Kenyans keep winning, and keep doping. That is unlikely to change any time soon. Doping in Kenya is about more than winning: The town where no one runs for fun. 🇰🇪 💉 🥇 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

Nike has confirmed that they reported Faith Kipyegon's "flying time" on Thursday. Using the standard timing method, she ran 4:06.91. I wouldn't have cared if she ran across the line and got a true flying start. They never claimed to be following the rules. But doing this quietly isn't a great look.

I see this and I think about how many professional runners are now deleting Instagram from their phones for large stretches of time, both for performance reasons and for their mental health. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/b...

Nature Calls, but Telahun Haile Answers with a Blazing Comeback in Dramatic 10,000m Debut Next Stop: Jamaica @grandslamtrack.bsky.social the event where he'll test his speed in the 3,000m and 5,000m as a Challenger. bizuathletics.com?p=558

Gaborone, Botswana will host the 2026 World Athletics Relays 🇧🇼 It will be the first time that a country in Africa has held the event since it was founded back in 2014 🌍

World Athletics Media Academy: developing new talents in journalism, photography and TV commentary

How to Prevent Burnout: -Have at least one activity that is separate from your main pursuit. -Sleep 7 to 9 hours every night. -Move. -Disconnect from your devices in the evening. -Give. Mentor, coach, help others!

The IOC has suspended funding of the World Olympians Association, the group that represents athletes who have competed in the #Olympics, and is trying to steal its intellectual property after the organisation refused to allow itself to be taken over. The ZeusFiles open.substack.com/pub/duncanma...

Ethiopia’s team for #Nanjing2025 World Indoor Champs (March 21-23) is stacked! 🌟 Includes Glasgow 2024 champs Tsige Duguma (800m) & Freweyni Hailu (1500m), plus Gudaf Tsegay, Diribe Welteji, Samuel Tefera, & Berihu Aregawi. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ #Athletics #Ethiopia

What a blow. The announcement offers no reason beyond, "We really looked forward to welcoming the running world to San Diego this September but sadly it is not to be at this time.” worldathletics.org/news/press-r...

Apparently a phone charger caught fire on the track at the Big Ten Indoor Champs.

“I'll miss track, but I have to leave,” the 10,000m world record holder told reporters at the 2025 Tokyo Marathon press conference 🎤 runningmagazine.ca/sections/run...

World Athletics opens tender for results and statistics service worldathletics.org/news/news/te...

Brimin Misoi Kipkorir – winner of the 2024 Sydney and 2022/2023 Frankfurt Marathon – has been provisionally suspended for the use of EPO and furosemide. The 35-year-old Kenyan has a marathon best of 2:04:53, which he set in Frankfurt two years ago.

Botswana is bidding to host the 2026 World Relays! www.mmegi.bw/sports/botsw...

Shelby McEwen going from clearing 7'-8.75" for Olympic high jump silver to a windmill dunk in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game 🔥

Meeting Metz Moselle Athlelor – World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver (Feb. 8/2025 – Metz, Frnace) Ethiopian Tsige Duguma win the women’s 800m race with a world lead and meeting record time of 1:58.97. #worldindoortoursilver2025

World Athletics has found 30 possible cases of athletes manipulating their birth records to compete for Kenya at several U20 World Athletics Championships: runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/do...

New national record for 🇿🇦Prudence Sekgodiso in 1:59.88 and becoming the first South African woman to ever run a sub-2:00 800m indoors!

The world would be a much better place if everyone took a walk every day. No music, phone, device. Just you and your thoughts or you, a friend, and dialogue. Consider it recess for adults. Time to allow your mind to reset and recharge.

Ethiopian Athletics Federation 42nd Jan-Meda International Cross-Country Competition Results (Feb 2, 2025) Results courtesy of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation 📷 Aman Photos & Ethiopian Athletics Federation #JanMedaInternationalCrossCountry #Ethiopia

Tokyo Marathon elite field: japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2025/01/toky... women: Sutume Asefa Kebede Brigid Kosgei Tigist Ketema Rosemary Wanjiru Ai Hosoda Yuka Ando Rie Kawauchi men: Benson Kipruto Derese Geleta Joshua Cheptegei Benard Koech Yohei Ikeda Ichitaka Yamashita Kenya Sonota Aoi Ota

Joshua Cheptegei headlines the 2025 Tokyo Marathon 🇯🇵 The double Olympic and triple world champion on the track made his marathon debut in Valencia two years ago – where he clocked 2:08:59 🏃 Cheptegei is still the world record-holder over both 5000m (12:35.36) and 10,000m (26:11.00) ⚡️

The United States has lost faith in the World Anti Doping agency to police clean sport and has now withheld millions of dollars it sends in funding. Huge blow to WADA's reputation and major fracture in relationship with US government. Story here with Mike Schmidt: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...

