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Sifan Hassan might have her hands full with Letesenbet Gidey even if she wasn't trying to triple. We preview the women's 10,000m. -
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Hassan may try for an unprecedented three women's distance golds, and if she pulls it off it would go down as perhaps the greatest feat in women's Olympic track & field history. Consider: only seven women have won three individual Olympic golds in their career. Hassan is trying to do that in the span of nine days. *MB: Wen's Olympic 5,000 Official Discussion Thread - Who has the edge Sifan Hassan or Gudaf Tsegay? -
Haile Gebrselassie, Kenenisa Bekele, and Mo Farah have split the last six Olympic 10k titles as Haile owned the '90s, Kenny owned the '00s, and Farah owned the '10s. Who is going to rule the 20s?Uganda has WR holder Joshua Cheptegei & Jacob Kiplimo who will be looking to earn their country's 1st Olympic distance medals on the track, Ethiopia has Selemon Barega & Yomif Kejelcha, and Kenya has a very fit Rodgers Kwemoi. *MB: Men's Olympic 10,000 Official Discussion Thread - Haile owned the 90s, Bekele the 00s, Farah the 10s. Who will rule the 20s? -
Emily Sisson showed she was a level above everyone else as she won her first USA track title and made her first Olympic team, joined by Karissa Schweizer and Alicia Monson. -
Reminder, the race gets underway at 10 am Pacific (1 ET). Will it be a BTC sweep? Can Sara Hall shock the world and make an Olympic team at 38? Does new US citizen Weini Kelalti have a chance? -
BTC's Lopez Lomong, Grant Fisher, and Woody Kincaid have the three fastest seed times, but Emmanuel Bor, Joe Klecker, Eric Jenkins, and Ben True are lurking. Do we predict a BTC sweep? -
For the second time in five years, an Englishman from Tulsa has won the NCAA 10,000 title. Imagine running 27:50 and not even scoring.- MB: Official 2021 NCAA T&F Championships Day 1 Thread
- MB: PATRICK MF DEVER DROPS THE HAMMER, MANTZ GOES HOME DEVASTATED
- MB: To all of you who have been saying the super spikes don't work, did you see that? 10 guys just broke the NCAA meet record. LOL.
- MB: 19-year old Charles Hicks 7th in 27:47 - how would Nico have done? Is that a WR for a 19-yr old non African?
- MB: Average age of 10,000 runners at NCAA?
- MB: Fair or Foul? Reed Brown DQd in 1500 at NCAAs (video)
- MB: New Oregon stadium
- MB: NCAA 1500m Final Isaac Basten will be top 3
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There was also an Australian record for Patrick Tiernan (27:22), impressive runs from new pros Weini Kelati (31:10) and Alicia Monson (31:10), and a second pb in 24 hours for Brit Sam Atkin (27:26). -
Sifan Hassan attacked Almaz Ayana's 29:17.45 world record as she went out in 14:37 before fading to a European record time of 29:36.67.
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Eight weeks after his 5k WR in Monaco, Joshua Cheptegei will try to break Kenenisa Bekele's 10k mark of 26:17.53 on Wednesday. Shadrack Kipchirchir will try to become just the third American under 27:00, while Letesenbet Gidey wants Tirunesh Dibaba's 14:11.15 5k WR.
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10 years ago today, Chris Solinsky shocked the world by running 26:59 in his 10,000-meter debut. Get the inside story and learn how the date of Solinsky's wedding played a key role in his preparations and why his victory led to a decade-long feud between coaches Alberto Salazar and Jerry Schumacher. -
Cheptegei held off a stiff challenge from Kejelcha on the final lap to get the 10,000m crown to go with his world xc crown. -
The women's 10,000 may have just been broken by the remarkable Sifan Hassan. *MB: Sifan MF Hassan just closed the 10k with a 3:59.09 1500!!! 4:17.15 last 1600!! *MB: Hassan could have paced Jenny Simpson to a 1500m SB at the end of that 10k -
Under Alberto Salazar's tutelage, Hassan has put together a year for the ages in 2019; can she end it with a gold medal at Worlds against Hellen Obiri? -
Lopez Lomong can win a US 1,500 title, a slow 10,000m title and now a fast 10,000m title. -
Molly Huddle is still the best 10,000m runner in America.