Only four Americans have run faster than the 2:06:39 pb Talbi, a 2024 Olympian for Morocco, ran to win last year's Houston Marathon.
Archived Homepage For May 22, 2025
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Interesting distance links
- MB: Wake commit Corbin Coombs had quite the weekend - He ran an 8:50 3200 at altitude and took down NXN champ Charlie Vause 3 times (800, 1600, 3200) at New Mexico state meet Coombs, won 3 state titles and set meet records in the 800 and 3,200 (8:50.22), 1,600 (4;13.76) and 800 (1:55.33)
- MB: Oregon men won Big 10s in large part due to the fact their distance guys scored a staggering 68 points - Where are the Jerry S haters now? They scored 23 in the 10,000 alone thank as they went 2-3-5-6-8.
- MB: Athing Mu to run 1500 at Sound Running Track Fest on Saturday - But she's in the 3rd section The bizarre season for the 2021 Olympic champ gets even more bizarre and we still have no explanation from her or her team.
- Japan's half-marathon NR holder Tomoki Ota dislocated his shoulder at the Golden Grand Prix when he was taken out by Japanese 10,000 NR holder Kazuya Shiojiri
- South Carolina HSer Kevin Burroughs wins state titles in 800 (1:49.64 state record), 1600 (4:18.18) and javelin (184-4) to power team to title
- Five Questions ahead of Rabat DL which features Beatrice Chebet, Femke Bol in her outdoor debut & Erriyon Knighton vs Tebogo
- Eilish McColgan has had a tough time recovering from her marathon debut "It has taken me a good three weeks," she said on BBC Radio Scotland when asked about her recovery. "First week was a real struggle - walking down and up stairs, not the easiest."
- Two-time world indoor 1500m champ Samuel Tefera has signed with On
Suspicious Runners In the News
- British influencer William Goodge sets news trans-Australia record—or did he? Many have doubts about the run's legitimacy He allegedly ran the width of Australia in 35 days when the previous record was 39 but many have their doubts. Of course, the LRC thread on the run is a key place to compile the doubt and reminds many of the Robert Young fiasco in 2016.
*MB: Official William Goodge TransAus World Record Thread, Perth to Sydney, 35 days, 68.5 miles a day - Mo Katir is appealing his tampering suspension He got 2 years for 3 whereabout failures and then an extra two years for tampering. What's interesting is Katir isn't denying that he modified a plan ticket reservation date. He just says it shouldn't result in a ban.
- WADA loses its appeal to CAS in Norah Jeruto case - She officially will never be banned for ABP violations While the 2022 world steeple champ has been clearned, it may be worth nothing she hasn't come within 15 seconds of her 8:53.02 pb since she was charged.
On The Boards
On The Boards
Non distance news
- Letsile Tebogo is pleased to knock off Jamaican and US sprinters and hopes more from Africa follow him: ‘I dream of an all-African lineup at the Olympics one day”
- Florida St. freshman footballer Micahi Danzy, who ran 44.38 at ACCs at age 19, kept his strategy simple “My coach said kick it at the Demons’ logo, so I just listened to what my coach said,”
- Double Olympic champ Shaunae Miller-Uibo targeting June return with low-key race
- Arizona track and field/cross country coach Fred Harvey to retire after 38 years at Arizona He's been the head coach for the last 23. Under Harvey, Arizona’s track and cross country programs produced 11 individual national champions, 160 All-Americans and 14 Olympians but never won a conference team title.
Our Weekly Recap
We break down the NCAA power conference action for you like no one else. Along the way, we tell you why Parker Wolfe ran 13:13 at ACCs and give some props to Arkansas' Paityn Noe who didn't let a brutal mid-race fall derail her. Plus we analyze Sha'Carri Richardson's 2025 debut and Jakob Ingebrigtsen's injury.
More From Conference Champs Weekend
- Arkansas' Ben Shearer Finished Runner-Up In The SEC 5000m After Falling And Getting Trampled Shearer had blood running down his face and holes in the back of his singlet from where he got stepped on, but he finished in 13:50.19, less than a second behind Ole Miss' Toby Gillen (13:49.75). *Video Of Fall
- No Changes To Top-3 Men's Teams In Post Conference Champs NCAA Rankings USC, Texas A&M and Tennessee are 1-3 and Arkansas jumped five spots to #4.
- Georgia Women Stay #1 In Post-Conference Champs NCAA Rankings Texas A&M moved to #2, Arkansas stayed #3 and Texas Tech jumped six spots up to #4.
- Ken Goe: "Is The Future Of College Track And Field, Including Oregon, In Jeopardy?" Goe talks to Vin Lananna and USTFCCCA head Sam Seemes about the impact the current NCAA legal case is going to have on collegiate T&F. Lananna talks about how track has moved away from being "any kind of team sport whatsoever" and meets not being entertaining for fans.
