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Super Saturday - Event Previews from All Angles There will be non stop athletics action this Saturday, as we see major competitions take place in Portland, Oregon (IAAF World Indoor Championships) followed by the Sydney Track Classic and finishing with the Queensland Track Classic. It is everything you could wish for as...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved BOSTON (26-Apr) -- Chris O'Hare of Scotland and Brook Handler Ann Arbor, Mich., were victorious here today in the eighth edition of the B.A.A. Invitational Mile held on the streets of Back Bay.  In tactical races contested in sunny...
BOL, McNEILL & TIERNAN QUALIFY FOR RIO 2016 Peter Bol (WA, 800m), Patrick Tiernan (Qld, 5000m) and David McNeill (Vic, 5000m) have all qualified for the Olympic Games. Competing at the Weisbander Staffelabend in Weisbaden (GER), Bol clocked 1:45.78 to become the fourth man qualified to compete in the men’s two-lap race...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved FRANKLIN PARK, BOSTON, MA (16-Sep) -- With temperatures in the mid-70s and a brisk wind blowing across Franklin Park, the weather could not have been better for today's BC Coast to Coast Battle in Beantown cross country meet. The...
Sixty-two able-bodied and forty para-athletes have today been extended the offer of National Athlete Support Structure (NASS) membership by Athletics Australia. Capturing Rio 2016 Olympic Games medallists Jared Tallent (Vic) and Dane Bird-Smith (Qld) and Paralympic champions Scott Reardon (ACT), Brayden Davidson (SA) and James Turner (NSW), the NASS is...
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Exclusive interview with USA’s world U20 100m champion and double world U18 champion Candace Hill. Now in its fourth season, IAAF Inside Athletics is presented by Trinidad and Tobago’s 1997 world 200m champion Ato Boldon.
The following is taken from Neil MacDonald's interview with Sonia O'Sullivan in Jan 2003 (which can be accessed online at: http://grcc.net.au/archives.html). Neil MacDonal:  What sort of training did you do during your pregnancy? Sonia O'Sullivan: Lots of walking, some with Ciara in the pram but she is getting a bit old...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved TERRE HAUTE, IN, USA (18-Nov) -- The NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships are fewer than 24 hours away. Sixty-two teams are eyeing the sleek national championship trophies, while a select number of athletes have a shot at taking...
By Chris Lotsbom, @chrislotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved TERRE HAUTE, IND (19-Nov) -- The magic of the LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course struck again here on a bone-chilling day, as Villanova's Patrick Tiernan and Missouri's Karissa Schweizer earned upset victories at the NCAA Division I Cross Country...
Anne Garrett’s Remarkable Story A Column By Ryan Nelson from the USA for Runner's Tribe Every once in a great while, humanity gets reminded that age is really nothing more than a state of mind. When challenged or motivated, we are all capable of doing amazing things well into our seventies...
                   

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