.