*MB: Vin Lananna says that college track & field competitions are dreadful - How Did The Current Bowerman Watch List Athletes Fare During Conference Champs Weekend? Twenty athletes combined for 17 conference titles and a slew of all-time marks.
- Navy Men, George Mason Women Win IC4A/ECAC Titles
- Event-By-Event Top-10 NCAA Marks Of The Week (May 13-19)
Distance News
- MB: Keely Hodgkinson Vs Athing Mu, Mary Moraa And Tsige Duguma Set For Pre Classic 800m
- MB: Jakob Ingebrigtsen Gives Injury Update Video He says it's a similar achilles issue as he dealt with last year and had to come back from altitude to get treatment at home.
- GB's 1976 Olympic 10,000m Bronze Medalist Says He Thinks It's "Fantastic We've Got These New [Super] Shoes" Foster: "At the end of the day, we ran on tartan tracks, Roger Bannister ran on ash tracks and before that they ran on crappy ash tracks. It's called life and at the end of the day records are there to be broken."
- Boston Marathon Champ John Korir Eyeing A Sub-2:01 Marathon In 2025 He has a 2:02:44 PB from his win in Chicago last year. He'd be just the second man to officially go sub-2:01 after Kelvin Kiptum's 2:00:35 WR.
Sprint Stuff
- Spain's 2016 European 200m Champ And Former Cornell Sprinter Bruno Hortelano Retires At Age 33 Hortelano holds the Spanish 100m (10.06), 200m (20.04) and 400m (44.69) records.
- The Netherlands' Paris Olympic Mixed 4x400 Champ Eugene Omalla Auctions Of His Gold Medal He says he is doing it to provide for his family and for charity. It's currently up to $23,000.
- Former NCAA Indoor 400m Champ Noah Williams Calls Gout Gout "Soft" For Racing Under-23 Race At The Monaco DL
*MB: Scared to face the big-boys? Gout Gout will make DL debut in Monaco in a pre-program U-23 200 - At World Indoor Champs, 60m Sprinter Pais Wisil Became The First Athlete From Papua New Guinea To Advance To A Semifinal At A Global Championship He set the 60m national record with 6.66 in what was his first time ever competing indoors. Wisil is the third sibling to bring track success to New Guinea as his older sister ran at three Olympics and holds the national records for 100m, 200m and 400m and his older brother ran at two Commonwealth Games.
More Upcoming
- Ireland's Efrem Gidey Leads Field For European 10,000m Cup This Saturday In France After running 27:26 a couple of months ago, he's hoping to run under 27 minutes to get the automatic qualifying mark for Tokyo. He'd be the first Irish man to win in the 28-year history of this race.
- GB Sprinters Dina Asher-Smith And Daryll Neita Added To Stockholm DL 100m Field Olympic champ Julien Alfred has already been announced.
- Olympic LJ Champ Miltiadis Tentoglou And Silver Medalist Malaika Mihambo Set For Season Openers Tentoglou this weekend and Mihambo in a couple of weeks.
Impressive Endurance Feats
- Nick Symmonds Becomes The First Sub-4 Miler To Summit Mount Everest Symmonds has apparently been doing a lot of climbing challenges lately as last year he completed his goal to climb to the highest point in all 50 U.S. states. He's also climbed other top summits including Kilimanjaro, Puncak Jaya and Denali.
*MB: Nick Symmonds Makes it To Top of Mt. Everest- 1st Sub 4 Minute Miler to Do So - British Ultra Runner William Goodge Breaks Record For Running Width Of Australia He started in Perth and finished in Sydney, running the ~2361 miles in 35 days. The previous record from 2023 was 39 days.
*MB: Official TransAus World Record Thread, Perth to Sydney, 35 days, 68.5 miles a day
Upcoming Action
- The Three Fastest 400 Hurdlers In History Will Go Head-To-Head Twice Over Four Days Next Month Karsten Warholm, Rai Benjamin and Alison dos Santos will first race at the Oslo Bislett Games on June 12 and then the Stockholm DL on June 15. Warholm recently set the 300H world best (33.05) at the Xiamen DL last month.
- Top Clashes Set For Stockholm DL On June 15 The lineups include Olympic gold and bronze medalists Emmanuel Wanyonyi and Djamel Sedjati in the 800m.
- Keely Hodgkinson, Femke Bol And GB PVer Molly Caudery Announced For London DL On July 19
Tokyo
(link fixed) On the men's side, Hiroki Yanagita (10.06) won the men's 100m over Christian Miller (10.08) and Christian Coleman (10.11)
Great Manchester Run
- Ethiopia's Selemon Barega (27:49) And Medina Eisa (30:42) Win Great Manchester Run 10K; Emily Sisson Finishes Runner-Up Sisson was 2nd in the women's race in 31:03, beating out Gotytom Gebreslase (31:11) and Hellen Obiri (31:16).
