Tag: IAAF World Championships
LANE ONE: The top stories of 2019, from no. 5 to no. 1, a...
Let there be no doubt, this was a wild year in Olympic sport, and as with so many areas today, full of contention, argument...
ATHLETICS: Kenya’s Chepngetich breaks away at 35 km, wins women’s Worlds marathon in 88-degree...
The much-feared hot conditions for the women’s marathon at the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha (QAT) were very much in evidence, with the...
TSX DAILY: USOPC Hall of Fame elects Smith and Carlos, making athlete sanction threats...
≡ TSX DAILY ~ 25 September 2019 ≡
| 1. | LANE ONE: USOPC Hall of Fame committee selections renders USOPC's protest sanctions toothless
Much was made...
TSX DAILY: WADA confirms Russian doping inquiry on data “discrepancies”; Nye and Rogers in...
≡ TSX DAILY ~ 24 September 2019 ≡
| 1. | LEADING OFF: Russian doping data “discrepancies are not random” per AIU
The World Anti-Doping Agency confirmed...
LANE ONE: Not all hosting costs are going down; Budapest to spend $111 million...
The plague of high costs which has confounded the International Olympic Committee, especially in attracting cities to host the Olympic Winter Games is spreading...
The world’s best wrestler: Undefeated, Unscored on and World Champion: Helen Maroulis!
PALM DESERT, August 25, 2017 – How do you define greatness?
Surely, American wrestling star Helen Maroulis fits the bill no matter what criteria you...
How Usain Bolt lost the last race of his career
PALM DESERT, August 21, 2017 – There’s an old adage that it’s not how you start, but how you finish.
Don’t try telling that to...
Are World Championships as important as the Olympic Games?
PALM DESERT, August 16, 2017 – The IAAF’s great World Championships in London was one of the sports highlights of 2017, but how do...
Three weeks, two World Championships, 68 U.S. medals!
PALM DESERT, August 14, 2017 – Although you wouldn’t even know about them if you were reading U.S. newspapers or watching SportsCenter on ESPN,...
EXTRA/Four more U.S. medals, but no fairy-tale farewells for Farah & Bolt
PALM DESERT, August 13, 2017 – Sure, the United States women’s 4x100 m relay team won gold at the IAAF World Championships, but the...
EXTRA/Not fake news: Coburn & Frerichs 1-2 in Steeple!
PALM DESERT, August 12, 2017 – Two Americans expected to finish about fifth and eighth instead stunned the track & field world, as Emma...
EXTRA/Phyllis Francis’ 400 m win even shocked her!
PALM DESERT, August 10, 2017 – A crazy day of track & field, held in a heavy rain in London, ended with surprise finishes...
EXTRA/Jenny Simpson’s sprint claims World Champs silver
PALM DESERT, August 8, 2017 – The field for the women’s 1,500 m final at the IAAF World Championships was one of the greatest...
Amid the jeers, cheers for Justin Gatlin
PALM DESERT, August 7, 2017 – Lustily booed by the capacity crowds in London’s Olympic Stadium and then stunning the world by winning the...
EXTRA/Gatlin guns down Coleman & Bolt from lane eight!
PALM DESERT, August 6, 2017 – The thrilling semifinal showdown that saw American Christian Coleman edge Jamaica’s Usain Bolt put the focus on those...
EXTRA/Farah’s fitness wins 10,000 m; what about Bolt?
PALM DESERT, August 5, 2017 – The IAAF World Championships got underway with a brilliant men’s 10,000 m final and the third straight world...
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