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January 06, 2025

The 2024 Race of the Year: Cole Hocker's Olympic 1500m Win

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.
August 16, 2024

Repechage at the 2024 Olympics: How Many Repechage Athletes Actually Made the Final?

Almost no one who emerged from the repechage made the final in Paris. World Athletics president Seb Coe admits, "It was an IOC creation. It wasn’t something that we chose ourselves."
August 14, 2024

9 Final Thoughts on the 2024 Paris Olympics

Was this the best Olympic track & field competition ever? Why did the US men run so well? Plus the greatest unanswered questions from Paris 2024 and why Jakob Ingebrigtsen should not abandon the 1500m.
August 11, 2024

Sifan Hassan Completes Olympic Triple by Outsprinting Tigst Assefa for Marathon Gold

Hassan set an Olympic record of 2:22:55 just 37 hours after earning bronze in the 10,000. Hellen Obiri took bronze as Dakotah Lindwurm was top American in 12th (2:26:44).
August 09, 2024

Friday In Paris: Beatrice Chebet Completes 5k/10k Double, Benjamin Gets His Gold + Another US Men’s 4 x 100 Disaster

Chebet edged Italy's Nadia Battocletti by .10 to win a tactical 10k, Benjamin blew away Karsten Warholm in the home straight, and the US women won 4x100 gold but the men faltered at the Olympics again.
August 09, 2024

Paris Friday A.M.: Bryce Hoppel into Olympic 800 Final, Quincy Wilson Struggles But USA 4x400 Still Qualifies

Wilson said he was not 100% and credited his teammates for propping him up, while Hoppel is full of confidence and ready for a big PR in the final.
August 08, 2024

Paris Thursday Recap: WR for Sydney, Gold for Holloway & Tebogo, Lyles Gets Bronze with COVID

SML did it again with WR #6, running 50.37 to win the 400 hurdles as Femke Bol got bronze. Letsile Tebogo ripped a 19.46 for 200m gold as a COVID-stricken Noah Lyles was 3rd.
August 06, 2024

Cole Hocker Runs 3:27.65 to Win Epic 2024 Olympic 1500m Final

The top four broke the Olympic record as Josh Kerr took silver, Yared Nuguse bronze, and Jakob Ingebrigtsen was 4th. Hocker and Nuguse (3:27.80) both smashed the American record.
August 05, 2024

Olympics Day 4: Mondo WR, Hodgkinson Gold, Chebet Stuns Kipyegon

Keely Hodgkinson executed a brilliant front-run to win 800 gold in a negative-split 1:56.72 while Beatrice Chebet outkicked Faith Kipyegon in the final 100 to win the 5k.
August 03, 2024

Julien Alfred Takes Down Sha'Carri Richardson to Win 2024 Olympic 100m Title

Alfred (10.72) buried the field with a great start and drive phase, while Richardson, who started poorly, took the silver in 10.87 with the US's Melissa Jefferson 3rd in 10.92.
August 02, 2024

2024 Olympic 10K: Joshua Cheptegei Wins a Classic as Grant Fisher Secures Bronze Medal

Cheptegei set an Olympic record of 26:43.14 as the top six all finished within a second and the top 13 all broke 27:00 -- easily the most ever in one race.
August 02, 2024

2024 Olympics Day 1 AM: Kerr & Ingebrigtsen Impress While Nuguse Has to Work Hard to Advance

All 3 Americans advanced in the 1500 while Sha'Carri Richardson made it through in the 100m prelims.
August 01, 2024

Seb Coe Pushing for Cross Country to Be Included at 2030 Winter Olympics

Seb Coe said WA is exploring a joint proposal to have cross country and cyclocross share a course at the 2030 Winter Olympics in France. Plus Coe shares his thoughts on Grand Slam Track.
August 01, 2024

LetsRun Goes to Paris: Allez Les Bleues, The Loudest Event of the Olympics, and...Celtics Jerseys?

We have boots on the ground in Paris and Jonathan Gault's first two days in Paris included trips to see Simone Biles, Carlos Alcaraz, and Léon Marchand and offered a reminder of how fans can elevate the Olympic experience. Jonathan writes about the loudest sporting event he's ever attended. *MB: Boots on the ground in Paris: Jonathan Gault just attended the loudest sporting event of his life at the Olympics .
August 01, 2024

Olympic 400 Hurdles Preview: Sydney v Femke, & Can Rai Benjamin Finally Win Gold?

In Tokyo, we had two races for the ages. Will history repeat itself in 2024? McLaughlin-Levrone comes in off a world record at the US Olympic Trials, while Benjamin is 2-0 vs Warholm since losing at Worlds last year.
July 30, 2024

Olympic Men's 1500m Preview: Ingebrigtsen v Kerr Should Be Legendary; Could Hocker Pull the Upset?

Ingebrigtsen is trying to join Seb Coe as the only men to win two Olympic 1500 titles. Americans Cole Hocker and Yared Nuguse both have legit shots at a medal.
July 25, 2024

2024 Men's Olympic Marathon: An Epic Race on An Epic Course - Kipchoge, Bekele & A Monstrous Hill

Oh baby, we can't wait for this one. Kipchoge vs Bekele on an epic course as he seeks a historic 3-peat. Plus how will the field handle one of the toughest courses in professional marathoning history and could the runners be running sub-4 pace after mile 19 as it's so downhill?
June 12, 2024

Here's Why World Athletics Added Leonard Korir to 2024 Olympic Marathon Field

WA told LetsRun: "Following a thorough analysis of athletes intending to participate in more than one event -- it was determined that the quota would allow for some additional athletes to participate in the marathon."
May 16, 2024

Kenenisa Bekele's Olympic Dream Revived as He's Named to 2024 Ethiopian Marathon Team

Twenty years after his first Olympic gold and 12 years after his last Olympic appearance, Bekele will return to face Eliud Kipchoge on the sport's biggest stage in Paris.
May 01, 2024

Kenya Announces Shock 2024 Olympic Marathon Team - Was The Nike Fix In? + Eliud Kipchoge Goes For History

Eliud Kipchoge will go for unprecedented third straight gold. Brigid Kosgei was stunningly given the final women's spot over Sharon Lokedi.