Conference Champs Weekend
- Oregon Men Win Big Ten Conference Title, 29 Points Ahead Of Minnesota Oregon's Simeon Birnbaum won the 5000m in 13:31.87 ahead of Wisconsin's Bob Liking (13:32.47) and also finished a close 3rd in the 1500m behind Wisconsin's Adam Spencer and Washington's Nathan Green.
*MB: Adam Spencer beats Nathan Green in super tactical Big 10 1500m Spencer ran 3:53.18 to Green's 3:53.25 and Birnbaum's 3:53.38.
- Big Ten Women: USC Sprint Power Carries It To First Team Championship In New Conference They won a close team race with Oregon by 8 points. UW's Sophie O'Sullivan ran 4:11.66 to win the 1500m over Oregon's Silan Ayyildiz (4:13.35) and Mia Barnett (4:13.40) while Ayyildiz took the 500m in 15:37.
- Parker Wolfe Runs 13:13 to Complete 5000/10,000m ACC Double; Ethan Strand Closes In 51.67 To Win 1500m; Duke Men, Virginia Women Take Team Titles By Just 4 Points Strand was also runner-up in the 5000m. Virginia Tech's Christian Jackson won the men's 800m in an NCAA-leading 1:44.83; Clemson's Gladys Chepngetich took the women's race in 1:59.94. Other winners included NC State's Grace Hartman (5000m, 15:12), Virginia's Margot Appleton (1500m, 4:11), FSU freshman Micahi Danzy (NCAA-leading/#7 world U20 all-time list 400m with 44.38).
*MB: Lex and Leo Young -- Great Weekend!
*MB: FSU footballer runs 44.38 - SEC Recap: Arkansas Men, Georgia Women Win Team Titles Arkansas' Jordan Anthony had a solid sprint double, winning the 100m/200m with 9.95 and 19.93. LSU’s Michaela Rose, South Carolina's JaMeesia Ford took the women's 100m/200m double in 11.06 and 22.01 (#5 NCAA all-time) and Georgia's Aaliyah Butler split 48.86 on the 4x400.
- Video: Five Men Go Down In Crazy Crowded SEC 5000m Ole Miss's Toby Gillen won the race in 13:49.75 while Arkansas' Ben Shearer recovered from falling and getting trampled to take runner-up in 13:50.19.
- BYU's Meghan Hunter Runs Third-Fastest Women's 800m In Collegiate History With 1:58.99; Texas Tech Sweep Big 12 Team Titles Other winners: BYU's James Corrigan (5000m, 13:25), BYU's Lexy Halladay-Lowry (5000m, 15:14.93), OSU's Fouad Messaoudi (1500m, 3:37.27), Kansas' Emmaculate Jemutai (1500m, 4:08.60).
*MB: Big 12 5K stupid
- Oregon Men Take Lead Into Final Day At Big Ten Champs, With USC Lurking Oregon went 1-3 in the steeple lead by Benjamin Balazs' 8:40 win.
- Annika Williams' Pentathlon Win (5914 Points) Keeps Oregon Women Within Striking Distance At Big Ten Champs Illinois leads the team race with Oregon currently in 4th, 16 points behind.
- NAU Sweeps Men's And Women's Big Sky Conference Titles
Atlanta City Games
- Nigeria’s Favour Ofili And Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala Win 150m Races At Atlanta City Games Running on the temporary straight track, Ofili became the first woman to go under 16 seconds for 150m with 15.85 while Omanyala won in 14.70. Also racing on the straight track, GB's Zharnel Hughes won the 200m in a wind-assisted 19.55 (2.2m/s) and South Africa’s Akani Simbine took the 100m in a wind-aided 9.86 (2.3m/s). *DyeStat Recap
Doha DL was Friday
The biggest result came in the men's javelin where 2021 Olympic champ Neeraj Chopra became the 25th man to break 90m (90.23) but lost as Julian Weber went 91.06 in round 6. In other events, Botswana's 3:30 man Tshepiso Masalela edged Bryce Hoppel in the 800 with a 1:43.11 WL, bronze medalist Faith Cherotich (9:05.08 WL) turned the tables on the Olympic gold and silver medalists in a great women's steeple, and Tia Clayton (10.92 WL, +2.0) spoiled SAFP's DL season debut in the 100. *WA Recap *YouTube reaction show
Previous Conference Champs Coverage
- Oregon's Diana Cherotich Dominates Big Ten 10,000m With Meet Record 32:00 She won he race easily by 32 seconds.
- Baylor's Nathaniel Ezekiel Breaks Own Nigerian 400H Record At Big 12 Championships With 47.90 (#7 On NCAA All-Time List) Ernest Cheruiyot ran a 54.70 second last lap to win the 10,000m in 29:37.64 ahead BYU's Creed Thompson (29:39.36). West Virginia's Joy Naukot won the women's 10,000m. OSU's Fouad Messaoudi lead the 1500m final qualifiers with a 3:38.01.
