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Track & Field/Road Racing Roundup: Track, Mountain Running Champions & 20K USA Championships
by carabyrd
posted September 5, 2012 at 11:48am

Labor Day weekend did not mean that track and field athletes took the weekend off. There was still plenty of action on the roads and track including USA 20k championships, World Mountain running champions, Zagreb World Challenge and Zurich Diamond League....more

Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 5, 2012 at 8:41am

The House of Run’s morning links package: Pistorius pissed, Jeff Demps on injured reserve, and the ever-popular Paul Ryan Time Calculator. Allyson Felix has been named one of the 14 finalists for The Women’s Sports Foundation’s Sportswo...more

Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 4, 2012 at 7:18am

Your top ten news links of the day… Competition results… The Finns and Swedes split the team titles at their annual Finnkampen dual meet yesterday, and Carolina Klüft ran her final race. Plaudits for Carter and Richardson but delirium...more

Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 3, 2012 at 7:42am

Your top ten links of the day… The meet that is universally known as ISTAF, Berlin’s Internationales Stadionfest, was this morning. Some recaps… IAAF: Merritt sizzles 12.97, Harting wins 33rd straight in Berlin (link to full results ...more

Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 2, 2012 at 8:27am

Most daily link packages ignore the weekends. Not this one — the weekends are when all the action happens! Did you hear the one about the politician who lied about his marathon PR by more than an hour? Not a joke. More about this later. TFRRS.o...more

Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 1, 2012 at 9:05am

This is a few hours late due to Internet issues. My apologies. All kinds of news from yesterday’s Diamond League final in Zurich Let’s Run: Rudisha Loses, Bolt And Blake Win, Drama In Women’s Steeple, And Americans Fizzle In 5,000m Let...more

Trackcenter Top Ten: Zurich Edition
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 31, 2012 at 8:25am

Today’s top ten links are a bit early as the biggest meet of the late season gets really rolling at 2:00. The Zurich Weltklasse, the first of the two Diamond League finals, begins shortly. You can watch it live at CBC.ca beginning at 2:00 PM (East...more

Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 30, 2012 at 7:44am

Tomorrow’s Weltklasse, the first of two Diamond League finals, got underway today with the shot put in Zurich’s downtown train station. Click to see who won. The IAAF on tomorrow’s meet: Bolt and Rudisha lead 15 London champions in Z&u...;more

Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 29, 2012 at 8:21am

The day’s top ten news items… Preseason NCAA cross country rankings are out, with Wisconsin’s men and Oregon’s women at the top. Scotty Bush previews the top men’s college programs. Speaking of college cross country, two ...more

Giving a Sh*t and Getting Over the Olympics (Lauren Fleshman Blog)
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted August 28, 2012 at 8:26am

Time heals all Wounds, if you let it. As my last blog indicated, as an injured, aspiring [non] Olympian I was unsure of how watching the Olympics would sit with me. I imagined I’d need to force myself, like a good little American, to turn on NBC an...more

Track & Field/Road Racing Roundup: Post Olympics
by carabyrd
posted August 27, 2012 at 3:45pm

    The post-Olympic track season is slowly inching to an end and this past week featured two great meets.  Both  the 2012 Lausanne Diamond League meet and 2012 Birmingham Diamond League meet featured Olympians riding out their pea...more

The tragic triumph of Samia Yusuf Omar
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted August 22, 2012 at 9:36am

BY: SHIREEN AHMEDSamia Yusuf Omar was an aspiring middle distance runner from Somalia. Her untimely death at sea in April 2012 cut short her Olympic aspirations and the dreams of her beloved Somalia. Samia has a story of resilience, strength and determina...more

Engaging the public (Track and Field)
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 22, 2012 at 9:15am

Over the weekend, Germany’s track and field federation put on the “Berlin Fliegt”, a four-nation team competition of long jumpers and pole vaulters held in front of Berlin’s Brandenberg Gate. It wasn’t a terribly notable com...more

Should there be Team Scoring for Track and Field at the Olympics?
by carabyrd
posted August 20, 2012 at 8:08pm

I have been absolutely lost at what to do know without the Olympics in my life. I know I will go back and begin following the Diamond League meets and any other European meets until cross country season and fall marathons roll around. This year the Olympi...more

Kohistani aims to inspire Afghan girls
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted August 17, 2012 at 10:12pm

Female runner part of the team that returned to red carpet welcome in Kabul Kabul: The first Afghan female to compete at an Olympics Games hopes to act as inspiration to other women in her country.Tahmina Kohistani, the 23-year-old runner, may not have wo...more

Early Post-Olympic Track and Field Action
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 17, 2012 at 3:10pm

The Diamond League resumes today in Stockholm, where they’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1912 Olympics and the OlympiaStadion, the beautiful old brick stadium built for it and still used for today’s DN Galan invitational. Video c...more

NBC’s Coverage of Olympic Track and Field
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 16, 2012 at 7:24am

I told everyone I knew who cares even the slightest about sports or my hometown of Toledo that it was happening at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, August 7. It was the men’s high jump final, and Toledoan Erik Kynard, an alumni of my junior high and who spent h...more

Assessing Team USA’s Track & Field Performance
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 15, 2012 at 8:59am

As no doubt you already know, the U.S. Olympic track and field team took home 29 medals. This was only one medal short of the audacious goal set by former USA Track and Field CEO Doug Logan as part of “Project 30″, a major overhaul of the org...more

Random Olympic Track & Field thoughts…
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 14, 2012 at 8:56am

Various things that popped into my head over the course of the last two weeks… The real star of the Olympic track and field competition wasn’t the electrifying Usain Bolt, the possibly-to-be-knighted Mo Farah, Jess Ennis, David Rudisha, or a...more

London 2012: The Knee Story
by Kara Throws Javelin
posted August 14, 2012 at 8:49am

First of all, London 2012 has been a really good experience.  I knew what to expect this time around, from being bombarded by emails from team managers, to receiving an overwhelming amount of new gear and having to find a way to get it home (thanks, ...more

The Gender of Second
by From A Left Wing
posted August 13, 2012 at 7:45am

Mariya Savinova and Caster Semenya When Caster Semenya raced from last to second in the final stretch of the women's 800 meters, some wondered is she aimed for silver. She has a turbo drive of a kick - if she'd engaged it sooner she might have taken gold...more

Post-Olympic Track and Field Viewing
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 12, 2012 at 4:40pm

The Olympics may officially still be going on right now, but as far as I’m concerned they are over after the men’s marathon. Track junkies want to know, how will I get my fix? There’s actually a pretty good amount of stuff coming up. ...more

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