The track world's eyes will be on Munich starting on Monday as Europe's biggest stars are out for continental glory.

• RRW: Stepping Down In Distance, Jake Wightman Hopes To Show His Range "Coming here to do the 800 is just something I'm actually excited to do. ... I've never actually done an 800 championship. I want to show I can be as competitive over eight as fifteen. I think if I were to do a fifteen here I wouldn't have come. So, 800 meters is just a real re-fresh. I'm like, I'm actually looking forward to racing again."
  *MB: Ingerbrigsten on the rivals absence: If you ask everyone else, it's completely idiotic
  *MB: Jake Wightmen Dodges Jakob…
  
• GB Sprinter Asha Philip Ruled Out Of Euro Champs 100m Due To Covid Positive Test
• Opposite Of Blue Collar: GB Marathoner Phil Sesemann Has Been Preparing For A Hot Euro Champs Marathon By Running In A Heat Chamber In Multiple Layers He's also used thermometer gastrointestinal pills to track his body temperature during sessions, a cryospa after runs and an altitude tent.
  *MB: European Marathon starts Monday AM
• Italy's Marcell Jacobs Given The Green Light To Chase The Euro 100m TItle In Munich His coach say his "workouts are promising."
• World Silver Medalist Femke Bol Wants To Win 400H/400 Double Gold At Euro Champs
• MB: Is Klosterhalfen race-fit enough to double in Munich?
• MB: European Championship stadium attendance

• Jakob Ingebrigtsen Launching Another 1500/5000 Double Bid At Munich 2022 He already won this double as a 17-year-old at the 2018 European Champs. But unfortunately there will be no rematch with Jake Wightman as Wightman is doing the 800m at Euros.
• Keely Hodgkinson And Laura Muir Lead British Distance Charge At Euro Champs Hodgkinson will be looking to win gold after finishing runner-up in her last three major championships (Olympics, Worlds, Commonwealths).
• Laura Muir Going For Medal Treble At European Champs Muir will be looking to medal at all three championships after winning 1500m bronze at Worlds and 1500m gold/800m bronze at Commonwealths.
• Germany's Olympic And World Long Jump Champ Malaika Mihambo Could Be Vulnerable At Euros After Getting COVID She caught it after Worlds and says she missed 10 days of training.
• GB Sprinter Adam Gemili Pulls Out Of Euro Champs He hasn't yet given a reason. He went out in the 200m semis at the Commonwealth Games.
• Sandra Perkovic Primed To Go For A Sixth European Discus Title In Munich Starts August 15th.

Fast wins from Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (10.67, +1.3) and Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (12.27, +2.4) turned heads as did Erriyon Knighton getting his first European win in a 19.88 meet record (+0.8). *World Athletics Recap

• Erriyon Knighton's 1st European race is a big success. 19.88 MR in Hungary!
• SAFP 10.67 AGAIN in Hungary -- fourth 10.67 this year
• McLaughlin: 51.67 FTW
• Sydney McLaughlin - WORLD RECORD Attempt - Can she break 50 in the 400h?

• From 4:19 in college to 4:03 at age 29 with a full-time job: Eleanor Fulton's patience is paying off Who says you need to be a full-time pro to kick ass?
• Allyson Felix Lost Her Last Race On Sunday At "The Allyson Felix Race For Change" It was a 100m street race set up for Felix in LA and she ran 11.66, losing to Ashley Henderson's 11.46.
• RIP: 1948 1500m Olympian Don Gehrmann, 94
• Distance Highlights From Japan National High School Track and Field Championships
• French Culture Minister Confident Notre Dame Cathedral Will Reopen Before Paris 2024 It closed after being badly damaged in a 2019 fire.

