Runner's Tribe

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...

By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved 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...

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...

Less than a week to go until the Olympic qualifying period ends on July 11. Will This Be Our Best Olympic Team Since Sydney? It's hard to imagine an Australian Olympic team without Sally Pearson, but unfortunately that's what we are...

By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved 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...

With time running out and the pressure mounting with each race, it was with great relief and elation that Australia's Selma Kajan clocked the Rio 800m Qualifier in Barcelona, Spain late last week. Runner's Tribe caught up with Selma for a...

By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved 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...

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...

By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved 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...

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...