By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom
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EUGENE, OR (06-Jul) -- Wearing the Nike Bowerman Track Club uniform for the first time here Monday, Courtney Frerichs felt like everything had come full circle at the USA Olympic Trials at historic Hayward Field. Cruising easily through here...
Over the past two days (4-5) in Amsterdam, an IAAF Governance Structure Reform Forum attended by more than 60 delegates, including federation presidents, administrators and athletes representing the six continental areas of the IAAF, has been discussing 15 key proposals to create an effective organisation with the checks and...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom
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EUGENE, OR (04-Jul) -- There is a saying that the USA Olympic Trials are more about heartbreak than happiness.
Such was the case this afternoon in the women's 800m, where a pair of Olympic contenders were tripped up while three...
The Olympic champion, Jared Tallent (Vic), has today been announced as Athletics Team Captain for Rio 2016, replacing the injured Sally Pearson (Qld).
A three-time medallist from Beijing 2008 and London 2012, Tallent is Australia’s most successful male athlete at the Olympic Games, with his international resume also boasting podium...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom
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EUGENE, OR (03-Jul) -- If Kate Grace had a theme song at these Olympic Trials, it would be the 1970's hit "Takin' Care of Business" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Through the first two rounds of the women's 800m here at...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom
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EUGENE, OR (03-Jul) -- In what he hopes is a happy coincidence, Evan Jager will begin his quest for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games on the Fourth of July, exactly a year to the day that he clocked...
Kenyan barber Kenneth Mungara today became the first back-to-back winner of the Gold Coast Airport Marathon since fellow Kenyan Fred Kiprop famously nailed the 1998 and 1999 double while the women’s race record tumbled at the hands of diminutive Japanese runner Misato Horie.
In posting 2:26:40, the 29-year-old Horie slashed...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom
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EUGENE, OR (02-Jul) -- Metronome Molly Huddle was at it again, magically clicking off kilometer after kilometer to dwindle down the women's 10,000m field and win her second straight national title and her first USA Olympic Trials gold medal....
Australian athletics stars Kurt Fearnley and Christie Dawes produced sensational wins in the wheelchair marathon races at this morning’s Gold Coast Airport Marathon, and in doing do, fine-tuned their Rio 2016 Paralympic Games preparations.
Fearnley (NSW) broke the long-standing race record from 2000 with his commanding victory in his maiden...
Victoria’s Duer Yoa engaged the afterburners over the final kilometre to record a resounding win in the 2016 ASICS Half Marathon at today’s Gold Coast Airport Marathon.
Neck and neck with Japan’s Hiroyuki Sasaki (1:03:56) with 1km to go, Yoa dug deep to find a burst of unanswerable pace to...
