While the sport’s oxygen went to big-city marathons and late-season track galas, World Athletics spent the week tending to scaffolding. Tickets opened for the 2026 World Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee; the council finalized qualification systems for three 2026 series events (indoor worlds, relays, U20); and the federation confirmed...
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An interesting statistic about Faith Kipyegon (thinking on it, you can drop the ‘interesting’; every statistic about Faith Kipyegon is interesting). But the one that has piqued my interest recently concerns Faith and the 5000 metres. Kipyegon, the best 1500 runner in history, burst into calculations at the 5000 metres...
You may have noticed some talk about the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sydney Olympics this past week or so. The Opening Ceremony of Sydney 2000 was 15 September but the focus of as much, if not more, of the commentary has been a more significant landmark which occurred 10...
Written by Ben Traynor, for Runner’s Tribe The Megablast sits at the sharp end of ASICS’ Blast lineage—the Novablast that lit the fuse, the Superblast that pushed stack height and versatility, and now this: a max-stack, non-plated trainer wrapped around a new slab of FlyteFoam Turbo². ASICS’s ATPU blend is...
And on the last day it rained. Almost from the moment the program for the final day of the world championships got under way the rain started to tumble down. Like all rain, it felleth on the just and the unjust alike. It might be a question, however, as to...
A column by Len Johnson Mackenzie Little took Australia’s third bronze medal of the championships in the women’s javelin, Beatrice Chebet out-ran Faith Kipyegon, Gudaf Tsegay and others in a 5000 metres that Sebastian Coe would hope will become a template for the Ultimate Championships but it was Emmanuel Wanyonyi...
Ah, the glorious uncertainties of sport. One night Jess Hull is down and out, victim of a fall in her heat of the 800 metres. Twenty-four hours later, reinstated on appeal, she broke the Oceania record and will now run the final. She’s something special (sorry Bruce, but I’m borrowing...
Sometimes it seemed there was a better field watching the men’s world championships 1500 metres final than there was running it. Jakob Ingebrigtsen couldn’t run himself into fitness – not 1500 fitness, anyway; he may still win his third straight 5000 gold – in time. Out he went in the...
In her last race before the world championships Jess Hull fell apart in the final metres to allow Nelly Chepchirchir to slip past to take the Diamond League final by three hundredths of a second. Come the final of the world championships, if Hull stole a glance at the big...
