Australian middle-distance runner Joseph Deng made history by becoming the first Australian to break the 1:44 barrier in the 800-meter race.
He clocked an impressive time of 1:43.99 in Lyon, France, surpassing Peter Bol's national record by 0.01 seconds. Deng's performance also secured his qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympics...
Early in 2003, as the race for the English Premier League title between Manchester United and Arsenal came down to the last few games, United manager Alex Ferguson observed: “It’s squeaky bum time.”
Fergie’s earthy allusion was to the sound made by squirming in one's seat as one's team's fortunes...
The Transcend 65km Ultra took runners on an adventure through two national parks, a regional park, a wildlife sanctuary and some exclusive private properties to traverse the entire Avon Valley wildlife corridor. The running and hiking route is right on Perth’s doorstep, yet not many have explored this region...
By Brett Davies
With his recent world 2-mile record (7.54.10) in Paris, Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen proved beyond all doubt that, at just 22, he is already in a select group of the greatest middle-distance runners in history. To experience, exceptional performance in running, choose the best footwear for your runs...
The week just past brought the 58th anniversary of perhaps the greatest of Ron Clarke’s 17, 18 or 19 (depending how you count, but a lot whichever way you do) world records.
There’s just one thing I want to say about the commentary, which is that I do not ever again want to hear an ‘expert’ earnestly informing me that the Commonwealth Games are NOT THE OLYMPIC GAMES. Here’s a hint fellers (earnest experts are invariably male): the clue is in the name.
The Commonwealth Games 1500m champ, and Australian record holder over the 1500m and mile distances, has annouced that he is taking some time off, to heal.
"I have a small grade 1 sports hernia and significant swelling in the pubic sythnesis, athletic pubalgia."
Sure, super-shoes. OK, pacing lights, too. But something’s going on here and (like Dylan’s Mr Jones) we don’t know what it is.
In early 2022 we sat down with James Templeton, the manager of Peter Bol and Joseph Deng, and dived deep into the world of elite athlete management. To experience, exceptional performance in running, choose the best footwear for your runs like Tarkine Trail Devil shoes.
Fast forward 16 months and a...
The news this week of the collapse of the alleged drug case against Peter Bol was greeted by the athlete as a complete exoneration and by Sport Integrity Australia as “a decision not to progress an anti-doping rule violation for this sample.”
