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Archived Homepage For July 24, 2025
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It's July 24th - LRC Founders Day
News From Outside the USA
- Eilish McColgan calls on agents and coaches to be sanctioned when big stars like Ruth Chepngetich get popped "I think the agents and coaches need to be a little bit more responsible for that as well. I mean this isn't just Ruth doing this on her own. There's a deeper team involved here that are essentially….. I'm not going to say using an athlete but do you know what I mean? Whether there's coaches, doctors, agents, particularly, I think they need to be held responsible in some way."
*Eilish McColgan used to get slammed online for her body being skinny, now she has to read vile and racists posts about her engagement to a black man
*McColgan views herself as a marathoner but admits she may compete in the 10,000 at 2026 CGs in her native Scotland “But I think, for me, it's hard to turn down an opportunity to race in Glasgow, a home championship. How often do I get to do that? - Full Kenyan Worlds team named - Peres Jepchirchir thrilled to returning to Japan for 1st time since winning Olympic marathon gold in 2021 "I am happy with the confidence the Kenyan selectors have
- Faith Kipyegon watched the Kenyan Trials from the stands and then confirmed she'll double at Worlds She also said she thinks she can set a 4th WR in the 1500. " So, I'll keep pushing it--there's still room for improvement."
- After dominant steeple win, Faith Cherotich vows to make millions of Kenyans happy at Worlds When you run 8:48 at age 20, you have reason to be confident.
- Korean high jump star Woo Sang-Hyeok has gotten over MAJOR Olympic despair He was hoping to win Korea's 1st Olympic medal ever in track and field, but came up well short in 7th and his coach was honest, "It wasn’t your body that held you back in Paris. It was mental."
The Latest N. American Distance News
- Chris Lear and Sean Brosnan speak to fans about their new book as Diadora opens its 1st local pop-up store in Flagstaff 25 years ago, LRC popped up in Flag. Now Diadora is smartly following in the footsteps of the OG. Brosnan will soon be coming out with a new book about his Newbury Park days entitled "Beyond Fast" co-authored with Lear and former LA Times writer Andrew Greif.
- Marco Arop is running the 1500 at Canadian champs He's got a bye to Worlds in the 800 as the defending champ but will also maybe run that to help training partner Abdullahi Hassan get the WC standard.
- Donavan Brazier is THRILLED to be back but realizes he's got work to do: "I’m going to need to step up my game a little bit.” “If you’d have told me two months ago I’d be running this sort of time I’d have probably said ‘You’re lying!’ But to run this sort of time and still finish 6th, it just shows how good the 800 guys are. It’s a top-heavy event right now with a lot of good guys, and I’m going to need to step up my game a little bit.”
- Katelyn Tuohy and Mario Garcia Romo to headline 2025 Sir Walter Miler on August 8th The meet is World Athletics Continental Tour silver for the 1st time this year.
- 3-time UTMB champ Courtney Dauwalter is a yes for UTMB, no word yet if 2-time champ and course record holder Katie Schide will battle her
- Harvard's incoming freshman class unveiled They have girls at 4:39 and 4:46 coming in. For the boys, they have the FL champ, a 4:03 guy, a 4:05 guy and much more.
- Congress may pass SCORE act which will have huge NCAA implications Schools pulling in more than $50 millon a year in TV revenue will be forbidden from charging students fees to support athletics. Also, athletes wouldn't be classified as employees. They'd be guaranteed the right to transfer once (but after that it could be limited). It also interestingly would allow schools "to deny their student-athletes from signing NIL deals that conflict with university sponsors."
On The Boards
On The Boards
USA Champs Are Next Week & The Entries/Non Entries Are Interesting
Quincy Hall did not enter USAs by the entry deadline Tuesday at midnight.
- LRC Track Fans Rejoice: Athing Mu Makes Last-Minute Entry Into USATF 800m Perhaps LetsRun.com was the only place people were freaking out as the clock neared midnight on the East Coast and Athing Mu still had not entered USAs. Never fear, she entered with 2.5 hours to spare, slightly ahead of what she did last year for the Olympic Trials.
The 2024 Olympian posted on Instagram, "[I] did everything in my power to get back to race USAs but unfortunately my foot isn't 100% healed yet. Be back soon."
- MB: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Will Only Race The 400m At USAs It looks like SML will get out of her comfort zone and run only the 400 at Worlds. She still could run the 400H in Tokyo if she won the DL finale, but she doesn't have any DL points.
- MB: USATF Champs Day 1 and 2 Not on NBC
2025 Kenyan Trials
A wacky Kenyan Trials were held this morning in front of a sparse crowd, not a surprise since it was held on Tuesday morning with little advanced notice. Have you ever seen an elite women's 800 go out in 75? Well, that happened. In the race of the day, Reynold Cheruiyot nipped Timothy Cheruiyot at the line to win the 1500. Plus NCAA stars Brigid Kogsei and Brian Musau won't be going to Worlds but for different reasons. NCAA record holder Doris Lemngole even though she was tronced in the steeple.
Distance News
- US's 1972 Olympic 800m Champ Dave Wottle Tells The Story Of How West German Competitor Franz-Josef Kemper Saved His Race Right before the race while waiting in the tunnel to go to the track, and official told Wottle he would be DQ'd for having one too many spikes in each of his shoes. Wottle had no spike wrench to remove them and was panicking, but Kemper (who finished 4th) found one for Wottle, saving his race.
- Identical Triplets Run Japan Niigata Prefecture High School Championships 5000m Together They finished one after the other in the race, taking places 6th, 7th and 8th with the fastest at 14:49.70.
- 42-Year-Old Mom Goes Viral For Photo Of Her Breastfeeding While Eating Watermelon During An Ultra Marathon
LetsSprint.com
- Zharnel Hughes Doesn't Seem Concerned Over Delay In Grand Slam Track Prize Money Payments Hughes said, "In regards to the payment, it’s almost like a regular season where you run a couple of Diamond League races, you run other races, and you get paid in the latter part of the season. ...I’m just looking to see if you get paid by August, September, the time we usually get paid by." He also noted that he had been paid his appearance fee.
- Meeting Madrid Recap: WR Holder Wayde Van Niekerk Runs First 400m In Over A Year With 44.91 3rd Place Finish The race was won by Elián Larregina in 44.53 seconds. Olympic bronze medalist Djamel Sedjati won the 800m in 1:43.53; three-time Olympic medalist Natalia Bukowiecka took the women's 400m (50.07).
