ATHLETICS: Happy Birthday to Rafer Johnson!
Not more results, but birthday wishes for one of America’s iconic Olympic champions, Rafer Johnson, who turned 83 on 18 August.
Sure, he was the...
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS/ ATHLETICS: Ingebrigtsen and Duplantis supreme in Berlin
The stunning men’s pole vault, topped by Mondo Duplantis’s 6.05 m (19-10 1/4) world leader – see more in today’s Lane One – was...
ATHLETICS: Final “regular-season” Diamond League meet comes to Birmingham Saturday
After three and a half months of running, jumping and throwing, the IAAF Diamond League season will finish its “regular” schedule with the Muller...
LANE ONE: Did you see that a Swedish teenager set an American record in...
A marvelous European Track & Field Championships concluded last Sunday in Berlin (GER), with the highlight being the men’s pole vault in which two...
ATHLETICS: Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart passes at 63
One of the great characters in the professional wrestling ranks who was also an outstanding shot putter – Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart – passed...
Warholm adds European 400 m Hurdles title in Berlin
If you thought that Norway’s World Champion Karsten Warholm, still just 22 years old, would be discouraged by his repeated defeats to Qatar’s Abderrahman...
Russian high jumpers denied permission for int’l competition
The IAAF Doping Review Board has disqualified co-world leader in the men’s high jump, Danil Lysenko, for failing to provide “whereabouts” information to the...
Caster Semenya makes history with African Champs 400 m win
The African Championships in track & field are ongoing in Asaba, Nigeria in a sub-par facility that doesn’t even appear to be completely flat...
Russian high jumpers denied permission for int’l competition
The IAAF Doping Review Board has disqualified co-world leader in the men’s high jump, Danil Lysenko, for failing to provide “whereabouts” information to the...
Caster Semenya makes history with African Champs 400 m win
The African Championships in track & field are ongoing in Asaba, Nigeria in a sub-par facility that doesn’t even appear to be completely flat...
Eugene selected to host 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials
USA Track & Field ended the suspense and to the surprise of almost no one, chose an under-construction facility in Eugene, Oregon after removing...
The IAAF is unhappy with the uniformity of uniforms
The IAAF Council meeting in Buenos Aires on 26-27 July was one of the busiest in recent memory. In addition to its decisions on...
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