Oh! Oregon lands Nigerian sprint sensation Favour Ashe via the transfer portal. 🦆

Ethiopian clubs competition, Addis Ababa, January 2025 W 800m: 1. Tsige Duguma 1:59.6, 2. Nigist Getachew 2:00.1, 3. Aster Areri 2:02.5 (Jan 1) M 10,000m RaceWalk: 1. Misgana Wakuma 39:43.2 (Jan 3) 📷EAF

Excited to announce my 2025 project: The Zeus Files, a Substack newsletter on the Olympic Movement. The first edition drops tomorrow, with daily previews this week of the seven IOC presidential candidates' manifestos. Sign up here: duncanmackayveritas.substack.com #Olympics #IOC #OlympicMovement

Standard Nike contract requires an athlete to run in two Nike-sponsored events each year. Chepngetich had only done one (Chicago Marathon). She likely ran without doing any specific training just to avoid the chance of a contract cut.

WATCH: 5000m and 10,000m Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet becomes the first woman to break 14 minutes for 5K to SMASH the world record in 13:54 at the Cursa Dels Nassos race in Barcelona. 🚨 🇪🇸 One of the best parts of all these fast races in Spain is the announcers going wild all the time. ENERGY!

When Tarsis Orogot wore SpongeBob socks at the Olympics 😂👏

✍️ 1500m Ethiopian Olympian and road mile world record holder Diribe Welteji has signed on as a Racer with @grandslamtrack.bsky.social ⤵️ 🗞️ citiusmag.com/articles/brittany-brown-freddie-crittenden-zharnel-hughes-diribe-welteji-sign-with-grand-slam-track

A fascinating look at the role of agents in distance running, and why some athletes are choosing other routes, from @slorgebutler.bsky.social. www.runnersworld.com/news/a631767...

Sadly, Amanda Vestri's excellent half-marathon debut of 1:08:12 does not show in her @worldathletics.org profile because the race was not part of the WA calendar. The growing disconnect between what athletes actually do and the WA database, which drives their points system, is concerning. 📷J Pace

Al khobar elite field: albertostretti.blog/2024/12/11/a... @citiusmag.com @siropierini.bsky.social

News: Ethiopia’s Hagos Gebrhiwet, who ran the second-fastest 5000m in history with a 12:36.72 in May, has signed on to join @grandslamtrack.bsky.social. A look at what his signing means for the 3000m/5000m group ft. Grant Fisher, Luis Grijalva and Ronald Kwemoi. citiusmag.com/articles/hag...

ROLL TIDE 🐘 NCAA XC champ Doris Lemngole of Alabama gets another big win as she holds off former teammate Hilda Olemomoi and breaks Parker Valby’s indoor collegiate record in the 5000m, running 14:52.57 to knock 0.22 seconds off the old mark.

For a long time people have spoken of Gout Gout as the next big thing in track and field and this might be the weekend where he gains global attention. 20.04 at 16 over 200m!? This is why parallels between him and Usain Bolt at that age are now impossible to ignore.

የ2025 የአለም አትሌቲክስ ሻምፒዮና የአትሌቶች ብቃት መከታተያ ድህረገፅ ፕላትፎርም "Road to Tokyo 25" ከሁለት ቀን በፊት በዓለም አትሌቲክስ ተለቋል፡፡ Road to Tokyo 25, an athlete performance tracking website platform for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, was released two days ago by World Athletics. worldathletics.org/stats-zone/r...

Great story by @thatrichsands.bsky.social for Race Results Weekly about the 2 Eritrean men who will be running Sunday's #HonoluluMarathon, Yemane Haileselassie & Amanuel Mesel. Coached by @mckirdytrained.bsky.social they are hoping to gain asylum in the USA. tinyurl.com/36wjm936 📷 Jane Monti / RRW

✍🏻 Kentucky's Tapiwanashe "Carlie" Makarawu has signed an NIL deal with On. Makarawu is coming off a summer in which he competed at his first Olympics and reached the 200m final, where he finished sixth. He is the Zimbabwe 200m record holder with a PB of 19.93.

Big changes at NAZ Elite. Rosario is leaving the group he founded for an entrepreneurial venture to be announced. Eight of the group's 20 athletes will not be re-signed in 2025. www.runnersworld.com/news/a630872...

The current 200m quality in Africa is insane right now: 19.46: L. Tebogo🇧🇼 19.75: T. Orogot🇺🇬 19.76: U. Onwuzurike🇳🇬 19.79: J. Dadzie🇬🇭 19.83: J. Fahnbulleh🇱🇷 19.93: T. Makarawu🇿🇼 19.93: C. Traore🇨🇮 19.95: M. Charamba🇿🇼 19.99: S. Maswanganyi🇿🇦 19.99: B. Richardson🇿🇦 And they are all still 24 y/o or younger

Former Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya athletics coach and manager (...and statistician), Walter Abmayr dies at 77 sportsnow.com.ng/former-niger...

This year's Photograph of the Year Award goes to Michael Steele ✨ Full announcement 🔗 bit.ly/49cF0hA #AthleticsAwards

The world would be a much better place if everyone took a walk every day. No music, phone, device. Just you and your thoughts or you, a friend, and dialogue. Consider it recess for adults. Time to allow your mind to reset and recharge

The BAA announced plans to issue voluntary payments to athletes who were adversely affected by doping offenses at events like the Boston Marathon. The BAA is "identifying and contacting athletes whose results were re-ranked due to a disqualification within prize money placings since 1986." [1/2]

Lu'an International Marathon might have the weirdest tradition 🦢 runningmagazine.ca/sections/run...

Jakob Ingebrigtsen will be ready.