- World Athletics Looks Back At When Jamaica Swept The Women's 100m Medals At The 2022 World Championships Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won in 10.67 with Shericka Jackson (10.73) and Elaine Thompson-Herah (10.81) taking silver and bronze. The three also swept the medals at the Tokyo Olympics the year before, although in a different order.
Olympic News
- USOPC Bans Transgender Athletes From Women's Olympic Sports Previously they let individual sports federations make their own rules, but now have banned men from women's Olympic sports completely to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order.
*MB: U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee Quietly Updates Policy to Bar Males from Women's Competition - USOPC Pushing Lawmakers To Tweak Legislation To Require Colleges To Spend The Same Percentage On Olympic Sports In The Future As They Do Now The SCORE Act is a current bill in congress that would require schools to sponsor at least 16 teams, but USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland says, "The bill, as it’s written, would make it too easy for a school to starve 15 programs and invest in one."
- Doha, Qatar Bids For The 2036 Olympics Doha previously bid for the 2016 and 2020 Olympics, but did not reach the final phase. For their 2036 bid, they boasted that 95% of required venues are already operational.
More News From Kenya
- Former Two-Time World Marathon Champion Abel Kirui Finally Hangs 'Em Up At Age 42 Kirui won world marathon gold in 2009 and 2011, plus Olympic silver in 2012. His 2:05:04 PB is from 2009 (well before super shoes) and he last broke 2:10 in 2023 when he ran 2:08:36 for 8th place at the Fukuoka Marathon (He ran a 2:21 marathon this year and 2:14 in 2024).
- Athletics Kenya Offered Eliud Kipchoge A World Marathon Champs Spot An Athletics Kenya official said, "We asked Kipchoge if he would participate but he said he would prefer someone else to go this time round." Kipchoge is only the 11th fastest Kenyan marathoner this year with his 2:05:25 from London in April.
- Kenyan Nairobi Marathon Winner Ronald Kurgat Gets 6-Year Doping Ban He received a longer ban because he tested positive twice, the second positive test coming after he was notified of the first.
- MB: Athletics Illustrated's Christopher Kelsall Says Phanuel Koech's Performances "Don't Make Sense
RIP
- Bill Dellinger To Be Honored At July 30 At Hayward Field (The Day Before USA Start) RunnerSpace will have a free live broadcast of the event (10:30PM ET).
- Maeve Kyle, Ireland's First Female Track And Field Olympian, Dies At 96 She ran the 100m and 200m at the 1956 Melbourne Games and also competed at the Rome and Tokyo Olympics.
- Longtime University Of Cincinnati Head Coach Bill Schnier Passes Away At 80 Years Old Some of the top athletes Schnier coached include NBC Olympic track and field analyst Lewis Johnson, 2008 Olympic 4x400 gold medalist Mary Wineberg and 2008 Olympic 110H silver medalist David Payne.
Post-Euro U23 Champs Stuff
This Week's Main Podcast - The Ultimate Victory Lap For Rojo
Emmanuel Wanyonyi is the real deal, what about Phanuel Koech and Niels Laros after their impressive weekend's. What about Donavan Brazier's 1:43.08 in London and Rush Chepngetich getting popped for a masking agent.
Seb Coe Speaks About GST
- The Times: Seb Coe Worried About Grand Slam Track Unpaid Prize Money Situation Coe said, “It’s not good. There is no point in pretending this is a satisfactory situation. ... Conduct in our sport is important to us. And we are following this closely. I’ve had conversations with individual athletes, athlete representatives, even meeting directors on this.”
- Coe On GST: "For these things to work, they can’t be vanity projects. They have to be suffused in practicality and deliverability." WA CEO Jon Ridgeon talked about how they wanted GST to work and specifically "gave them really high world ranking points" to try and make the meets "attractive as possible" to athletes.
- MB: World Athletics concerned about GST
More Weekend Results
Other race winners included Ethiopia's Nigist Getachew in the 800m (1:57.01), Belgium's Isaac Kimeli in the 5000m (13:01.39) and World 800m champ Mary Moraa in the 400m (50.49).
*MB: Gjert does it again: Middling 28-year-old Jose Carlos Pinto (3:37-3:31.9 in 1 season) Pinto won the 1500m in a PB of 3:31.94 in Belgium.
- Hokuren Distance Challenge: Japan-Based Kenyans Highlight Japan collegiate record holder Richard Etir soloed a 27:37 in the 10,000m.
- Richard Omaya Atuya And Michael Selelo Saoli Lead Kenyan Dominance At Vauban Mountain And Trail Race In France Atuya took the uphill race and Saoli the classic race. For the women, French duo Christel Dewalle (uphill) and Nélie Clément (trail) were the winners.
European U23 Champs
- European Under-23 Champs: Netherlands' Niels Laros Wins 5000m (13:44.74), 800m (1:44.36) Double Laros won the 5000m ahead of Ireland's Nick Griggs (13:45.80) and came in 0.61 ahead of Britain’s Justin Davies in the 800m. Switzerland's two-time European U20 champ Audrey Werro dominated the women's 800m in a championship record 1:57.42.
*MB: Niels Laros 1:44.19 Laros ran a PB in the Euro U23 heats finishing 3rd (Italy’s Francesco Pernici won the heat with a championship record 1:44.06). - Event-By-Event Recaps From European Athletics
- AW: British Athletes Win Four Golds At European U23 Champs
A Legend Is Lost
Vigil was the long-time coach at Adams State, winning 19 national titles, including the 1992 team which put up a perfect score 1-2-3-4-5 at D2 Nationals. He also coached Deena Kastor to her 2004 Olympic Marathon bronze, Meb Keflezighi, Pat Porter, Brenda Martinez and many more. In addition to a coach, he was a sports scientist (he had a Ph.D. in exercise physiology) and wrote the well known book, Road to the Top, which includes many insights into training and the science behind it.
Other News Of Note
- Transgender Runner Sues Princeton After Being Blocked From Women's Track Race Sadie Schreiner is suing Princeton for discrimination, but Princeton is following the NCAA and World Athletics rules against men competing against women, so we're not sure what the case is here.
- Athlos NYC Meet Will Have The Long Jump In Times Square Olympic champ Tara Davis-Woodhall will headline.
- Olympic LJ Silver Medalist Wayne Pinnock Talks About Switching Allegiance From Jamaica To Turkey He doesn't think that Jamaica does enough to support its athletes and felt he'd have regretted turning down the financial opportunity Turkey was offering, saying "I do love my country. But loyalty doesn't pay bills."
- Russia Sports Minister Is Talking About Bidding To Host The Summer And Olympic Games Well they're currently sanctioned by the IOC so that isn't happening anytime soon unless they end the war with Ukraine.
