By Nate Mann PALO ALTO, Calif. – During two days in September 1993, six Chinese women ran under 8 minutes, 20 seconds in the 3,000-meter race. Until Sunday, no one had done so since. Twenty-six years later, Sifan Hassan joined… Continue Reading
By Nate Mann SAN MATEO, Calif. — The last time Michael Norman lost a 400-meter race was at the U.S. outdoor championships in 2017. He finished in seventh place, 0.77 seconds behind the winner, Fred Kerley of Texas A&M. Kerley… Continue Reading
By Nate Mann The men’s high-performance 5,000 wrapped up a slate of high-performance races at the Portland Track Festival on Sunday. In their last chance to get an autograph, six kids waited at the finish line with Sharpies in hand.… Continue Reading
By Nate Mann Konstanze Klosterhalfen’s coach told her not to take the lead in the Portland Track Festival’s high performance women’s 1,500-meter race on Sunday night. She had won her 800-meter heat an hour earlier and therefore had planned to… Continue Reading
By Nate Mann Zouhair Talbi’s goal for Portland Track Festival on Saturday night was to break 28 minutes in the 10,000-meter competition. He just missed it, finishing in 28 minutes, 2.89 seconds. But despite narrowly missing his target time, Talbi… Continue Reading
By Nate Mann Sprinter Noah Lyles knew competition in the Prefontaine Classic 200 meters would be difficult, so he called for a “spirit bomb” on Twitter. A spirit bomb is one of Goku’s finishing moves in Dragonball Z, a Japanese… Continue Reading
By Nate Mann Sam Kendricks continued his dominance on U.S. soil by winning the 2018 Prefontaine Classic men’s pole vault with a jump of 19 feet, ¾ inches. But the pole vault victory was not the most exhilarating part of… Continue Reading
By Nate Mann Her last race at Hayward Field won the Triple Crown for the University of Oregon women. Her most recent professional race, a sprint-medley at the Penn Relays, set the new world record. Friday’s meet record victory and… Continue Reading
By Nate Mann Although Ja’Maun Charles is from Pleasanton, California, training in the rain of Pullman, Washington, prepared him for races like Saturday’s 100 meters at the Pepsi Team Invitational. In fact, he had endured a similar environment at Hayward… Continue Reading