The 10,000 meters might be attenuated drama by its very nature, but 25 laps leading to a margin of victory of just one-tenth of a second? If that doesn’t raise the hairs on the back of your neck, check your vital signs.
On the last night in the Olympic stadium, everything’s a highlight. Every event is a final, that’s more than half of it. But each event is further tinged in the sentimental hue that this is closing night.
It took until the very last event on the program for the athlete of Paris 2024 to emerge. And it took until the very last metres of the 42 thousand, 195 metres (plus a metre per kilometre to ensure there is no under-distance measurement) before it became clear Sifan Hassan was going to win the women’s marathon.
Patrick Tiernan's journey as an athlete began in Queensland, Australia, where he discovered his talent for distance running. He gained prominence at Villanova University, winning the 2016 NCAA Cross Country Championship. Tiernan set a national record by finishing the Chevron Houston Marathon in 2:07:45, becoming the fastest Australian in an Olympic marathon. Recently, he clocked 2:10:34 in Paris, further solidifying his status as Australia's fastest marathoner at the Olympic Games.
In a famous case before the Australian High Court Justice Lionel Murphy, in arguing that the conviction of an indigenous activist should be overturned, wrote: “Mr Neal is entitled to be an agitator.”
Timing a return to post-Olympic competition is somewhat analogous to Goldilocks’ porridge: too early for some, too late for others, just right for some other ‘others’
For a few, it was just too much to contemplate.
Olympic 5000m champion Beatrice Chebet, former 800m Wanda Diamond League champion Mary Moraa, and 400m hurdles silver medallist Karsten Warholm are set to showcase their talents at the upcoming Weltklasse Zurich meet, the second-to-last event in this year’s Wanda Diamond League series.
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Australia’s Delta Amidzovski has leapt into the history books at the 2024 World Athletics Under 20 Championships in Lima, securing gold and the nation’s first global women’s long jump medal at the Under 20 level or above, while Marley Raikiwasa launched to bronze in the Discus Throw on Day Two.
A disturbing image it is, though I have no personal knowledge I hasten to add. But let me take you back to those early 20th century days. The Hobart Harriers and New Town Harriers had just been formed in the capital. Launceston Harriers quickly followed an early example of anything that happens in the south of Tasmania is quickly replicated in the north. And vice versa.