What a great meet in front of 60,000. Click on the youtube player for our reactions. Or better yet, get it as a podcast by joining our SC.
*WA Recap Julien Alfred was sensational in the 200 (21.71, -0.6) as was Mykolas Alekna in the discus (71.70 DL),
- MB: London DL Live Thread
- London 800 - What a race - Wanyonyi (1:42.00) comes back on Arop (1:42.22) - Hoppel (1:42.71) over Brazier (1:43.08)
- Koech Is the REAL DEAL. Koech (3:28.82) over Kerr (3:29.37) FTW in London!!!
- What was that? Gudaf Tsegay runs like an IDIOT. Goes out in 59.93, Runs 4:11.89 mile! American Sinclaire Johnson got an American record of 4:16.32 for 4th.
- Oblique Seville (9.86, -0.6) DESTROYS London 100m field with Noah Lyles (10.00) and Tebogo (10.12)
- Sinclaire Johnson gets American record in 4:16:32!
Stumptown Twilight
BYU's Riley Chamberlain won the women's race in 1:59.75. Thomas Ratcliffe took the men's 1500m in 3:33.28 ahead of Benjamin Allen (3:33.97) and Parker Wolfe (3:34.44). Anna Camp-Bennett won the women's 1,500 meters in 4:05.38 while recent high school grad Sadie Engelhardt ran a PB of 4:07.78 in 8th (#4 on the prep all-time list). Elise Cranny won the 5000m in 15:06 and Allie Ostrander took the steeplechase by 35 seconds in 9:35.
Doping News
- British Men Get Their 1997 World 4x400 Gold Medals 28 Years Later They were moved up from silver to gold when the US team was DQ'd due to Antonio Pettigrew confessing to doping in 2008. After years of investigation and appeal, the medals were finally reallocated at the London DL on Saturday.
- Top 10 Kenyan Doping List Of Shame Ruth Chepngetich is the latest in a long line of big name Kenyans to get busted over the years
NCAA News
- DyeStat: "In The Aftermath Of Washington State's Cuts, Athletes Seek Belonging And Stability Elsewhere" The news that Washington State was cutting field events to focus on distance left many athletes blindsided and scrambling to make new plans for the upcoming year.
- Four Time D2 Pole Vault Champ And 2024 Olympian Brynn King Signs With Adidas She gives up her final indoor season of eligibility at Roberts Wesleyan University where she has been coached by Rick and Jenn Suhr.
- Former 400H US Record Holder And 1988 Olympian LaTanya Sheffield Named Director Of Track And Field/XC At Long Beach State
Championship Bidding News
- UK Government Backs London's Bid For 2029 World Champs The government has pledged $60 million to help the bid.
- Russia Sports Minister Is Talking About Bidding To Host The Summer And Olympic Games Well they're currently sanctioned by the IOC so that isn't happening anytime soon unless they end the war with Ukraine
Pre-London DL News
For the first time in more than three years, Donavan Brazier, who missed all of 2023 and 2024, will race on the Diamond League circuit. And if he runs well, it will be the first time since August 2019 that the former world champ breaks 1:50 in an official Diamond League 800.
- WA London preview: Donavan Brazier returns to the BIG TIME to take on Wanyonyi and Arop in epic 800 as Lyles and Bol look for London 3-peat It should be a great meet with a GREAT atmosphere.
- MB: Donavan Brazier returns to the Diamond League!
- Josh Kerr recently declared: "I would say I’m in the area of PB 1500m shape. I’m pretty excited about that and in a good spot for London Diamond League."
- London meet is already sold out - 60,000 fans will be in attendance
If it's too good to be true....
Suspicion of Chepngetich was sky high last October when she ran 2:09:56 in Chicago and now she's been popped.. But since Chepngetich tested positive for a masking agent, she could be competing again as soon as April 2027 even if her ban is upheld. Is that fair? Plus is the AIU nearing a breaking point with Federico Rosa and Kenya?
- Toni Reavis column on Ruth C's bust: Why don't agents, shoe sponsors or marathon Title sponsors do anything about the doping scourge Reavis correctly points out that just banning the athletes isn't working. What is agents were required to put up a bond to vouch fo athletes being clean?
- MB: Breaking: Marathon world record Ruth Chepngetich has tested positive - Will Kenya's Parliament apologize to yours truly?|
- 2024: Amby Burfoot says it out loud - Chepngetich is doping
- 2024: Kenyan parliament is currently discussing my questions of Ruth Chepngetich & are demanding that I apologize Remember when 13 members of Parliament went on a 20+ tirade ripping LetsRun for asking Chepngetich what she would say to people who thought her performace was too good to be true.
Sydney's Elite Men's Field is Released
The men's field has 9 guys who have broken 2:05, including 2 of 9 fastest men in history in Eliud Kipchoge and Birhanu Legese. It also has 15 who have equalled or broken Sydney's 2:06:17 course record. 2025 Sydney will clearly be the greatest non-Olympic marathon ever run in Australia. But what if we told you the field only includes one man who has finished in the top 3 at a major in 2024 or 2025 and zero men ranked in our top 10 for 2024?
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy
- No American man has ever medalled at Worlds in the hammer, Cornell grad Rudy Winkler hopes to be the first later in the year With his AR of 272-10 (83.16) and three other meets over 80m, TFN says he's a clear favorite for a medal.
- Is your bedtime holding you back? A recent study shoes "late bedtimes are directly linked to reduced physical activity the next day, regardless of how many hours you sleep.
- LSU just signed Abigael Chemnagei of Kenya Her 5000 pb of 15:29 is 15 seconds better than the LSU record.
- Nike announces which 43 athletes will be part of its NIL HS program for 2025 Top names include US HS leaders - Tate Taylor (100m and 200m); Cooper Lutkenahus (800m); Quentin Nauman (1,600m); Kendrick Joshua (400m hurdles); and Victor Olesen (Pole Vault).
The Latest Distance News
- While 21-yr-old Max Davies didn't quite beat NCAA champ Nathan Green (.07 short) he did break a 33-year-old U-23 national record The previous Canadian record of 3:35.27 was set by Winnipeg’s Graham Hood exactly 33 years earlier, on July 15, 1992.
- 21-year old Jae Ung Lee DESTROYS Korean 1500m record by 2+ seconds Lee's PB and NR coming into the race was 3:38.55. His PR coming into the year was 3:41.13.
*MB: Breaking: Korean men's 1500m national record has been DESTROYED..... Guess the time. - Recommended Read Toni Reavis loved how the MLB All-Stars were mic’d up and wants track and field to follow suit - A new way to feel track and field We loved it as well and think track should start interviewing active participants mid-competiton.
