Great photo!

✍️ BREAKING NEWS: Graham Blanks, the 2x NCAA cross country champion at Harvard, has decided to forego the remainder of his NCAA eligibility & signed a professional contract with New Balance. 🗣️ “It’s time to move on to bigger adventures.” 📰 More details + our interview: citiusmag.com/articles/gra...

Great performances! Fun to think about his potential. But even with such great potential, realizing it is a whole different thing. The greater the potential, the higher the risk. He’ll need a solid team around him to help him navigate the journey.

Some strikingly similar arguments between the "how to save the NBA" and "how to save track and field".

What track & field social accounts fit this criteria: -Reasoned perspective on issues. -Goal to break news or inform fans. -Unafraid to be unpopular. (But not deliberately unpopular just for attention.) -Spreads facts, not known untruths. -Covers sprints & hurdles as much as distance.

🚨Three-time Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas has signed with Grand Slam Track.

✅ That one’s done. 🚧🏗️ Back to work!

GRAND SLAM TRACK™ Announces Signing of Triple US Olympic Gold Medalist Gabby Thomas 📰 https://buff.ly/3Vd7DWq

Who else do you want to see sign with Grand Slam Track? ✍️

Potentially a big development in the race to host the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games with South Africa holding talks today with the IOC in Lausanne. An African country has never hosted the Games. It is widely expected that if they do bid, then Cape Town would be the city they put forward.

US women: “We’ll take our chances with four women. At least we’ll get the baton around.”

When Mixed 4x4 was announced I hated it. Now I love it. So I’ll wait to see how this goes. Exchange zone gonna be exciting or an absolute shit show!

Five new signings for Grand Slam Track: 🇬🇧Daryll Neita 🇺🇸Elise Cranny 🇰🇪Mary Moraa 🇯🇵Nozomi Tanaka 🇧🇭Salwa Eid Naser

Interesting! 🤨

✍️2024 400m Olympic silver medalist & 2019 World champion Salwa Eid Naser has signed on as a Racer with @grandslamtrack.bsky.social ahead of the pro track league’s inaugural season in 2025. She joins 400m Olympic champ Marileidy Paulino in the long sprints category that will contest 200m & 400m.

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NEWS: 400m Olympic silver medalist Salwa Eid Naser has signed with @grandslamtrack.bsky.social as a Racer. We’ll see her vs. Olympic gold medalist Marileidy Paulino go head-to-head in 200m/400m at each of the four Slams.

Nozomi Tanaka has signed on as a Racer for the 3000m/5000m group with @grandslamtrack.bsky.social ahead of the professional track league’s inaugural season in 2025. She makes history as the league’s first Japanese athlete. 🇯🇵

If this is going to work we probably have to started replying instead of just liking. One thing that made Threads slow down significantly after a great start is it was boring. I’ll try to do better.

Since the Paris Olympics we’ve announced over 35 Olympic medalists and finalists as @grandslamtrack.bsky.social Racers. Last week we announced Kingston, Miami, Philly, and LA as our host cities. I couldn’t be prouder of our progress. Thanks to all the fans who continue to support us! More to come!

Thanks Broadcast Sport for the recognition! Thanks to BBCSport for 22 years! Thanks to all the Athletics fans for your support and all the appreciation and kind words. Nothing better than “working” to help fans have a more enjoyable viewing experience of my favorite sport!

Perspective on SPRINT on Netflix. -Netflix and the producers objective is to entertain a large audience (not just track fans) with captivating content. -Big difference between entertainment programs and sport programs. This is intended to be an entertainment program. 🧵1/5

Doing my best to keep track of not just athletes but media, events, and key folks. go.bsky.app/2obB38i

Okay I’m here. Haven’t left X but I’d like to. It’s been the best platform for dialogue, but too many people there are uninterested in productive and thoughtful discussion which is what I’m here for. I will reply and engage with followers. But if it turns to same as X, I’m out. Let’s have some fun!

In August I extended an invitation for an athlete to join Grand Slam Track but they were not interested. It was understandable, at the time we had only announced Sydney and Josh. Three months later their agent reached back out and fortunately I still had a spot — they just signed.

Hey track fans, We’re not all here yet but we created a starter pack for our CITIUS MAG resident track and field nerds (past and present) who write, create podcasts/videos on all things we love about the sport. Follow along and we’ll continue updating it as more join. ⤵️ go.bsky.app/ShaoTF7