“This morning I was telling myself, ‘I’m so stupid. Why am I playing this kind of game? Why the hell am I thinking that I want to run marathon.’ … I never cry. I cried this morning.
Sifan Hassan before her marathon debut.
The Olympic Champion delivers under pressure!
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn blew away the field and ran through the hurdles smoothly to take the women's 100mH (a non-DL event) in 12.45. Tobi Amusan was second in a Season's Best of 12.58.
#EugeneDL
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#DiamondLeague
Your moment of Larry for today: question to
@des_linden
by me: “Des, I won’t dare ask you about the Olympic Trials, but is tonight a bourbon or whisky night.”
Des Linden: “Bourbon is whisky, Larry.”
I love
@des_linden
,
#tcsnycmarathon
,
@brooksrunning
,
Do not get me wrong!
#Eugene
can be a wonderful host for athletics. But hotels more expensive than New York City, and the expectation that tracks fans will go where they are told is getting old! I love new Hayward Field but we need to move US champs around country to grow sport.
The Gambia's Gina Bass was full of joy as she took down her countries National Record over the 100m in the semis of the African Championships, setting a new mark of 11.08s (+0.1) to qualify as the fastest athlete to the final.
#COCASS22
#Mauritius
#Maurice2022
I must say , the “bourbon is whiskey, Larry” tshirt, has made me smile. I just did not know how much it had gotten into the vernacular. At the
#cloakroombar
in the
#doubletreeamericanhotel
, a rather inebriated man said to a friend, “well, Larry, Bourbon is whiskey.”
@des_linden
,
🏆 Athlete of the Year 🏆
British female athlete of the year is Eilish McColgan 🇬🇧
✅ Commonwealth 10,000m champion and 5000m silver medallist
✅ European 10,000m silver and 5000m bronze medallist
✅ UK 5km, 10km, 15km and half-M NRs
@EilishMccolgan
@JeffBenjaminrun
Benard Kibet has run 58:45 at the RAK Half Marathon. Did you also know that Bendard has run 13:00.38 (Nov. 2023) for 5,000m and 26:55.04 for 10,000m (2022)? Benard was 5th in
#Budapest2023
in the 10,000m! Benard told
#RunBlogRun
today that he is fit and wants to run much faster!
🗣️ The numbers are possible (breaking another world record), but it's a matter of getting there. As an athlete, people don't understand that you are not always going to come out of the gates ready to that all the time".
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone after her 52.70s world lead in
John Nuttall, RIP. John was 1996 Olympian. 1994 Commonwealth Games silver medalist at 5000m, UK endurance coach, husband, father, stepfather. I met John with Ian Stewart one night after John followed Ian as UK Endurance coach. John Nuttall had a great sense of humor. He will be
Kenny Bednarek, silver,
"It is a very special moment. I had a setback earlier this year, I broke my toe just to be able to make it to the finals, and now I have a silver medal again; I kind of noted about that..this is just an amazing experience,
#kevmofoto
,
#WCHOregon22
,
Sydney moves from 400m hurdles to 200 meters!
In a period of a few hours,
#EMEnews
reported that Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone had pulled out of the 400-meter hurdles. Social media was quick to respond, somewhat harshly. An hour later, noted track geek
@_OwenM_
updated fearful fans
40 Years Ago Today - Joan Benoit won
@bostonmarathon
in a World Record time of 2:22:43, shattering Grete Waitz’s day-old mark in London of 2:25:28.7. Benoit would go on to win the inaugural 1984 Women’s Olympic Marathon, inspiring future generations of U.S. Women!
#marathons
Being with my son, Adam, for first time in fifteen months was profound! We had Doppelback and German sausage to celebrate. He won beard growing contest.
So,
@athiiing
was the 800m Wild Card. She competed, but could not win the Diamon League title for the 800 meters. Keely Hodgkinson won due to the number of DLs she ran plus the points that she had accumulated.
#nikepreclassic
,
photo: Brian Eder for
#RunBlogRun
In 1980 Running Legend Craig Virgin Accomplished What NO American Male Had Ever Accomplished - Winning The Annual World Cross-Country Championships!
On This Day- March 28th, 1981 - Craig Would Defend His Title And Win Again!
Stay Tuned For Jeff’s Benjamin 40th Anniversary Piece!
𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧! 🚨🚨
Finally!!!!! After many attempts of trying, Faith Kipyegon breaks the World Record of 3:49.11s.
Take a bow, Mother Faith!
#DiamondLeague
#FlorenceDL
The women's Pole Vault will reunite the podium trio of Katie Moon, Sandi Morris and Nina Kennedy from the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.
Moon who has a Personal Best of 4.95m (fourth on the all-time list) took victory in Doha in 2021.
#DiamondLeague
💎
#DohaDL
There is no limit to what women can do. Meet Ruby, our pregnant Stage Manager for the NCAA Track and Field Championships.
Ruby spent four 6+ hours days in the sun making sure the booth was perfect for the crew to do their job for the fans.
Far too often in the TV industry the