- Big Ten Men: Minnesota's 1-2 Finish In Hammer Helps Them Take First-Day Lead Washington's Evan Jenkins won a close 10,000m over Oregon's Aiden Smith, 29:24.48 to 29:24.65.
- Baylor's NCAA Indoor Champ Alexis Brown Jumps World Leading 7.03m In Big 12 Long Jump BYU’s James Corrigan (8:22) and West Virginia’s Sarah Tait (9:44) won the men's and women's steeples.
- SEC Day 2: Doris Lemngole Wins Steeple In MR 9:20 Florida's Anthaya Charlton won the LJ and made the 100m final.
- SEC Day 1: Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan Wins Third Straight Hammer Title Arkansas's Paityn Noe won the women's 10,000m.
- ACC Field Events: Notre Dame's Three-Time NCAA Indoor Pentathlon Champ Jadin O'Brien's Wins ACC Heptathlon With MR 6220 Points
- MB: Official 2025 NCAA Conference Champs -- May 14--17 -- Live Discussion Thread
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Grand Slam Track Moves From 3 Days To 2 and Dumps The 5k
Michael Johnson has always said he is open to feedback when it comes to his new venture, Grand Slam Track. It took just two meets for Johnson to act on that feedback. Are the changes good for the future of the league or a sign of panic/financial distress? Rojo and Jonathan Gault debate what it all means.
- MB: Great Move: Grand Slam Track Shifts to 2-Day Schedule, Cut LD Group to 3K only
- MB: Grant Fisher Screwed, Grand Slam Cuts Long Distance Prize Down to 50K
- MB: Grand Slam Track is a disaster - The general premise of Grand Slam Track was bad
- MB: US TV ratings are in for first two Grand Slam Track meets They are averaging just under 250k per meet which is a tiny bit higher than what NCAAs got last year.
Previous Conference Champs Coverage
- MB: Official 2025 NCAA Conference Champs -- May 14--17 -- Live Discussion Thread At ACCs, Parker Wolfe used a 57 second final lap to dispatch Lex Young and everyone else at ACCs to win a new pb of 28:51.09. *DyeStat Recap
- Recommended Read: With the Big 10 meet happening in Eugene, it's only fitting to look back at the 14 Big 10 vs Pacific Coast meets This year marks the 70th anniversary of the last dual meet matching the Big Ten against the Pacific Coast Conference. They met 14 times in track and field from 1937 to 1955 and some big names like Jackie Robinson, Bill Dellinger, and Louis Zamperini competed. The 1951 meet at Eugene drew a crowd of 6,500, then the largest ever to see a track meet in Oregon.
- 17 storylines to follow at the Big Tens
- Stride Report Distance Predictions: ACC *AAC *BIG East *BIG 12 *MAC *Mountain West *SEC
Weekend Previews
- Reynold Cheruiyot has added weight training in for 1st time this year The 2022 1500 world jr champ won the Kenyan Trials last year at age 19 but didn't make the Olympic final. “I have added strength work this year. I never used to do gym sessions, but I saw how crucial it is for finishing speed and injury prevention and added it to my training this year,” said Reynold who is in the Doha 5k.
- Sha'Carri Richardson Will Open Her Season At The Tokyo Golden Grand Prix This Weekend She'll race the 100m against US's Twanisha Terry. The men's 100m has Christian Coleman and Christian Miller; Andre De Grasse is in the 200m.
- Sha'Carri Richardson posts, "Go time" on X as she'll debut on Sunday in Tokyo
Gjert Ingebrigtsen Trial Concludes on Day 24
- Dramatic final day at Gjert Ingebrigtsen trial: Jakob Ingebrigtsen tells court he has no motives for lying - “It is embarrassing to be a victim of domestic violence" “I know what I have experienced with the defendant since I was a little boy, and I have had no motives for lying. It is embarrassing to be a victim for our family, and it does not fit into the image you have of yourself and your family. We will all carry baggage with us from this trial,” said Jakob in a pre-written speech. He didn't attend earlier in the day when the defense team defended Gjert. The verdict will come on June 16th. *The Guardian
- Defense attorney attacks Jakob's credibility - points to inconsistencies in his description of abuse over the years In addition to arguing the statue of limitations should apply to the head beating charge, Gjert's attorney says Jakob said Gjert hit him for 5-10 minutes at trial but previously had said it went on for more much longer.
- Jakob's attorney says Jakob is already famous & had no reason to lie or go through with this trial unless it's true
More From The Ingebrigtsen Trial
- Gjert's attorney repeatedly reminds the court that the testimony of Tone Ingebrigtsen (Gjert's wife) totally backed Gjert Tone even said that her daughter lied about not having any skin conditions.
