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July 01, 2024

6 Takeaways from Super Sunday at the 2024 US Olympic Trials

In the span of 60 minutes on Sunday, six meet records fell in the track events, including Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone's 50.65 WR in the 400 hurdles.
June 29, 2024

Grant Holloway Rips 12.86 to Win Olympic Trials 110 Hurdles as 3 Men Break 13.00 For the First Time in One Race

Freddie Crittenden (12.93) and Daniel Roberts (12.96) rounded out Team USA in a historically fast race as Cordell Tinch's 13.03 was not enough to make the team.
June 26, 2024

Olympic Trials Week 2 Preview: Is It Kelati's Year? New Faces in Steeple, Can Fisher or Hocker Complete the Double?

We preview the women's 1500, 10k, and steeple and men's 800 and 5k as the second half of the Trials kicks off on Thursday.
June 24, 2024

Noah Lyles Takes Care Of Business to Win Olympic Trials 100m as Christian Coleman Misses Out

Lyles tied his pb by running 9.83 with Kenny Bednarek (9.87) and Fred Kerley (9.88) joining him on the team to Paris, while Coleman was 4th in 9.93.
June 23, 2024

Olympic 1500m Qualifying Explained: Which Men Need the Standard in the Trials Final?

We explain what all 12 men in the field for Monday's final need to do in order to qualify for the Olympic 1500 meters.
June 22, 2024

Grant Fisher Wins 2024 US Olympic Trials 10K as Woody Kincaid & Nico Young Clinch Paris Spots

After finishing 2nd, 2nd, and 4th the last three years, Fisher finally won the US 10k title, taking off with 1k to go and using a 4:06 final 1600 to break the field.
June 21, 2024

Matthew Centrowitz Withdraws from 2024 Olympic Trials Due to Hamstring Injury

The 2016 Olympic 1500m champion had been seeking to make a fourth straight Olympic team and is in Eugene, but felt he was not in a position to be competitive due to the injury.
June 19, 2024

Erriyon Knighton Cleared to Compete at Olympic Trials after Provisional Suspension Is Lifted

Knighton had been provisionally suspended since April 12 after testing positive for the banned substance trenbolone -- the same substance for which Jarrion Lawson was banned (and subsequently cleared). Article includes statements from USADA head Travis Tygart as well as Knigton's lawyer Howard Jacobs. *MB: Erriyon Knighton Cleared by USADA After Provisional Suspension for Trenbolone (Tainted Meat Deemed Likely) 
June 19, 2024

Olympic Trials 100 Preview: Sha'Carri, Noah Lyles, & Could a High Schooler Make the Men's Team?

Right now, Sha'Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles are favorites for Olympic gold. Will that still be the case after this weekend's 100s? Could 18-year-old Christian Miller really make the team? What shoes will Fred Kerley wear?
June 18, 2024

Olympic Trials M10K Preview: Can Grant Fisher Finally Win It? Does Nico Young Make the Team?

The first final of the 2024 US Olympic Trials features four studs -- Fisher, Young, Woody KincaidPaul Chelimo -- vying for three spots to Paris. *MB: Official US Olympic Trials Men's 10k thread: Jon Gault says Woody Kincaid is your winner, do you agree?.
June 17, 2024

Bob Schul, America's Only Olympic 5,000m Champion, Dies at 86

Competing against legends Kipchoge Keino and Ron Clarke in the 1964 Olympic final in Tokyo, Schul used a 38.7-second final 300m to win an iconic gold medal. His daughter confirmed his death to LetsRun. *MB: RIP: Bob Schul - America's only Olympic 5000m gold medallist - has died at age 86.
June 14, 2024

Kenyan Olympic Trials Day 1: Faith Kipyegon Is Back, Mary Moraa Is Beaten, Reynold Cheruiyot Wins 1500 Thriller

Kipyegon crushed 10k WR holder Beatrice Chebet by 6 seconds while Moraa lost to Lilian Odira and Reynold Cheruiyot edged out Daniel Munguti and Timothy Cheruiyot.
June 12, 2024

Here's Why World Athletics Added Leonard Korir to 2024 Olympic Marathon Field

WA told LetsRun: "Following a thorough analysis of athletes intending to participate in more than one event -- it was determined that the quota would allow for some additional athletes to participate in the marathon."
June 08, 2024

Joe Waskom Has That Dawg in Him, Shane Cohen Channels Robby Andrews, & More Thoughts from 2024 NCAAs

Waskom showed once again why he's such a great championship racer while Cohen's fairytale NCAA season ended with a national title.
June 08, 2024

Parker Wolfe Rips 1:52 Final 800 to Win Stacked 2024 NCAA 5,000m Final

Nico Young was 110m away from closing out a season for the ages with an NCAA outdoor title, but UNC's Wolfe was just too good.
June 06, 2024

10K Road WR Holder Rhonex Kipruto Banned Six Years for ABP Violations

The AIU has upheld its suspension of Kipruto who will lose his 10k road world record and 2019 Worlds 10k bronze as a result. Kipruto is the first athlete coached by the famed Brother Colm O'Connell to receive a ban and he went to great lengths to try to prove his innocence. In addition to creating a website, he went on a series of benders over the span of 7 weeks to see if that would impact his blood values in the ABP as he admits he's an alcoholic. *Rhonex Kipruto 6-Year Ban Official
June 04, 2024

World Athletics Adds Ranking Spots to Olympic Men's Marathon Field -- American Leonard Korir Will Run in Paris

World Athletics added one universality place and four rankings places to the Olympic marathon field on Tuesday with the four ranking spots were awarded to athletes from Chile, South Africa, the United States, and Australia, meaning that Leonard Korir will join Americans Conner Mantz and Clayton Young on the Olympic marathon start line on August 10. *MB: Is Korir back in? World rankings updated overnight.