So much for wanting to win all the majors or prove he can win a non-flat course.
A record 8-sub 2:04 men are scheduled to run including defending champ Sisay Lemma & 40-year-old Kenenisa Bekele are the headliners.
Kipyegon will try to win a record 4th global 1500 title while US champ Sinclaire Johnson will try to earn her first global medal.
Semenya is listed on the entry list in the 5000m. She didn't hit the 15:10 qualifying standard (her best was 15:31.50), but enough women ahead of her on the list didn't enter that she made it based on her world ranking.
Can Grant Fisher medal? Can Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce win global titles 14 years apart? And how about a Noah Lyles-Erriyon Knighton rematch? Worlds is going to be sick.
*MB: It's less than 10 days to 2022 Worlds. Here are JG's top 10 storylines. What events are you most into?
Hassan, who tripled in Tokyo, hasn't raced all year but coach Tim Rowberry said the last two months of training have gone well after a rough start to 2022.
*MB: Sifan Hassan is entered in 3 events at Worlds, will race 2 and is racing this weekend!!!
The medal hopes for Sinclaire Johnson and Grant Fisher just went WAY down. Studs Selemon Barega, Berihu Aregawi, Letesenbet Gidey, and Ejgayehu Taye will all double in the 5k/10k and Gudaf Tsegay has moved to the 1500.
There's been a clear 1-2 in the steeple this year, but reigning world champ Conseslus Kipruto, finally healthy, could be a factor once again.
*MB: 2022 World men's steeplechase preview: Who you got - Girma, El Bakkali, Kipruto? Does an American factor?
"I think the most important thing was his enthusiasm and passion," Rodgers says. "Billy [Squires] got you fired up." Squires once called Beardsley at 9:30 on a Tuesday night. "I got so fired up I wanted to go out for a 20-miler right then," Beardsley says. "I told him, 'Coach, from now on you can't call me after 8:00. I get too excited.'"
Plus it will serve as the debut for Eilish McColgan. Whose left for the other majors? We tell you.
*MB: 2022 London Marathon women's field is out and it will feature a record 5 sub-2:18 and 8 sub-2:19 women.
The excerpt above summarizes Tygart's position on the Houlihan case but the article doesn't quote him directly on that key point (the rival doping agency is implied to be the AIU). "We know that these innocent sources are out there,” Tygart said. “We need to work just as hard to exonerate the innocent as we do pursuing the true cheaters
*MB: Travis Tygart doesn't think Shelby Houlihan is a doper
It will be the half-marathon debut for the Olympic 10,000 champ Barega.
Who has the edge at 13.1?
Streleckis was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March but didn't let that stop him from engineering one of the most memorable seasons in prep mile history.
From world record chases to era-defining rivalries, here are the eight stories Jonathan Gault will be following closely throughout the 2022 track season.
As USATF searches for a bidder for the 2024 Trials, those in charge of recent Olympic Marathon Trials in Houston and Atlanta believe the Trials' financial model is unsustainable. Will anything change?
We paid one of the top sports scientists in the world to analyze the Shelby Houlihan doping case and CAS ruling. He has 2 pieces for us, the piece above is an opinion piece where he answers our questions. In a 2nd more technical piece, Ross goes through the CAS decision step by step and outlines in clear terms exactly what Houlihan argued and why he thinks CAS ultimately (correctly) ruled against her.
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Your latest American stars share their insights.
Keira D'Amato, the new American record holder in the marathon, was joined by Deena Kastor, who held the record for 15 years.
Sisson was the guest on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast after she became the first American to go sub 67 in the half marathon on a record-eligible course. Podcast highlights above. Full pod here.
Woody Kincaid joined us after he broke the American record indoors at 5000. He talks above why he left the Bowerman Track Club. Podcast highlights and link to full podcast here.
Coogan's New Balance Boston team had 3 Olympians in 2021 and 2022 could be the biggest year yet for the program with 2 new additions and the TRACK at New Balance coming on March 1st.
Danny Mackey has taken the Brooks Beasts from an unproven club to the Olympic podium in its first decade.
Dathan Ritzenhein is the first of the top pro coaches to sit down and talk about his club heading into the 2022 campaign.