- Gjert's attorney asks for full acquittal, says only incident that is 'borderline' and may deserve some punishment is towel incident with daughter - suggest fine of $750 might be appropriate
- Defense reminds everyone that film crews filmed Gjert for hundreds of hours and followed him for years and never witnessed anything
- Jakob writes a column on VG.com as trial concludes - Today we draw the line He tells the press he doesn't want to talk about the trial moving forward but urges them to not forget less famous victims of abuse. He also said in court he's upset he didn't get the 'recognition' he deserved for coming forward.
- Gjert Ingebrigtsen doesn't issue closing statement but previously said he hopes to re-establish ties with the 5 kids who have cut off all contact "I have done what I have done in the best of intentions, in what I perceived was a desire from my children to help them become what they most wanted to become. "
- MB: Jakob goes from indoor worlds to a Norwegian courtroom where his testimony may send his dad to prison.
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How Josh Hoey Rose To The Top Of The World
For five years, Hoey cylced through coach after coach but barely improved from his 1:47.67 high school 800m pb. Learn why he moved around so often -- and why he never gave up. Part I of JG's 7,000+ word feature.
*MB: Josh Hoey profile by JG
- Part II: SC How Josh Hoey Went from Also-Ran to World Indoor Champion, Part II: Going All-In With Justin Rinaldi & The Fast 8 Track Club Hoey's career had stagnated until connecting with Rinaldi in 2023. Within minutes of seeing him train in-person, Rinaldi knew he was special: "I said, if I can’t get this guy to run 1:44, there’s something wrong with me."
This Week's Pod w Clayton Murphy
Clayton Murphy was our guest this week and talks about his great career. What were his favorite moments, races? Why did he decide to hang them up?
More Interesting Articles
- MB: Keely H gets honored by Prince William who tells her Princess Charlotte is a big track athlete and fan
- Keely Hodgkinson's 1st race since winning Olympic gold last year will be in Stockholm on June 15 - And it will be a dandy as it will include the entire Olympic podium.
- Chaos at AZ HS state champs - Overzealous officials ruin the boys 3200 This is a WILD story. 6 boys were incorrectly forbidden from running as it was said they didn't check in (they did check in). A few studs boycotted in solidarity. One of Mike Scanell's runners won the race, but then lost as ultimately they ran another heat later in the night.
*MB: This actually happened in 3200m at Arizona HS State Championship - The Netherlands Eugene Omalla's Olympic Mixed 4 x 400 gold medal may fetch 80k in auction The former Kansas State sprinter will use some of the proceeds for his parents charity in Uganda where he spent much of his childhood.
Cheating/Doping News
- WSJ: "The Rapid Rise Of 'Illegal' Running Shoes" Shoe companies have been making shoes that are purposefully over the 40mm stack height allowed by World Athletics. They might not be legal for elite races, but they can still make lots of money selling them to recreational runners.
*MB: WSJ - the rise of 'illegal' running shoes - Olympic 400H Champ (Now High School Coach) Lashinda Demus Wants Drug Testing At The High School Level Demus (who was retroactively upgraded to Olympic gold when Russia’s Natalya Antyukh was DQ'd for doping) said, "If we have all these kids that are pretty much capable of running professional and have these professional marks, we probably need to start testing earlier because they potentially could be people that can make the national teams."
- Enhanced Games Founder Expects "Billions" To Tune In To Watch The "Doping Olympics" The host city and roster of athletes is set to be announced soon. In their promotional material, the Enhanced Games claims to have an "enhanced" sprinter that broke Usain Bolt's 100m record. We say show the tape or we're not buying it.
Ingebrigtsen Trial Update
- Prosecutors Want Two-And-A-Half Years Prison Sentence For Jakob Ingebrigtsen's Father The trial is scheduled to end on Thursday. The prosecutors and defense are telling wildly different stories. Prosecutors: "The starting point in these cases is unconditional imprisonment.” The defense is arguing for an acquittal. "We have heard an extremely large number of witnesses. We cannot see that there have been any witnesses who have substantiated from the outside that there has been fear among the children, something the court must find evidence of in order to convict for a so‑called regime of abuse."
More Upcoming
- Zurich DL Final Tickets Sell Out In Two Hours
- Star Studded Hurdles Fields Lead By Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Set For Third Grand Slam Track In Philadelphia On May 30 It should be interesting as McLaughlin-Levrone will step down to the short hurdles group (100m/100H). She's never raced a 100m (at least professionally) and her 100H PB is 12.65 from 2021.
- Keely Hodgkinson Will Open Her Season On June 15th At Teh Stockholm DL Meet This will be her first race since winning the Olympics after a hamstring injury kept her out during the indoor season.
- Jakob Ingebrigtsen And Italian HJer Gianmarco Tamberi Announced For Brussels DL In August Ingebrigtsen broke the 2000m world record in Brussels in 2023.
