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After a wild weekend of racing, Jonathan Gault reveals his Olympic locks and ponders if we should be worried about the Bowerman Track Club.
Preview of Sundays 2021 adidas Boost Boston Games Preview: Noah Lyles, Grant Holloway, and Wayde van Niekerk Hit the Streets May 22, 2021 Sunday is going to be a big day for track & field fans. First, at 2:00 p.m. ET, the Diamond League opens its 2021 season in Gateshead, England (LRC preview here). Right after that meet concludes, the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold will make its final US stop at the adidas Boost Boston Games, which will be shown live on NBC from 4:30-6:00 p.m. ET. This is the fifth edition of the adidas meet, so you’re probably familiar with how it works by now: the...
WTW: A Look At The Ethiopian Olympic Marathon Team, America’s Teen Sprint Prodigies Continue To Impress, Courtney Wayment and Karoline Grøvdal Run Fast Below we try to make sense of some of the major events of the last week. **** Article continues below player Assuming the Ethiopian federation sticks to what it has said it will do and take the top 3 from its trials to the Olympics, the list of names that didn’t make the 2020 Ethiopian Olympic men’s marathon team is staggering. Kenenisa Bekele – the world’s greatest distance runner and second-fastest marathon in history — isn’t ...
Holy Crap, 17-Year-Olds Erriyon Knighton (9.99*) and Jaylen Slade (10.03*/20.20) Just Ran Insanely Fast May 3, 2021 The track at the National Training Center in Clermont, nestled among the lakes of central Florida, is rather like a volcano. Which is perhaps appropriate given the town’s namesake of Clermont-Ferrand in France, actually is situated among the Chaîne des Puys volcano range. Surrounded by hills, the 400-meter oval is situated on a sunken “crater” and has a tendency to belch out fiery sprint performances; given the critical mass of elite sprint groups based on Florida, the C...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Running his fastest 400m hurdles time since 2018, Kenny Selmon (Mableton, Georgia) was selected as the 12th USATF Athlete of the Week award winner for 2021. Selmon, a 2013 World Youth bronze medalist who won the 2018 USATF title in his specialty, was victorious at the USATF Sprint Summit in Prairie View, Texas, surging over the final half of the race to win in a world-leading 48.87. His time is the fastest by an American since 2019 and is almost a half-second faster than anyone else globally in 2021. More top performances from the past week: Morolake Akinosun won the women’...