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...
Saturday 2 July
Two rising distance runners from the ACT starred on the opening day of the 38th annual Gold Coast Airport Marathon by claiming both men’s and women’s Southern Cross University 10km Run races.
More than 10,000 runners and walkers greeted the starter across all races today, out of a...
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EUGENE, OR (01-Jul) -- You could call it what you want: a war of attrition, fartlek, or game of cat and mouse.
The men's Olympic Trials 10,000m was a pure test of will, with athletes wavering back and forth trying to decide what...
