The inaugural women's-only meet is on Thursday in New York and features four Olympic champions from Paris (Gabby Thomas, Faith Kipyegon, Masai Russell, Marileidy Paulino) in its six events as well walk-out songs and a performance by rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
Athlos, the women's only track meet with $100k in prize money per event, and Megan Thee Stallion, as the feature entertainer is Thursday in NYC. We break it down and also preview the NCAA XC season.
Oregon finished in the top 10 a year ago under Shalane Flanagan and Jerry Schumacher and will look to improve in '24. Plus meet the new NCAA superstar, who earned bronze in the U20 race at World XC and is the sister of a former WR holder. And how about some love for Lipscomb - which was top 10 last year with no transfers and no foreigners?
Oklahoma State was historically great in 2023, can they repeat in 2024? How will NAU fare in Mike Smith's final year as coach? Is this Arkansas' best team since the glory years? Plus BYU is super deep thanks in part to an 8th-year senior.
It's time to get back into cross country mode. With young American stars Graham Blanks and Parker Wolfe returning to the NCAA, the 2024 XC season should be a great one.
Edris won in 44:51 putting him tied for #8 on the world all-time list and 27 seconds clear of three-time world 10,000m champion Cheptegei. Ethiopia's Asayech Ayichew won the women's race in 51:15.
Marathon Trials 4th placer McClain won in 31:40 over Natosha Rogers (32:00) while Simbassa ran 28:18 to beat out Hillary Bor (28:24).
We're introducing the NCAA performer of week and since September is all about getting your feet wet in XC we're combining the "preseason" action so far which has been highlighted by performances by some new Kenyan men in the NCAA ranks.
The CBA boys' win streak turns 50 years old today. They haven't lost a dual meet since 1973.
The 2024 Diamond League season came to an end. Jakob got the win in the 1500, but we're more interested in breaking down his half marathon debut. Sydney McLaughlin made a rare Diamond League appearance. And we delve into the crazy fast times on the track in 2024.
Plus a big win streaks get snapped while others get extended. And Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone gets paid despite avoiding the Diamond League like the plague while Grant Holloway doesn't despite running it all the time.
Kenya's Isaia Lasoi was a close third in 58:10. There was a lot of excitement around Jakob Ingebrigtsen's half-marathon debut, but after going through 10k in 27:27 (a Norwegian national record and on pace for 57:54) he pulled up and stopped running. He continued on (with a couple more stops) to finish in 63:13. World half silver medalist Margaret Kipkemboi won the women's race in 65:11 over Judy Kemboi (65:43).
We recap the end of the 2024 Diamond League season.
We give you the highlights from day 1 of the Diamond League final where Georgia Bell's amazing year continued, SML ran faster than Paulino in the 400 and Ackeem Blake pulled off an upset in men's 100.
The race is at 3:30 am ET. You can watch it live.
*MB: Ingebrigtsen says he's not there for WR, plans to run first mile with leaders and re-evaluate.
Hoare said he spoke with Ingebrigtsen about GST while cooling down in Zurich and that Ingebrigtsen said he was open to racing on the series but likely not in the 800/1500 group and that he did not like having to go race in the USA.
When asked at the Brussels pre-meet press conference if he'd be making his half marathon debut on Sunday, Ingebrigtsen didn't confirm or deny he'd be in Copenhagen.
At the start of 2024, only five men had ever broken 1:42. Five have done it in 2024 alone, and David Rudisha's 1:40.91 world record looks poised to fall. What is going on? Jonathan Gault interviews coaches and scientists from all over the world and unveils Project 99 - the quest for the first sub-1:40 800 in history.
We'll get Ingebrigtsen v Hocker v Nuguse in the 1500 for the last time in 2024. Plus what to make of Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone's 200/400 double and Sha'Carri vs Alfred in the 100m.
A tailwind helped Kerr and Schweizer to their fast times but they destroyed the competition.
THOUGHTSLEADER breaks down the post-race comments from Kerr on Jakob and Grand Slam Track, Hoppel's hope to get elevated to bronze if Sedjati is popped for drugs, Emma Coburn's return to racing, Hobbs Kessler and more.