8 years ago, "she was the young poster girl of the Glasgow Games in 2014, only to be devastatingly tripped coming into the home straight when in contention and to fall away to 11th."
*Ciara Mageean Wins 1500m Silver For Ireland

• MB: Abbey Caldwell makes the Aussie selectors look like fools - Bronze in 1500 at CGs!! Aussie selectors, please take a look at the picture above and notice who's on the medal stand - the woman you left off your Worlds team. Well done.
• MB: Wycliffe Kinyamal repeats as 800m CG Champion 
• Athletics Weekly: English Relay Success Delights Home Crowd Gold for the men's 4x100 and silver for the women behind Nigeria.
• Matthew Hudson-Smith stunned by Zambian’s Muzala Samukonga in 400 final As a result, a grand total of 0 British men won golds on the track at a home CGs.
• Alastair Chalmers Creates Athletics History With 400H Bronze For Guernsey The UK champ won the first track medal for the English Channel island, Guernsey.
• World Athletics: NZ's Tom Walsh Retains Commonwealth Shot Put Title

• The Guardian: Ollie Hoare Wins Epic Commonwealth Games 1500m Final For Australia Jake Wightman made a bid for victory, but was passed by Timothy Cheruiyot who then just lost out to a late charging Hoare. Hoare won in a Games record of 3:30.12, .09 ahead of Cheruiyot and .41 ahead of Wightman.
• Athletics Weekly: Mary Moraa Wins 800m Gold With Fartlek-Style Tatics 1:57:07 to beat Keely Hodgkinson's 1:57.40 while Laura Muir just edged Natoya Goule for bronze in 1:57.87.
• MB: Jacob Kiplimo Completes The 5k/10k Double Kiplimo ran his last mile in 4:00 to win a three-way sprint for gold in 13:08.08 to beat out Kenyans Nicholas Kimeli (13:08.19) and Jacob Krop (13:08.48).
• Elaine Thompson-Herah Completes CWG Sprint Double With 200m Gold She ran 22.02 to dominate over Favour Ofili (22.51). Trinidad and Tobago's Jereem Richards won the men's race in 19.80 over England's Zharnel Hughes (20.12).
• Jake Wightman "Relieved" To Win 1500m Bronze Wightman said, "I gave it a go to win it, but I didn't have it. I'm just relieved to get something for Scotland because one of us deserved to be on the podium and I'm lucky to be the one to be on it."
• BBC: England's Matt Hudson-Smith Denied Gold By Zambia's Muzala Samukonga In Dramatic 400m Finish Hudson-Smith had a decent lead, but tied up at the end losing 44.66 to 44.81.
• Australian Kurtis Marschall Beats English Duo To Pole Vault Gold With 5.70m
• Eilish McColgan To Carry Scotland Flag At Closing Ceremony
  

• Kenya's Jackline Chepkoech Wins Commonwealth Steeple In 9:15.68
• Decathlon Comes Down To The Final Event As Grenada's Lindon Victor Holds Off 2-3 Australian Charge Aussie Daniel Golubovic won the 1500m, but needed to beat Victor by ~23-seconds to steal the gold and only managed to beat him by about 21.
• Laura Muir Sets Sights On Elusive Commonwealth Games Medal After Reaching 1500m Final She had to qualify while also saving energy for Saturday's 800m final. Muir said, “I went to the front and slowed down a wee bit and I got away with it for a while but I knew they would come round at some point. I latched on and did as minimum as possible to save the legs for tomorrow.”
• England's Former NFLer Lawrence Okoye Takes Commonwealth Games Discus Silver Australia's Matthew Denny won the gold.
• Birmingham May Bid To Host The Olympics After The Commonwealth Game
  

Which Newbury Park stud does Brosnan compare to Galen Rupp, who does he think can win an NCAA 1500 title and who will be the best pro?

• MB: According to Sean Brosnan, Lex and Leo Young are in 13:20 5k shape.
• MB: Sean Brosnan Leaving Newbury Park for UCLA!!!
• 2020 Sean Brosnan Podcast

• Dyestat: "I'm ready to roll my sleeves up and get to work,"
• MB: Press shy Jerry Schumacher does full introductory press conference at Oregon (video highlights)

MB: Million dollar man? Mike Holloway signs contract extension with Florida that will keep him through 2032. He made 734k last year.

We paid one of the top sports scientists in the world to analyze the Shelby Houlihan doping case and CAS ruling. He has 2 pieces for us, the piece above is an opinion piece where he answers our questions. In a 2nd more technical piece, Ross goes through the CAS decision step by step and outlines in clear terms exactly what Houlihan argued and why he thinks CAS ultimately (correctly) ruled against her.

• Discussion: Sports Scientist Ross Tucker breaks down the Shelby Houlihan case for us