*MB: Toni Reavis LOVED how the MLB all-stars like C. Kershaw were mic'd up and talking while pitching and wants track to do the same - Rising 29-yr-old sophomore Solomon Kipchoge (59:37 half pb) has transferred from Texas Tech to Washington State Kipchoge had a tough initial year in the NCAA and somehow managed not to qualify for NCAAs in track or finish NCAAs in cross country.
- MB: Canadian resident arrested in hit & run death of world's oldest marathoner Fauja Singh - aka the "Turbaned Tornado" Singh, who finished a marathon at 100, received a lengthy tribute in the NY Times.
- Free Euro U-23 live stream
This Week's Pod
USAs are only 15 days away. Who will make the team? Jakob Ingebrigtsen is back training. How will he do at Worlds? Plus, Front Office Sports' Dennis Young joins us to discuss the state of pro track and field.
Administrative News
- Paul Tergat on hand as "King's baton" unveiled to announce count down to 2026 Commonwealth Games Only 373 days to go.
- Ten candidates have been announced for the six available seats on the World Athletics Athletes’ Commission European record holder Andreas Almgren is the most prominent of the candidates, none of which are Americans.
- Graham Blanks named Academic All-American, The voracious reader recently received his Harvard bachelor's degree in economics & philosophy but no GPA is cited.
- A bike equipped with an air quality sensor followed the leading runners in the women’s race at the Lagos Marathon in February and .... some of the city had a lot of pollution
- Feeling depressed? Excercise The NY Times points out all the drugs people are on are little better than a placebo.
Guest Column
Imagine a robot that can only run 60-second 400m pace. At what race distance could the world's best humans create the biggest gap? In 1962, Peter Snell became the first athlete to finish 15+ seconds ahead. Now we are approaching the 20-second barrier. Which current athletes are best-suited to break this "meta-barrier"? Andy Hardt gets nerdy and explores.
Jerome Classic
- Two-Time NCAA 1500m Champ Nathan Green Wins Pro Debut At The Jerome Classic He ran 3:34.97 to beat out Canadian Max Davies by just .07; Sam Prakel was third (3:36.10). Regan Yee won the women's 3000m in 8:47 (#12 on the Canada all-time list).
More Distance Stuff:
- British Steeplechase Record And Two-Time European Bronze Medalist Lizzie Bird Retires From Track At 30-Years-Old She finished 7th in the Paris Olympic steeple last year with a NR 9:04.35. She says she'll now focus on her legal career, but adds, "I’m not done with running and you might see me on the roads and/or trails."
- Keely Hodgkinson Announced For The Athlos NYC Meet This Fall Hodgkinson still hasn't raced at all since the Paris Olympics after she tore her hamstring in February.
- World Athletics Looks Back At When Kenya Swept The Men's Steeplechase At The 1997 World Championships Kenya has a long history of dominance in the men's steeple having won every Olympic title between 1968 and 2016 (except the years when they boycotted) and every world title between 1991 and 2019 (except 2003 and 2005 when Kenyan born Qatari Saif Saaeed Shaheen won).
European Field Event News
- Sergey Bubka Reminisces About First Breaking The 6 Meter Pole Vault Barrier 40 Years Ago Bubka talks about how he broke it at a meet he only competed in on a whim at the last minute. He says, "I warmed up and thought that I have a competition in Nice in two days so I don’t want to take too many jumps. I cleared 5.70m and Philippe Collet also cleared 5.70, but I took the lead and won the competition with 5.70m. I thought why do I need to jump 5.90m like I usually do, let’s try six meters."
- France's Decathlon WR Holder Kevin Mayer Will Miss 2025 Season Due To Injury This is more complications with the same injury that kept him out of the Paris Olympics.
- European Under-23 Champs Women's Field Preview European silver medalist (and world U20 champ) Angelina Topic leads the HJ.
Sprint Stuff
- BBC: British Sprinter Divine Iheme Was Faster Than Usain Bolt And Gout Gout Were At Age-14 Iheme has the 14-year-old age record for 100m at 10.30 seconds which he set last year. He is coached by his mother who says, "He knows that once we enter the track, I don't look at him as my son. I have to get down to business, so I take off motherhood and bring in the coach."
- World Athletics: Ten Athletes To Watch At Tokyo 2025 World Champs Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce races her last major championship while Gout Gout will race at his first.
- Olympic 100m Champ Julien Alfred Opens Up About Her Personal Life On Rare Ones Podcast She says she realized she needs hobbies and interests outside of track and is thinking about going back to school to study architecture. *Full Video Interview
- Baylor's Nathaniel Ezekiel And Michigan's Savannah Sutherland Win Bowerman Award Fan Vote And USTFCCCA Membership Vote The fan vote only counts towards a small portion of winning the overall award. Of the 30 past Bowerman winners, only 16 fan vote winners ended up winning the Bowerman Award.
Admin News
- Organizers Release Schedule For 2028 LA Olympic Games Track and field will start of the Games, running from July 15 to 24. The opening ceremony is on July 14th and the closing ceremony on July 30.
- Christian Taylor And Australia's Former Olympic 100H Champ Sally Pearson Named Ambassadors For Tokyo 2025 World Champs
- Jay Holder Named As USATF Chief Content And Communications Officer
- BBC Secures New Five-Year Deal For UK Athletics Coverage
Coaching / Recruiting News
- MB: Olympian And 2013 World Silver 800m Medalist Brenda Martinez Hired As New Assistant XC Coach At USC
- MB: Bernard Lagat Leaves Arizona Coaching Position After Disappointing Four Years Lagat's men's XC teams never finished higher than 7th in a conference final and the women never better than 9th.
- Missouri Announces Five Roster Signees Including Two Kenyans One Kenyan joining the team has PBs of 13:22 and 28:23.
- Tokyo Olympic Decathlon 4th Placer Garrett Scantling Hired As An Illinois Assistant Coach
- 2016 Shot Put Olympian Darrell Hill Joins Penn State Staff As An Assistant Coach
- Princeton Women's Track Announces 14 Recruits For The Class Of 2029
- State-By-State High School Track Coaches Of The Year
More Money Problems For GST
- Good Read: Front Office Sports: "Track’s New Money Is Running Into Old Problems" Dennis Young writes, "After the Paris Olympics, a flood of track—and mostly track, not track and field—start-ups were founded to capitalize on the quadrennial rush of interest in the sport. Start-ups like Barry Kahn’s Duael, Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track, and Alexis Ohanian’s Athlos promised deep pockets and prize money that offered the very best athletes a chance to cash real checks and the middle class a chance to earn a living. ...One year later, the track record of these start-ups is mixed at best."
