The NCAA has a nice rotation of xc and indoor hosts and XC is heading back to Terre Haute for the 1st time in 7 years, but outdoors the NCAA continues to choose nothing but Eugene.

Our Jonathan Gault has the inside scoop on the NCAA XC action. Does Villanova have a potential NCAA champion you've never heard of? What's up with the top American returner who didn't race this weekend? How do you get a Kenyan eligible when they show up at the end of September? All hail the Big 12 as the BYU and Iowa State men impressed and could the OK State men be even better than 2023? Plus Stanford was resurgent.

Alexis Ohanian's inaugural female only Athlos track meet got rave reviews from the athletes and entertained the fans in New York on Thursday. Will it be a long-term success?

Miss the meet? Watch all the races in less than 8 minutes without knowing the results. *Full Results

Can the NAU women overcome last year's disappointment and send coach Mike Smith out as a champion in his final year? Plus a loaded BYU team looks to put a bad day in '23 behind them, and does NC State have any chance at a four-peat?

Oregon finished in the top 10 a year ago under Shalane Flanagan and Jerry Schumacher and will look to improve in '24. Plus meet the new NCAA superstar who earned bronze in the U20 race at World XC and is the sister of a former WR holder. And how about some love for Lipscomb, who finished 11th last year with no transfers and no foreigners? *MB: How about some love for Lipscomb and coach Nick Polk? They were 11th at NCAAs with no transfers and no foreigners.

We'll get Ingebrigtsen v Hocker v Nuguse in the 1500 for the last time in 2024. Plus what to make of Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone's 200/400 double.

This meet is incredible. A Paris 100m rematdch between Sha'Carri and Julien Alfred. Ingebrigtsen v Hocker v Kerr v Nuguse should make for a memorable 1500, while Beatrice Chebet looks to finish off arguably the greatest women's distance season ever - World xc gold, Olympic 5 and 10,000 gold and world records at 5000 and 10,000, breaking 14:00 and 30:00 in both.

The rules say that to receive a wild-card entry to the DL final, you must have competed in a DL regular season meet, but SML has not done that.

Letsile Tebogo celebrated early and still ran 9.87 to win the 100 as Winfred Yavi ran 8:44.39 to miss the women’s steeple world record by .07. *Full results*WA Full meet recap

Australia has one of its best U20 teams ever with 800m Olympians Peyton Craig and Claudia Hollingsworth and 1500 phenom Cameron Myers.

Smith won five NCAA XC titles from 2017-22 but will leave the school at the end of the 2024-25 school year.

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The Diamond League returns this week with Lausanne on Thursday and Silesia on Sunday. Here's what you need to know.

Conner Mantz & Clayton Young lead the US men's field, while Hellen Obiri will defend her women's title. Is the title of World #1 at stake in the men's race?

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.

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).

Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Faith Kipyegon are nearly untouchable in the 5000 and 1500 respectively and they showed that as Grant Fisher picked up medal #2 from Paris.