Jos Hermens had been talking for maybe four minutes, and already I had learned that he sexted his wife (he made a…
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Ghirmay Ghebreslassie won the NYC Marathon in 2:07:51, but what received almost as much attention as his dominance…
“Women can’t walk outside at all, to say nothing of running,” Jessica Wright told me. They’re not supposed to be…
Over the weekend, the Syracuse Post-Standard reported on the sad story of Chase Coleman. Coleman is a skinny, black,…
Ethiopian Almaz Ayana set a new world record of 29 minutes 17.45 seconds in the women’s 10,000 meters at the Rio…
What I do at the middle school is generously called cross country coaching. To the untrained eye, our program looks…
Nobody was taking Noah Droddy’s picture, which seemed strange considering the rail-thin runner’s recent rise to…
Dominic Ondoro is pretty tall for a Kenyan runner. Maybe 5'11", with shanks like a deer. He broke away from his…
Max Siegel, CEO of USA Track and Field, is enjoying first class travel, private jets, luxury hotels, and $1.7million…
Abdi Abdirahman said he is “way more relaxed” at 39 than he was when he was younger, causing me to experience a…
The Bobby Crim 10-Mile is one of those legacy road races, birthed in the heyday of U.S. distance running, 1977, that…
U.S. high jumper Inika McPherson finished 10th in the Olympic final, finishing second for Team USA behind Chaunte…
In 1974, the Iranian national women’s volleyball team competed in the well-recognized volleyball ensemble—shorts and…
The Olympic 10,000 meters was eyeballs out, hands down the fastest, deepest women’s 25-lap race I have ever seen.…
South African Wayde van Niekerk’s Olympic gold medal and beautiful world record in the 400 meters could hardly get…
A Kenyan track coach was caught yesterday using a runner’s accreditation, apparently to get a free meal in the…
This is the story of two Olympians wearing hijabs. One is U.S. fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, who is one of the faces of…
Physics figures large in high jump. Converting horizontal energy into vertical energy, torque, angle, and center of…
The three priestesses of the high jump—the American reps in Rio—are an unconventional and disparate bunch, whose…
By any standard, it was warm in Eugene, Oregon on July 2, game-changingly so for the 24 women who shook their legs…