- Gabby Thomas Comments "Pls pay me 😭" On GST TikTok Video
- Forbes: With Deadline Approaching, Grand Slam Track Still Owes Facility Rental Fee For Miami Meet GST currently owes the City of Miramar $77,896 for its facility rental from the Miami Slam.
*MB: More money problems for GST
More Recent Results
- European Weekend Round-Up: 2022 World 1500m Champ Jake Wightman Wins 800m In Italy (1:44.71) In Belgium, Pauline Hondema lept 6.91m to break the 11-year-old Dutch long jump record held by former world heptathlon bronze medalist and twice world 200m gold medalist Dafne Schippers.
*MB: Jake Wightman 1:44.71
*Full Lignano Sabbiadoro (ITA) Meet TV replay Winners included Jake Wightman (1:44.71), Bendere Oboya (2:00.04), and Kimbelry May (4:04.40). *Full Results - Kenyan John Korir (42:44) Repeats As Boiler Maker Champion; Kenya's Veronica Loleo Wins Women's Race (49:37) Korir finished 24 seconds ahead of runner-up Hillary Kipkoech with Abbabiya 'Biya' Simbassa 3rd (43:28) and Charles Hicks 6th (43:39). Loleo beat out last year's winner Grace Loibach Nawowuna by just three seconds. *Results
- MB: 43.85 man Randolph Ross runs his first race since returning from his 3-year ban, 45.41 in France He finished 2nd behind Demarius Smith (45.19).
- Edmonton Athletics Invitational Recap: Audrey Leduc Lowers Her Own Canadian 100m Record To 10.94; NCAA 400H Record Holder Wins Her Pro Debut In The Flat 400m (50.62) Christopher Morales Williams won the 400m in 44.85.
London Diamond League Is Saturday
- MB: Donavan Brazier returns to the Diamond League in London on July 19!
- Noah Lyles v. Letsile Tebogo Over 100m And Julien Alfred In The 200m Highlights Sprint Action At The London DL
- MB: LONDON DIAMOND LEAGUE START LISTS RELEASE
- Athletics Weekly Gives A Brief Event-By-Event Highlight Ahead Of The London DL
Tuesday Night
- Preview: Two-Time NCAA 1500m Champ Nathan Green Set To Make Pro Debut At Jerome Classic On Tuesday Up against former Washington teammates Joe Waskom, Leo Daschbach and Sam Ellis.
Not everyone can run Monaco - Ed Murphey Classic Was Saturday
The sprint times in Memphis were sensational. Former Olympic champ Athing Mu-Nikolayev wasn't sensational but she took a step in the right direction. *Full broadcast replay
- MB: Ed Murphy Streaming & Official Thread
- MB: QUINCY MF WILSON 44.10: "I went out there and shot out like a bullet."
- MB: Athng Mu-Nikolayev looks much better - Runs 2:00.42 for 6th at Ed Murphey Classic, Akins 2:00.76 for 8th
- MB: SML pulls out of Ed Murphey Classic - Who is shocked?
- MB: WILL SUMNER IS BACK THREAD He ran a big pb of 45.42 in the 400 out of lane 1.
- MB: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Pulled Out Of Ed Murphey Due To A Fever
Sunset Tour
Bailey Hertenstein (14:48.91 pb) outkicked Taylor Roe (14:49.91 pb) to win the 5k as Karissa Schweizer and Lauren Ryan also broke 15:00. American record holder Alicia Monson ran 15:01.63 in her return to racing. Meghan Hunter (1:58.21) won the 800, where 4 women ran 1:58. Navasky Anderson (1:44.40) won the men's 800, where Hobbs Kessler was only 4th (1:44.77). NCAA champ Brian Musau dominated the 5000 in a big 12:59.82 pb as Rocky Hansen also PR'd in 2nd in 13:07.77. Drew Hunter picked up a big win in the men's 1500 (3:33.41), winning by 0.46 while Josette Andrews crushed the women's field by nearly 2 seconds in 4:00.10 as Katelyn Tuohy ran 4:08.
- MB: Official 2025 Sunset Tour Live Discussion Thread
- MB: DREW MF HUNTER - 3:33.41 FTW at Sunset Tour
- MB: The Drew Hunter Dilemma
- MB: Alicia Monson comeback 15:01
- MB: 16 year old Sam Ruthe runs 3:39.17! He improved upon his own New Zealand U18 record.
- MB: Brian Musau 12:59, Rocky Hansen 13:07 @ Sunset Tour
Distance News
- Amanda Vestri Wins USATF 6k Champs In Ohio She won in 18:29 over a field that included Marathon Trials winner Fiona O'Keeffe (3rd, 18:38) and former NCAA XC champ Edna Kurgat (5th, 19:04). *Results
- MB: Jordan Hasay Has A Son She gave birth to her first child, Micah Leighton Hogan, on July 5th after her water broke while running on July 4th. Congrats to the happy family!
- MB: Sad News - Former Georgia Gatorade Runner Of The Year (FSU Freshman) Passes Away
Doping News
- Can AI Help Detect Sports Doping? Scientists believe AI can help "find patterns that are hard to detect by humans" with respect to the Athlete Biological Passport which monitors biological variables over time. However, they also think cheats are already using AI to beat existing doping tests.
- Tokyo Olympic 4x4 Gold Medalist Randolph Ross Is Returning To Competition After 3-Year Doping Ban Ross was banned in 2022 for missing three out-of-competition tests and then "tampering" with the date on an email to try and get out of it.
- In Swimming, Russian And Chinese Athletes Were Tested Twice As Much As Other Countries This Year
Distance News
- Keely Hodgkinson Withdraws From The London Diamond League Hodgkinson still hasn't opened her outdoor season and actually hasn't raced since winning Olympic 800m gold in Paris last year. She says she's back in full training after suffering a minor injury setback in June.
- High School Phenom Jane Hedengren Gives Some Good Advice On Going For It Even When You Don't Feel 100% Talking about breaking the national 3000m record at Nike Outdoor Nationals even though her body felt "a bit wrecked" she said, "It was great to have that experience and to know that I can still be tough and really work my way through the race even when the conditions aren’t perfect, because oftentimes they won’t be perfect. That’s the beauty of it—I don’t think they should be perfect and if you’re chasing perfection, you’re just going to be disappointed and fragile."
