Play 2015 Fantasy Diamond League with the Daily Relay!

May 12, 2015 | Kevin Sully

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The Diamond League begins Friday with the season’s first meet taking place in Doha, Qatar.  With it comes the promise of five months of high quality track and field, the presence of some marquee names like Mo Farah and, … Read More

The Monday Morning Run: Barshim goes higher, Gatlin doubles, Keitany returns

September 8, 2014 | Kevin Sully | One Comment

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The Diamond League finale in Brussels spanned the entire 2014 professional track and field season in two hours. The high jump was spectacular, the men’s 100 was controversial, an American woman shined in the mid-distances … Read More

The Monday Morning Run: Bolt says farewell, Simpson surprises, Farah cruises

August 25, 2014 | Kevin Sully

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There are only four sentences in the Usain Bolt’s Wikipedia page about 2014. Barring another early morning trip to the dentist, there won’t be anything left to add about this year. Bolt called it a … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups: The Diamond League Returns

August 20, 2014 | Jesse Squire

The Diamond League picks back up on Thursday in Stockholm’s historic Olympiastadion. (Photo credit: Johannes Scherman, Creative Commons)

The Diamond League makes its return after a layoff of more than a month. There are just four meets left in the … Read More

The Monday Morning Run: Mid-Season Diamond League Review

June 23, 2014 | Kevin Sully | One Comment

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You know it is a slow week in track and field when Jesse’s Weekend’s Best Match Ups post only goes five deep. The Diamond League was off last week, the Europeans were competing in their … Read More

Five Things We Learned in Shanghai

May 18, 2014 | Jesse Squire | 3 Comments

The Diamond League tour went to Shanghai today. Results are available from the IAAF and video is available from WatchAthletics.com.

Here are my five takeaways from the meet.

Sometimes it isn’t wise to go with the pacemakers. Arthur Lydiard once … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups: Shanghai Diamond League and more

May 15, 2014 | Jesse Squire

The USATF High Performance Classic at Occidental College is the first of many great competitions this weekend. (Photo: TrackandFieldPhoto.com)

It’s almost track and field overload this weekend. College track has its conference championships, the Diamond League and World Challenge tours … Read More

Doha Diamond League GIF Highlights

May 9, 2014 | Daily Relay

Ivan Ukhov won the high jump with a clearance of 2.41m. Three other competitors cleared 2.37 (Drouin, Kynard & Barshim) making for a great competition.

 

Asbel Kiprop ran a crazy fast 1500m, leading 6 guys under 3:31.

Ezekiel … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups: Diamond League, road races, and more

May 8, 2014 | Jesse Squire | 2 Comments

This weekend features the return of the Diamond League, a bunch of road races, and some interesting college matchups. Instead of ranking them, this week I put all twenty matchups (twenty!) in chronological order, starting with tonight’s Medtronic TC road … Read More

Daily News Roundup: World Record!

February 6, 2014 | Jesse Squire | 2 Comments

The reigning world indoor champion has just set yet another world indoor record. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)

Just this afternoon, Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran 3000 meters in 8:16.60 at the XL Galan in Stockholm. It’s a world indoor record, breaking … Read More