– Caster Semenya responding when asked for her views on the recent IAAF and WADA funded study on the advantage high testosterone levels give female track and field athletes.
Is one stage (130mi/200km) of the Tour de France equivalent to a marathon?
Ran 6min PB in Marathon, but missed goal time by 2 mins and feel pissed off. Wife says I'm greedy, is she right?
LRC Charlene Lipsey and Chris O’Hare Stay Hot To Win 800 and 1500 in London Lipsey is one of the best in the World right now. We recapped these events before the rest of the meet as they weren’t on the main TV window.
Mo Ahmed Wins Canadian 5000 Title Over Justyn Knight Ahmed ran 14:02.36 to beat Knight by .80. Melissa Bishop (2:00.26) and Brandon McBride (1:45.23) won the 800s.
Matt Hughes Rebounds From Freak Fire Hydrant Accident To Make Canadian World Team In The Steeple Hughes injured his knee when he ran into a fire hydrant back in March and only started training 6-weeks ago. But he bounced back to run 8:30 to win his 4th title and get the world qualifying mark.
Asian Champs Day 2: Hassan Taftian Won Iran’s First Ever Title In The 100m With A 10.25 Upset Victory Over Asian Record Holder Femi Ogunode Hosts India got a pair of golds in the 1500s from Ajay Kumar (3:45) and P U Chitra (4:17).
Asian Champs Day 1: Iran’s Ethsan Hadadi Highlights By Winning His Fifth Asian Discus Title Super hot conditions (90+ degrees) lead to super slow distance races as the men’s 5000 was won in 14:54 (slowest ever winning time) and the women’s 15:57.
Caster Semenya On New Testosterone Study: “I Don’t Have Time For Idiots” The current situation with hyperandrogenic athletes isn’t Semenya’s fault, but the truth is there are a lot of very intelligent “non-idiots” who don’t think she should be competing against women without hormone treatment.
Drew Hunter Wins 3000 In 8:14 As Americans Clean Up At Donegal, Ireland Meet USA also got wins from Kaela Edwards (2:03 – 800), Mel Lawrence (9:36 – steeple) and Robert Domanic (3:59 – mile).
Jo Pavey Ends Bid To Earn Spot On GB’s 2017 World Team Due To Heel Injury Sprinter Adam Gemili might be out of a Worlds spot as well as he pulled out of the Anniversary Games with an injury and he’s relying on committee selection for a spot.
Christian Coleman Will Only Run The 100 At Worlds With 48-races this year, his coach thought it’d be best to skip the 200.
Recommended Read: 14-Years Ago Perdita Felicien Became Canada’s First Female World Champion, Winning An Upset 100H Gold Over Jamaica’s Brigitte Foster-Hylton Felicien talks about her 2003 gold, her career and going on to become a sports journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation after retiring.
Recommended Read #2: US High Jumper Jamie Nieto Trying To Defy The Doctors To Be Ready To Walk For His July Wedding Nieto suffered a spinal cord injury when doing a backflip in 2016. Doctors weren’t sure if he’d ever walk at all, but now he’s up to 130-steps without a can or walker which should about get him from the altar to the church door on his wedding day.
LSU’s Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Returns Home To London As Britain’s Fastest Sprinter Mitchell-Blake was born in London, but moved to Jamaica at 13-years-old before coming to the US for college. Now he’s back in London to race at the Anniversary Games on Sunday.