- MB: Villanova's Marco Langon Wins Cork City Mile In 3:54.59 With Early Celebration (Video)
- Ireland's Cian McPhillips Runs Big 1:44.19 PB To Win Morton Games 800m In Dublin Moves him to #2 on the Irish all-time list. Lithuania's Gabija Galvdyte won the women's 1500m in 4:00.71 ahead of Canada’s Gabriela DeBues-Stafford (4:01.19).
The men's 800 was better than the Olympic final and Wanyonyi showed why he's the Olympc champ. Wanyonyi now has six career sub-1:42s in the 800, one shy of David Rudisha's record, while Hoey is now 5-0 against rival Bryce Hoppel in 2025. In the 1k, Nelly Jepchirchir got the win in 2:29.77 as Addy Wiley broke her own AR. Yomif Kejelcha dominated the 5k. In the 400h, Femke Bol has also had a world lead (51.95). In the 5 also were world leads in the Jordan Scott (17.44 tj), Woo Sanghyeok (2.34 hj) *Youtube show *WA Recap
- Monaco Talk: Monaco Diamond League Official Thread
- Josh Hoey 1:42.01!
- Wiley another AR - 1000!
- Did we just witness the dirtiest 800m in history?
- Kejelcha most underrated distance runner OAT. He should be lauded like Pre.
- What was Arop thinking? 25.6, 51.2
- Don't doubt Noah in the 200!
Sad News: RIP
- Texas XC Runner Chloe Childress Died In Recent Floods She was a counselor at Camp Mystic, where 27 campers and counselors died in the flood.
- 60-Year-Old Michigan Trail Runner Dies During The Hardrock 100 The Hardrock 100 is known as one of the most difficult 100-mile trail runs in the world with 33,197 feet of elevation gain and descent and an average elevation of 11,000 feet.
Gender Battles Continue
- European Court Of Human Rights Rules That Caster Semenya Did Not Get A Fair Hearing In Her Appeal To The Switzerland Supreme Court They said Semenya had some of her rights to a fair hearing violated, but declined to rule on several aspects of her case including whether or not she was discriminated against. Her case will now go back to the Swiss courts. The ECHR ruling does not overturn any World Athletics rules, but it did award Semenya $94,000 from Switzerland for "costs and expenses."
- Trump Administration Sues California Over Allowing Men To Compete In Women's Sports The lawsuit alleges that California’s transgender athlete law violates Title IX and cites governor Gavin Newsom’s comment earlier this year that it was “deeply unfair” for transgender athletes to compete in girls sports.
European Under-23 Champs Are Next Week
- Niels Laros Tops 10 Athletes To Watch List At The European U23 Champs Next Week Laros is running a very interesting 800m/5000m double.
- Euro U23 Champs Men's Track Preview Niels Laros faces Ireland's Nick Griggs in the 5000m and eight sub-1:45 runners in the 800m.
- Euro U23 Champs Men's Field Preview
- Euro U23 Women's Track Preview Switzerland 800m Audrey Werro highlights the distance action coming in as #3 in the world this year thanks to her 1:57.25.
Stars in the News
- SAFP gets cover treatment by Marie Clarie and finally talks about why she didn't show up for her Olympic 100m semi After the two-time Olympic 100m champ was denied entrance to the warmup track, things spiraled out of control.
- MB: Jakob Ingebrigtens pulls out of showdown with Josh Kerr on July 19th in London Since he was shown cross training on June 20th, this is far from a shock. “Jakob still needs a little more time to heal the injury he has been struggling with lately. He would have liked to have participated in London, but does not want to risk anything. He must therefore sit out the event.”
- A ruling this week in the Caster Semenya case could reignite the issue of sex eligibility in sports In our minds, this isn't that complicated. Only biological females should be allowed to compete in women's sports. Semenya was a rare case of someone actually being assigned the wrong sex at birth based on her genitalia. PS. The idea that the "European Court of Human Rights" has spent 2+ years on this when Semenya is South African is wild.
The Latest Distance News
- MB: Parker Wolfe signs with Nike, will join Ethan Stand in Flagstaff and be coached by Mike Smith
*MB: Which PARKER Has Brighter Running Future? Valby or Wolfe - 2-time European U20 cross country champion and 19-yr-old vegan Innes FitzGerald blogs about her 1st DL appearance in Stockholm where she surprisingly finished 3rd in 8:32 She only got into the meet as an alternate.
- World record holders Kipyegon and Chebet call on Kenya to improve its facilities “When I was preparing to go and try to be the first woman to run under four minutes, I went through a lot, I was so disappointed that Kipchoge Stadium was closed. Sometimes I feel so emotional to talk about it,” said faith Kipyegon. “We don’t request a lot. Only a track,” says Chebet. “We achieved sub-14, sub-3:49 on a murram track. Just imagine what we can do with proper ones.”
- Arthurd Lydiard was born 108 years ago - what is his legacy?
Plus the coaching merry-go-round among the top US women's 1500 runners this year and thoughts on the NBC broadcast, which disappointed.
- MB Awful Announcing on PRE Broadcast
- MB NBC "story" vs. international feed "race"
- Trackerati: Prefontaine Classic was not just sold out - it was rocking and fairly young - “It felt like 1972 again.” “This was a young crowd,” noted Bruce Mortensen, the 1965 NCAA steeplechase champion for Oregon.
More Post Pre News
- When you factor in wind, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden's 10.75 (-1.4) at Pre was the 7th best 100m ever run by a woman. And only 4 women have ever run faster if you factor in wind.
- 2019 NCAA xc champ Edwin Kurgat realizes he's got a lot of work to do before Worlds after punching ticket to Worlds at Pre as top Kenyan He's correct as he was only 5th at Doha DL, 6th at GST Philly and 4th at Pre.
- BBC's Sportsworld interviews Cole Hocker for 45 minutes - How Cole Hocker won Olympic 1500m gold Around the 45 minute mark, he still speaks positively about GST even though LA was cancelled and many athletes haven't been paid.
*MB: Cole Hocker: "There's nothing up for debate. Olympic record, Olympic gold. I don't even care how people view me. I know what I've done at that point." - New Mexico's Ishmael Kipkurui went pro with Nike and then promptly made the Kenyan WC team
Other News That Passed Our Human Filter
3 finalists for women's Bowerman award named and they are all very deserving - Fan voting now open What a trio. Pamela Kosgei was undefeated outdoors, won 2 NCAA titles, and ran the #2 time ever in the 5k and 10k. Doris Lemngole SHATTERED the steeple record and broke 9:00. Savannah Sutherland ran 52.46 in the 400h and broke SML's NCAA record.