- GB's Heptathlon Olympic Silver Medalist Katarina Johnson-Thompson Competing In Loughborough Javelin This Weekend
- Femke Bol Will Open Her Outdoor Season At The Rabat DL On May 25
Other News
- MB: Anna Hall and Gabby Thomas in SI swimsuit issue (pics)
- Keely Hodgkinson Receives MBE At Windsor Castle
- Sports Business Journal: Nike Cuts Roughly 40% Of Top Positions In Latest Mass Layoff They laid off 32 vice presidents, 112 senior directors and 174 directors as part of 732 eliminated jobs (2% reduction in their global workforce).
- Olympic 4th Placer Emile Cairess And 2:21 Runner Calli Hauger-Thackery Selected For GB's World Champs Marathon Team They are the first two athletes to be named to Team GB for Tokyo 2025.
NCAA / HS News
- OSU's Fouad Messaoudi Ran 3:34.34 (#10 On NCAA All-Time List) At The Arkansas Twilight Over The Weekend The time broke Joe Falcon's 1988 facility record at John McDonnell Field.
- New York Post: California Track Meet Turns To Political Rally Over Trans Athletes California schools, athletes and parents are speaking out against the state for continuing to allow boys to compete in girls sports. There is currently a male athlete who is ranked #1 in the state in the long jump, triple jump and high jump.
- No Changes To The Top-5 Men's Teams In Updated NCAA Rankings; USC Still #1 Texas A&M, Tennessee and Nebraska are ranked 2-4.
- Georgia Women Stay #1 In Latest NCAA Rankings USC and Arkansas moved up to 2-3 and Texas A&M down to #4.
- InsideTheGames: NCAA Participants Face Growing Anxiety Over House Settlement As has been previously reported, the court case might benefit football and basketball, but looks to be a disaster for many athletes in non-revenue sports.
- Event-By-Event Top-10 NCAA Marks Of The Week (May 6-12)
More From World Relays
- It Was A Disastrous Men's 4x100 For Jamaica At World Relays On day one, Jamaica failed to qualify for the final after a botched baton pass and in the loser's heat on day two, their second leg (Julian Forte) pulled up injured resulting in a DNF. They will now have to qualify with one of the two world rankings spots if they want to go to worlds.
- South Africa's Akani Simbine On Relay Success: “First and foremost, it’s team camaraderie. If a team actually get along, then they are able to make it work.” Is this what Team USA is missing? Simbine added, "The big thing with the placing of the guys – everybody wants to be the anchor, because they feel like the anchor gets all the limelight. But every position works with different strengths, and every athlete has different strengths. As a coach, when you're putting together a team, it's putting together the guys according to their strengths and not according to egos. You can have the fastest guys in the world at that time running, but if you don't get the stick around, and you don't have the guys in their best positions running, then it's not going to work out."
*South Africa Voted Best Team At The World Relays - 70 Relay Teams Now Qualified For World Champs The US is one of four federations (along with Belgium, France, Great Britain) to qualify in all five events for worlds.
- Kenya Wins Kids' Athletics Day Member Federation Relay Around The World Challenge Kenya contributed almost a quarter of the 600,000 kids that participated in the global event.
Olympic Champs Moving Forward and Backward?
The rumor was he was going to go for the 5000 WR in Oslo.
- MB: Athing Mu finishes 1st race since last July. Runs in 3-person 1500 at DII last chance meet, wins by 55 seconds in 4:21 It's not every day that you find an Olympic champ in a meet of this quality.
Olympic News
- LA 2028 Opening Ceremony To Be Held At Two Different Stadiums At Same Time It will be split between the Coliseum and SoFi Stadium and it will be the first time an opening ceremony will be hosted at two different locations simultaneously. Although, the article doesn't mention the logistics of how this will happen.
- LA Metro Transportation Authority Wants LA 2028 To Reimburse Them $2.015 Billion In Games-Only Transit Costs
- IOC President Thomas Bach Encourages Japan To Bid For Future Olympics If They Address Their Corruption Concerns
USATF 25k Champs
Clinger ran 1:12:17 (breaking the American record by 52 seconds) to Klecker's 1:12:31 and Bor's 1:12:53. Carrie Ellwood won the women's race by over a minute in 1:22:27, also setting an American record.
- 2:06:39 Marathoner Zouhair Talbi (35th At The Paris Olympics For Morocco) Has Submitted His Transfer Of Allegiance To The US He can't represent the US internationally yet, but can race at US championships. He finished 4th at the US 25k Champs this weekend.
- MB: USATF 25k Champs
2025 World Relays
- USA Breaks Championship Record To Dominate Mixed 4x400 At World Relays; Spain Upsets US In Women's 4x400; South Africa Wins Men's 4x400 They US took more than a second off the record they set last year to dominate the race by 2.66 seconds over Australia and Kenya. In the women's 4x400, Spain set a 3:24.13 NR to get an upset win over the US (3:24.72). In the men's 4x400, SA ran a world-leading 2:57.50 to win over Belgium and Botswana.