Arop missed the 25-year-old record of 2:11.96, but still set a North American record. Other distance winners included Kenya' s Leonard Bett (steeple - 8:06.33), Kenya’s Nelly Chepchirchir (800m - 1:57.00), Italy’s Sintayehu Vissa (1500 - 3:58.33) and Belgium’s Isaac Kimeli over Cooper Teare in the 2000m (4:54.29 to 4:55.42). In non-distance action Ryan Crouser had his bet throw of the season with a 22.93m victory and Erriyon Knighton took the 200m in 19.93.
Yared Nuguse passed Jakob Ingebrigtsen late to win the 1500 in 3:29.21 as Sha’Carri Richardson (10.84) topped Olympic champ Julien Alfred (10.88) in the 100 and Grant Holloway broke 13 in the 110 hurdles for the 12th time. *Full Results
Mondo got off to a great start and kept a narrow lead throughout.
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The eldest Ingebrigtsen son has gone public to Norway's largest newspaper Aftenposten with some of the details of the alleged abuse Gjert inflicted on his children. Even though the statute of limitations has passed on many of the alleged crimes, Kristoffer wants the world to know what happened as he feels like Gjert has been "allowed to set the terms" of their separation. "It's still good that people know. When Gjert is hyped up as a God in all directions, as he was for a while, he in some ways only gets worse."
According to multiple sources, Diamond League CEO Petr Stastny announced today at the technical meeting for the Weltklasse Zurich meet that Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone will not be allowed to compete in the two Diamond League finals next week as she's not eligible since she didn't compete in any regular season DL meets. Meet organizers are contemplating having her run in the pre-program presumably against less-than-stellar competition.
An unsponsored product engineer at HOKA took down UTMB over the weekend, Addy Wiley broke the American 1000m record, and this is the year of the women's 1500.
The 49-year-old has been stripped of the silver medal she won in the women's 2012 Olympic 1500m (a race from which 6 of the top 9 finishers have received doping bans). Tomashova initially finished 4th in that race, but was upgraded to silver when the Turkish runners who finished 1-2 failed drug tests. With Tomashova's ban, Shannon Rowbury (who initially finished 6th) moves up to third.
*MB: Rowbury now an Olympic medalist !?!?
*MB: A 10 year ban for the "dirtiest race in history"
In this excellent Q&A with Sarah Lorge Butler, Smith talks about why he's leaving the NCAA, how he thinks his pros did at the Paris Olympics and reveals that Galen Rupp has had a major surgery.
Bor won in 58:09, breaking Matt Tegenkamp's championship record of 58:30 from 2012 and said he want to break Ryan Hall's 59:43 half-marathon record in Valencia. Nathan Martin was 2nd in 58:26 while D'Amato won in 1:06:25 over Jess McClain (1:06:50).
Cheptegei suffered burns on more than 75% of her body when her boyfriend doused her in gasoline and set her on fire. The two were apparently arguing over a piece of land Cheptegei bought. Cheptegei finished 44th in the marathon in Paris and won gold at the World Mountain and Trail Championships in 2022.
She broke the previous mark of 1:21.63 set by Caster Semenya in 2017. Sam Kendricks won the PV with 6.01m, Grant Holloway the 110H in 13.14.
Giles beat the mark of 3:54.6 set earlier this year (still pending ratification) by Olympic 800m champ Emmanuel Wanyonyi. Nuguse was second place in 3:51.9.
*MB: Road Mile World Record - Elliot Giles 3:51.3
She won the race in 2:31.49, breaking the 25-year-old American record of 2:31.80 set by Regina Jacobs.
*MB: How appropriate: Suspect Addy Wiley - who is deeply linked to Nick/Lauren Johnson - breaks doper Regina Jacobs US 1k record *Results
Before Halvorsen's victory in the 3000, no non-African-born man had ever won a flat distance race at World U20s. After Spain's Jon Azkueta won gold in the 2k steeple in the first World Jrs in 1986, an African-born man had won 73 straight men's distance events.
The SEC indoor mile and outdoor 1500 champ has tested positive for EPO. We'd never seen an Indian mid-d runner with such an amazing kick and now it all appears to good to be true.
Letsile Tebogo celebrated early and still ran 9.87 to win the 100 as Winfred Yavi ran 8:44.39 to miss the women’s steeple world record by .07. *Full results *WA Full meet recap
She broke the 14-year-old record by Genzebe Dibaba by more than 28 seconds and dominated the race, lapping most of the field. Kenya’s Andrew Kiptoo Alamisi won a tight men's race in a sprint finish with 13:41.