*Fan voting now open and runs through Thursday, 2 p.m. ET
- Bowerman's men's finalists named - all sprinters Jordan Anthony won the 60/100m for Arkansas and ran a windy 9.75, while Baylor's Nathaniel Ezekiel ran 47.49 and won the 400h. Auburn's Ja’Kobe Tharp ran 13.05 and won tbh 110h.
- Jamaica tried and failed to qualify for Worlds over the weekend in the men's 4 x 100 and mixed 4 x 400 The men's team didn't have Thompson obviously and ran 38.46 seconds, falling short of the 38.20 qualifying mark. The 4 x 400 clocked 3:15.06 in their win — well short of the 3:11.00 needed.
Sifan Hassan Stepping Way Down In Distance Later This Month
- Sifan Hassan Announced For London Diamond League Mile On July 19 Hassan said she's moving back down from the road to shorter distances for the track season explaining, "Last year my curiosity pushed me to take a risk and compete in three distances at the Paris Games. I know I’m probably a bit crazy to mix it up so much, but I like the combination of track and road and I want to see what is possible."
Non-Distance News
- Greece's European Indoor Champ Emmanouil Karalis wins Fly Athens PV meet with 6.00m GB's Molly Caudery won the women's with 4.80m.
- 2021 world jr champ Imaobong Nse Uko of Baylor blames Nigerian federation for her whereabouts ban “I struggled for months with the online system meant to report my whereabouts,” Uko wrote. “Despite reaching out to AFN repeatedly for help, I was met with excuses and silence. When I was ultimately suspended, I was devastated.”
- Mississippi State's NCAA Decathlon champ Peyton Bair transferring to Oregon Bair also won the heptathlon at NCAA Indoors and is just the 7th male to win both multi events in the same year. Oregon now has landed him and the decathlon WR holder in the discus.
- Puerto Rico’s Ayden Owens-Delerme (8478 Points) and Colombia’s Martha Araujo (6451 Points) win Decastar multin Talence
- Former Oregon, current Texas HJer Osawese Agbonkonkon has published a sci-fi book You can check out Psychic Suit here.
More News Of Note
- India To Bid For Both 2029 And 2031 World Championships World Athletics will announce the host of both those championships in September 2026.
- New Short Film Focuses On The "Real Heroes" Who Finish At The Back Of The Pack At The NYC Marathon Talking about the recent string of Netflix series that follow elite athletes from various sports (like Drive To Survive and Sprint) one amateur runner from the film said, “That’s kind of boring. It’s just another guy who figured out what he was best at in middle school, and didn’t go to high school with normal kids, and maybe went to college, and dropped out and became a millionaire tennis player.”
- Washington State AD Claims Cutting Program To Mostly Distance Wasn't For "Financial Reasons" She said, "The decision was made not for financial reasons as much as for competitive success and the ability to provide a high-level experience." But one would think if finances weren't an issue, they'd be able to afford to provide a high-level experience for all event groups.
- Shannon Rowbury Officially Upgraded To 2012 Olympic 1500m Bronze By The IOC We've known this was coming since last year when Russian Tatyana Tomashova was banned, but now the IOC has officially updated the results.
- New Women-Only Event At GB's Crystal Palace Will Combine A Fashion Show And A Track Meet The athletes will be take part in the fashion show before competing on the track.
Laros edged out Yared Nuguse by .01 in a thrilling Bowerman Mile while Mu finished last in her return to the 800 in 2:03.44.
For the first time in 32 years, two outdoor women's distance world records on the track fell on the same day. Chebet is the first woman under 14:00 for 5000m on the track while Kipyegon broke the 1500 record for the third time. *WA Recap
*Cornell grad Rudy Winkler breaks US and Diamond League record with 83.16m heave in hammer
What a meet. Full results as well as race replays.
Pre on the MB
- Official 2025 Prefontaine Classic Discussion Thread
- Niels MF Laros. Steals it from Nuguse. Bowerman mile win 3:45.94!!! Nuguse WENT for it but tied up and got nipped at the line. Hocker 4:37. Fisher 3:48.'
- Jefferson-Wooden (10.75) takes down Alfred (10.77) at 2025 Prefontaine Classic as Sha'Carri Richardson is DFL - 11.19
- Athing Mu-Nikolayev looks HORRIBLE. Runs 2:03.44 for DFL. Dugume wins in 1:57.20.
- To the women just lapped in the Pre Classic 5000, please turn in your pro cards What a race. Chebet led the whole thing and ran 13:58.06 WR!!
- Owen Powell 3:58.12 @ Pre Ethan Strand DOMINATED the B mile in 3:48.
- The Bowerman Mile has been bumped: 2025 Pre Classic will now finish with the women's 1500 -- WR incoming for Faith Kipyegon?
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Protecting Women's Sport
- Trump Administration Releases $175 Million In Federal Funding To UPenn After They Erase The Records Of Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas UPenn President J. Larry Jameson also said they "will apologize to those who experienced a competitive disadvantage or experienced anxiety because of the policies in effect at the time."
*MB: Donald Trump 1: U Penn 0. Penn agrees to remove Lia Thomas from school record books. - New IOC President Kirsty Coventry Says The IOC Will Actually Take A Stance On Trans Issue Previously the IOC left it up to individual sport federations, but now is working to establish an overall policy. It's very simple, hopefully they don't screw it up.
Non-Pre Weekend Action
- Japan's Yuki Takei Wins Gold Coast Marathon In Course Record 2:07:33 Japanese men took the first 6 spots while Ethiopia's Tegest Ymer won the women's race in 2:29:27.
- The Netherlands' Minke Bisschops Runs 10.89/22.39 Sprint Double In Greece The 100m was wind-aided (3.2m/s).
- Kenya’s Valentine Jepkoech Rutto Wins Uphill And Classic Mountain Race Double In China On the men's side, Germany’s Lukas Ehrle won the uphill race and Kenya’s Michael Selelo took the classic race.
- Puerto Rico’s Ayden Owens-Delerme And USA’s Taliyah Brooks Lead After Day 1 Of Decastar Multi-Event Meet In Talence, France
Outside Pre Coverage
- Mondo Duplantis Narrowly Misses Breaking His Own PV WR At Pre He took three attempts, but said the wind at Hayward made it difficult. “Sometimes the wind was unbelievably good. I was excited to use the pole I was on for my last attempt. But it wasn’t really as good of a wind as my first two attempts. It was a bit unfortunate.”
