From early 2008 when he set his first world record until the end of 2017 when he finally announced his retirement, my summers largely consisted of chasing Usain Bolt, still the world’s fastest man. A couple times I actually caught him.
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Paying our respects to the Olympic and athletics legend during a visit to Cleveland this week.
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This is a sculpture of track & field legend Harrison Dillard, the only man to win Olympic titles in the 100 meter dash and the 110m hurdles. And, one of my favorite athletes of all time. The life sized tribute, created by Ohio sculptor David Deming, has pride of place in a pleasantly shaded spot… Continue reading
I was in Stockholm over the weekend to cover the 2020 Bauhaus Galan Wanda Diamond League meeting where Karsten Warholm was on fire.
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I covered the Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, yesterday (Wednesday, 19 August), the second stop on the abbreviated 2020 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet series. World 200m champion Noah Lyles was the star of the night, producing a commanding win in the 100m and then doubling back 65 minutes later to win the 200m before calling his season to an end.
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This story originally appeared on Worldathletics.org to mark this year’s World Refugee Day.Photo © Getty Images for IAAF, used with permission. ~~ Otmane Nait-Hammou admits that his present relationship with the 3000m steeplechase wasn’t exactly love at first sight. But over time, the Athlete Refugee Team member says his admiration for the event has grown… Continue reading
For nearly four years in the early 1990s, residents of Sarajevo, the host city of the 1984 Winter Olympics, were subjected to daily shelling and sniper fire by Bosnian Serb forces, positioned in the hills surrounding the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, killing 13,952 people. Thousands were children. Published originally on WorldAthletics.org for this year’s… Continue reading
Nine years ago, Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed spent three days crossing the Sinai Desert on foot from Egypt to Israel, the tail end of a treacherous journey from his home in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region. Since then, he’s worked his way onto a doorstep that could lead him to next year’s Tokyo Olympic Games. Published… Continue reading
Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed knows more than most about crossing difficult terrain.
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Dominic Lokinyomo was eight when his family fled the violence of Sudan’s civil war, and not yet nine when they were separated. To help dull the pain of that separation, he took up sport and began to run. That early passion eventually landed him at the UNHCR KENYA-sponsored Tegla Loroupe Training Camp for Athlete Refugees… Continue reading
Don’t let your inexperience get the better of you. That was the main objective Chajen Dang carried with her to the javelin runway at Stephen Keshi Memorial Stadium on the fourth day of the African Athletics Championships in Asaba, Nigeria, last August. It was a reasonable goal. At 17, she was competing in her first… Continue reading
Checking in quickly from the departure lounge at Doha’s Hamad airport the night after I joined 16 reigning world and Olympic champions who assembled yesterday to help kick off the 2017 IAAF Diamond League series, which got underway for the eighth straight year in the Qatari capital.
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