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Smith won five NCAA XC titles from 2017-22 but will leave the school at the end of the 2024-25 school year.
Ingebrigtsen took more than three seconds off Komen's 7:20.67, which had stood for nearly 28 years. Berihu Aregawi ran 7:21.28 (#3 all-time) while Grant Fisher was last in 7:49.79. *Full meet results *Full meet recap by WA
Rooks stunned the world by nearly winning the gold medal in the steeple at the Olympics. Up next on Sunday is his first Diamond League meet ever (and only one expected this year).
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Ingebrigtsen crushed Hocker over the final 200 to win in 3:27.83 as Americans Hocker (3:29.85) and Hobbs Kessler (3:30.47) finished 2nd and 3rd.
Olympic champ Emmanuel Wanyonyi ran 1:41.11 in the 800 to move into a tie for #2 on the all-time list and scare David Rudisha's world record. Rasheed Broadbell handed Grant Holloway his first defeat of 2024 and US 800 champ Nia Akins, who competed in a logoless kit in Lausanne, has officially left the Brooks Beasts. We broke down Lausanne down right after the meet, click on the video to hear LRC's post-meet analysis.
If you missed the action from Thursday's Athletissima Lausanne Diamond League meet, you can catch up by watching the major events here.
We break down the return of the Diamond League, Noah Lyles calling it a season, and are joined by Mike Scannell, the coach of Grant Fisher.
Conner Mantz & Clayton Young lead the US men's field, while Hellen Obiri will defend her women's title. Is the title of World #1 at stake in the men's race?
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The Olympics produce the most incredible highs and lows. Which athletes overachieved and overachieved in the Paris track and field action?
Almost no one who emerged from the repechage made the final in Paris. World Athletics president Seb Coe admits, "It was an IOC creation. It wasn’t something that we chose ourselves."
One final look back at Paris, a look ahead to LA and we pay respects to Usain Bolt's 100m world record and ponder how Tyreek Hill could do in a race vs Noah Lyles.
MB: New docuseries on Ingebrigtsens coming out on Amazon Prime Video on Sept. 20 - Born To Run You can watch the trailer above.
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For the first time since 2014, neither Eliud Kipchoge or Kenenisa Bekele will be in the men's race as they are getting old and recovering from the Olympics so new stars will shine. Can what former half marathon WR holder Kibiwott Kandie get the job done? What about the fastest debutant in history Tigist Ketema for the women?
*MB: 2024 BMW Berlin Marathon Elite Fields Released - And for the first time since 2014, neither Kipchoge or Bekele will be there
ASICS Falmouth Road Race elite fields released - Ben Flanagan, Jake Riley, John Korir, Emma Bates, Edna Kiplagat, and Everlyn Kemboi are in it The race is Sunday.
Was this the best Olympic track & field competition ever? Why did the US men run so well? Plus the greatest unanswered questions from Paris 2024 and why Jakob Ingebrigtsen should not abandon the 1500m.
A lot to talk about on this week's LRC podcast. We couldn't get to it all so join the Supporters Club to get Friday's bonus podcast.
SML did it again with WR #6, running 50.37 to win the 400 hurdles as Femke Bol got bronze. Letsile Tebogo ripped a 19.46 for 200m gold as a COVID-stricken Noah Lyles was 3rd.
Your latest American stars share their insights.
Keira D'Amato, the new American record holder in the marathon, was joined by Deena Kastor, who held the record for 15 years.
Sisson was the guest on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast after she became the first American to go sub 67 in the half marathon on a record-eligible course. Podcast highlights above. Full pod here.
Woody Kincaid joined us after he broke the American record indoors at 5000. He talks above why he left the Bowerman Track Club. Podcast highlights and link to full podcast here.
Coogan's New Balance Boston team had 3 Olympians in 2021 and 2022 could be the biggest year yet for the program with 2 new additions and the TRACK at New Balance coming on March 1st.
Danny Mackey has taken the Brooks Beasts from an unproven club to the Olympic podium in its first decade.
Dathan Ritzenhein is the first of the top pro coaches to sit down and talk about his club heading into the 2022 campaign.