- World Athletics Full Pre Classic Recap
- Kishane Thompson Dominates Pre 100m In 9.85 Ahead Of Zharnel Hughes And Trayvon Bromell
- USA Today: Sha'Carri Richardson Finishes 9th (DFL) In Pre 100m
- DyeStat: From Spectacular To Sublime To Surprising, Performances Dazzle At 50th Prefontaine Classic
- The Register Guard Shares Their Best Photos From Pre
Track Drama
- Inside Source Says Grand Slam Track Still Owes Athletes $13 Million In Prize Money And Appearance Fees One source said that the GST isn't taking much longer than the Diamond League to send out payments, but rival track meet, Athlos, says they paid athletes in "just a few business days" after the meet.
- MB: USATF is SUING its former Board chair Mike Conley. This could get REAL interesting. Former USATF board member Jim Estes is suing USATF over the mess that was the disqualification of Chattanooga from the 2024 Marathon Trials bidding. USATF is suing Conley, alleging that he colluded with Estes and has refused USATF's request for documents, impeding their ability to defend themselves in the Estes lawsuit.
Distance News
- Ireland's European 1500m Champ Ciara Mageean Has Been Diagnosed With Cancer She posted the news on Instagram and revealed she's already started treatment.
*MB: Ciara Mageean diagnosed with cancer - Andy Buchanan Sets Australia All-Comers' Record With 61:08 Win At The Gold Coast Half-Marathon He won in a close race with Japanese runners Kenya Sonota (61:10) and Naoya Sakuda (61:11). Aussie Leanne Pompeani won the women's race in 69:14.
- Sarah Tait, The First Recipient Of Eilish McColgan's "Giving Back to Track" Program Ended Up Breaking Her Scottish Steeplechase Record Tait ran 9:27 to finish 4th at NCAA Champs this year.
- World Athletics Ratifies Tigist Assefa's 2:15:50 "Women's Only" Marathon World Record She won the London Marathon this year which has a separate start for women (as opposed to the Chicago Marathon where Ruth Chepngetich ran her 2:09:56 alongside the men).
RIP To A Legend
As an athlete, Dellinger, 91, was an NCAA champion, American record holder, world record holder and Olympic medalist As a coach, he won four NCAA XC titles as coach at the University of Oregon, where he coached legendary athletes such as Steve Prefontaine, Alberto Salazar, and Matt Centrowitz.
Meet Phanuel Koech
Koech's coach Claudio Berardelli says his talent could be comparable to that of his two biggest stars, marathoner Sabastian Sawe and Olympic 800m champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi. "I’m still trying to figure out exactly what happened and what is the potential of this boy," Berardelli said.
Breaking-4
Kipyegon gave it a go but after hitting 1200 in 3:01.84 (4:03.82 mile pace), she faded to a 63-second last lap. *Full race video
- MB: Faith Kipyegon breaking-4 official discussion thread
- MB: I've timed it twice - I'm pretty sure Faith Kipyegon didn't run a 4:06.42 mile today in Paris. What was here real time?
- MB: What did Nike actually spend on the sub 4 mile attempt? The numbers we are hearing may shock you.
- MB: Nike claims that in a pre-race test, another Nike pro ran 3% faster in mile with pacers and speedsuit. So what happened?
- MB: This Faith Kipyegon thing illustrates something that really bothers me with how women are marketed to/treated in general
- MB: Whoever came up with the idea of Faith Kipyegon breaking 4min should be fired
- MB: Faith Kipyegon Not Even Close to Sub 4
Non-LRC coverage Breaking 4 Coverage
- Toni Reavis: You can't hurry love - or, a 4-minute mile "Ater Paris today, we—at least, I—didn’t come away thinking a sub-4-minute mile is imminent for women. In fact, it seems to have quite a long way to go."
- Outside: Faith Kipyegon Didn’t Break the 4-Minute Mile. But She Ran a Damn Good Race.
- NY Times: Faith Kipyegon falls short in attempt to break four-minute mile
- Independent: Faith Kipyegon agonisingly close to Breaking 4-minute mile goal We can't believe multiple media outlets acted like she was close.
- The Guardian: Faith not enough as Kipyegon misses four-minute mile barrier by six seconds
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Freeman found incredible success in an event that has often plagued American relay squads, but USATF chose not to renew her contract at the end of 2024. Why? Jonathan Gault investigates.
The 800 Gets LetsRun Love
The 800 Gets LetsRun Love
Kersee doesn't talk often to the media but he talked to our Jonathan Gault about his plans for Athing Mu. Kersee said he believes racing the 1500 will help make Mu a better 800 runner but said he also hopes she can run more 400s moving forward and that she can eventually break 49 seconds in that event.
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." (SC paywall lifted)
Portland Track Festival - Brazier's Back Baby!
Donavan Brazier is running in the 1:43s after only 2 races in his comeback. This one was a beautiful victory that reminded us of the Brazier of old. In other action, former high school phenoms Katelyn Tuohy and Drew Hunter got wins, as current high schoolers Owen Powell and Josiah Tostenson ran 3:36 (#2 and #3 on the HS all-time list). Justyn Knight and Luis Grijalva returned to action.
- MB: DONNY MF BRAZIER: In case you weren't convinced. He's officially, officially back. 1:43.81 negative split
- DyeStat Recap: "Donavan Brazier Makes Triumphant Return To Portland Track Festival With Fastest Time Since 2020"
- MB: Owen Powell and Josiah Testosterone 3:36
- MB: Katelyn Touhy 15:04
- Donavan Brazier Video Interview
- Portland Track Festival Day 1 Results UA Dark Sky's Isaac Updike (8:13) and Gracie Hyde (9:24) won the steeplechases. NAZ Elite's Abby Nichols (31:52) took the women's 10,000m.
GST LA Cancelled
After the most successful meet of the year in Philly, there will be no meet #4 in 2025 as it was abruptly cancelled 2 weeks before it was to take place. GST did not give a reason for the cancellation, but claimed there will be a meet in 2026 in LA.
World XC Will Be Here Before You Know It - Make Your Travel Plans Now
This is a good idea as you'll save money and have a built in crowd. Plus you'll expose the current edition of US HS talents to the pros. The event will be used to pick the team for the World XC champs to be held in Tallahassee in January 2026. For the U20 teams, the top four finishers at USAs will get a spot, with the final two spots reserved for the NXN and Foot Locker champions.
Who?
Jonah Koech wasn't even supposed to be in Sunday's 1500. As they approached the bell, he was in 13th out of 17. A lap later, he was the champion. He is just the third American man to win a Diamond League 1500/mile and the first runner sponsored by Under Armour to win a DL race. His 3:37.27 pre-race pb is also the slowest of any man to win a DL 1500/mile.
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."
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 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.
Your latest American stars share their insights.
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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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