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The Adjusted Diamond League Season Ends With World Leads and National Records

Article added September 28, 2020 Categories Featured News, News
Written By: TAYLOR DUTCH

The final stop on the 2020 Diamond League tour supplied another round of incredible performances. The COVID-adjusted Diamond League season came to a close with several world-leading times, national records, and career bests on Friday in Doha, Qatar. Three-time world champion Hellen Obiri ran her second world-leading time this year. The Kenyan distance star finished the women’s 3,000 meters […]

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Caster Semenya Loses Latest Legal Battle in Swiss Supreme Court

Article added September 14, 2020 Categories Featured News, News
Written By: ANDREW DAWSON

This might completely take away the two-time Olympian’s chance of defending her 800-meter title in Tokyo. Caster Semenya lost her appeal against track and field’s rules that put a limit on female runners’ natural testosterone levels. A Swiss federal court delivered the decision on September 8 that likely ends the two-time Olympic champion’s chances of defending her […]

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Joshua Cheptegei Is Pursuing Greatness

Article added August 25, 2020 Categories Featured News, Motivation, News
Written By: ANDREW DAWSON

Will We See the Newest World Record on Strava? A Q&A With Joshua Cheptegei We all saw Cheptegei stop his watch at the finish of his world-record 5,000 meters. Time to give him some kudos? Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei broke his fourth world record at the age of 23. In a year turned upside-down by the coronavirus pandemic, […]

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Joshua Cheptegei Breaks the 5,000-Meter World Record in Monaco

Article added August 17, 2020 Categories Featured News, News
Written By: TAYLOR DUTCH

The runner from Uganda took down a world record that stood for 16 (!) years. Amid the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Joshua Cheptegei still managed to produce a bright spot when he broke the world record in the men’s 5,000 meters. At the Monaco Diamond League meet on August 14—the first completely in-person Diamond League event […]

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This Doctor Ran A Marathon Wearing a Face Mask to Prove They Don’t Affect Oxygen Levels

Article added August 11, 2020 Categories Featured Columns, Featured News, News
Written By: EMILY SHIFFER

  “I feel for the people who don’t like wearing them, but this is one of the things that’s going to help us.” There’s no shortage of excuses that people give for not wearing a face mask while exercising during the coronavirus pandemic: Face masks are cumbersome, they’re uncomfortable, and they make it hard to breathe. Many people […]

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