- Canada Claims Inaugural World Relays Mixed 4x100 Crown; South Africa Win Men's 4x100 And GB The Women's Canada won the mixed race in 40.30 ahead of Jamaica (40.44) and the UK (40.88). After the dropped baton on day 1 kept them out of the final, team USA won the loser's heat in 40.78 which would have won them bronze in the final. In the men's 4x100, South Africa upset the US winning 37.61 to 37.66 and in the women's race, GB took gold ahead of Spain and Jamaica (despite having SAFP and Shericka Jackson) while the US finished outside the medals in 4th
NCAA / HS News
- Tiger Woods' Daughter Competed In Four Events At The Florida State Meet She finished last and second to last in the 100H and 400H, but also ran on her team's 4x800 and 4x400 that got 2nd and 4th places. Her school ended up winning the overall team title.
- Princeton Men And Women Sweep Ivy League (Heps) Championships
Harvard was a distant runner-up for the men and 24 points back for the women. One highlight was Princeton's Georgina Scoot winning the LJ/TJ double with 6.51m and 13.36m, breaking meet records that were 17 and 35-years-old. *Results
*MB: What the HELL is going on at HEPS - Ivy League Championships 2025 An early celebration in the men's steeple and a dropped baton in the men's 4x100 cost Princeton some points, but they still dominated the meet. - MB: Quincy Wilson runs anchor leg on 4 x 800 at 2025 IAC Championship - gets walked down. Got the stick with a 5+ second lead. Split 2:00.21 and got walked down aby a 1:54.75.
- Washington State Men And Women Dominate Pac-12 Open The PAC-12 conference is no more.
World Relays Day 1
- Mixed 4x100 Relay Makes Debut and US Drops Baton South Africa and Japan both ran a world-leading 37.84 to top the list of men's 4x100 qualifiers while Spain set a 42.18 national record to lead the women's 4x100. Team USA men (37.86) and women (42.86) each won their heat as well. In the mixed 4x100, Canada had the fastest time with 40.90 while Team USA fumbled the woman to man baton exchange and failed to qualify for the final, finishing with 1:05.77.
- US Wins Heats in Women's and Mixed 4x4s, but the Men Don't Make the Final The US men finished third in their heat behind France and KENYA and now will have to finish top-three in the loser's round tomorrow to secure a spot for Worlds.
- Enter To Win A Signed Baton From World Relays
- First 40 Relay Teams Qualified For 2025 Tokyo Worlds
Oregon Twilight
- Shelby Houlihan Runs 4:05.78 To Win Oregon Twilight 1500m Over Gabija Galvydyté (4:05.89), Karissa Schweizer (4:06.01), and Eleanor Fulton (4:06.66) Oregon sophomore Simeon Birnbaum won the men's 1500m in 3:37.02 ahead of Kieran Tuntivate (3:37.37) and Thomas Ratcliffe (3:37.58).
*MB: Oregon Twilight Meet: Houlihan versus Schweizer @ One thousand five hundred meters
Kerley 9.87
- Fred Kerley Runs Wind-Aided 9.87 (+2.9) In His First Meet Since His Arrest He ran that in that in the semis at the Franson Last Chance meet in California after a 9.95 (+2.3) in the prelim. Final is on Saturday. While that sounds fast, it's only equal to a 10.00 with no wind.
*MB: A week after being arrested, Fred Kerley run 9.95w (+2.3) and 9.87w (+2.9)
It's Time To Move On
Murphy, who turned 30 in February, ran his 1:42.93 pb on the biggest stage of all - the Rio Olympics. He made a very nice retirement video which you can watch above.
- Jamaica's Brianna Lyston (LSU) ends NCAA career early, turns pro Before going to LSU, she was already the World U20 200m champ. At LSU, she won the 2024 NCAA 60m title and was runnerup in the 100m, running 7.03 and 10.91
Doping News
In January of 2021, the former world champ told a drug tester he needed to go get his passport in his car and then he sped off. His ban wasn't formally confirmed by CAS until February of this year. The AIU lists his ban as having ended in February but WADA tells us Aman could have technically competed during the last 4 years so his ban still got 3+ years to go even though the AIU database says it ended in February.
- MB: Breaking: Former 800m world champ just finished up a secret 4-year drug ban
- *Previous: LRC Former World 800m Champion Just Finished Up SECRET 4-Year Ban For Evading A Drug Test
- MB: Indian arrested for distributing PEDs in Iten, Kenya
- Elite Athletes Warned To Avoid One-Night Stands OVer The Risk Of Failing Drug Tests There have been multiple instances of athletes being cleared after proving that their positive test came from kissing someone who used a recreational drug.
- MB: Kenyan 2:07 Marathoner Brian Kipsang Gets Two-Year Doping Ban
- Spanish Marathon Champion Hamid Ben Daoud (2:06/60:41 PBs) Gets 4-Year Doping Ban From CAS Ben Dauud as well as 2:08 Spanish marathoner Abdelaziz Merzougui were caught by the biological passport system, but the Spanish anti-doping system delayed their cases for years before CAS stepped in to issue the bans.
Girma Update
"He’s still feeling parts of the concussion coming to him when he reaches certain high speeds and levels," said Girma's agent Hussein Makke. "...He’s not normal yet. He’s able to train and he’s put in good workout sessions, but at such a point, a combination of intensity and other things, he feels some dizziness and some things...He's planning to come back and run his race when he’s close to 100%."
Fred Kerley Drama At GST
Johnson, a 2024 Olympian in the 100m hurdles, told Broward County police that Kerley struck her in the face, causing her nose to bleed. Kerley's girlfriend says that's not what happened. She sayd Johnson's girlfriend actually hit Johnson when fighting with Kerley.
- Previous: Two-time Olympic 100m Medalist Fred Kerley Arrested at Meet Hotel Ahead of Grand Slam Track Miami Grand Slam Track said Kerley, who was arrested in a separate incident in January, will not compete in this weekend's event
Why Did They Skip GST?
GST's doubling requirement proved to be an issue for Hall, who has not raced a 200m since 2016, so he has withdrawn from the series and will race in the Diamond League this summer instead.
Valby Update
"She is on the mend,"said Parker's father and agent, Kyle. "I don’t want to get into [the specifics of the injury] at this point, but she is in good shape...I’ll be able to share more [about racing plans] in the future, we’re just waiting on a few things relative to her health. She’s in a good spot mentally."
Kipyegon opens her season in Xiamen with nearly a WR But...
On Wednesday, Nike announced that Kenya's Faith Kipyegon will attempt to break four minutes in the mile on June 26 in Paris. Spoiler alert. She's not going to break 4. And it's not going to be particularly close. Did you know the 1k time she ran on Saturday where she just nearly broke the WR is still below sub-4 mile pace?
Shoe News
Taylor Roe broke 15:00 for the 1st time in her career today, racing in the shoes for the 1st time. 5k man Amon Kemboi also loved them. "You kind of feel the bounce only," Kemboi said. "So even though you are tired, you feel just the drive it gives you when your legs are tired."
Wejo Speaks
Grand Slam Track took a big swing at its launch. It definitely didn't hit a home run, but the Diamond League and Athlos should be paying attention.
The Olympic bronze medallist only broke 70m for the first time 4 days ago and now he's got six throws in a row over 70, all coming at all coming at Throws Town.in Oklahoma - at the same site where the WR was set.
More From The Ten
Bekele and Sound Running's Jesse Williams, meet director for The TEN, explain why the Ethiopian star Telahun Bekele, who is racing GST this weekend, missed the start on Saturday night and how he hit the World Championship standard anyway.
Shelby Speaks
Last week, Houlihan spoke with LetsRun.com for more than an hour with no questions off the table. Houlihan shares which supplements she took at the time of her positive test, why she said she didn't know what nandrolone is, running a 30:31 10k in practice, and her hopes for World Indoors and the rest of 2025.
Stop Obsessing Over Your Diet
The US indoor 1500m/3000m champion overhauled his fueling in workouts before the 2024 season. Now he swears by his routine.
The Shelby Interview
Houlihan spoke to LetsRun for over an hour and answered a slew of questions about her doping ban, what she thinks happened, and her return to racing. Full talk out for SC members. Everyone else can watch the clip above or wait for wider release. Join the SC today.
Big Doping Story
Jeptanui, a freshman from Kenya, finished 12th at NCAAs in November, but has been provisionally suspended since September. She's currently triple entered in the AAC championships which start today.
The Record Books Are Getting Rewritten In 2025
In the span of one week in February, runners broke five world indoor records and every American men's middle-distance record from 800m to 5000m. Jonathan Gault spoke to some of America's top athletes and coaches to find the reasons behind all of the fast times.
One More Look at a Legendary Race
From novice fans to running diehards, there was something for everyone (except perhaps Brits and Norwegians) to enjoy about one of the greatest middle distance races ever run.
Blanks = NCAA XC x 2
Just before Blanks chases a 5,000m pb and collegiate record in what is likely his final NCAA race at Boston University on Saturday, he told LetsRun about the key session of his 2024 XC season -- one he described as "probably the best workout I've had so far in my career."
Jonathan Gault pays tribute to two legends
Simpson and Centrowitz, who both 1st medalled in 2011 and retired in 2024, leave the sport as two of the faces on the Mt. Rushmore of American 1500m running after piling up a combined eight medals at global championships. And despite not ever finishing in the top 3 on the yearly 1500 list (Simpson's best was 4th, Centro's 9th), they will be remembered as two of the better milers of their generation.
World Marathon Majors Soon Will Be Dead....... Unless
Expanding the number of world marathon majors to nine is an absurd idea unless the majors make one simple change that will instantly keep them being compelling, elite sporting events.
Your latest American stars share their insights.
American Record Holders
American Record Holders
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.
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