Today, 30 August 2021, marks the 30th anniversary of Mike Powell’s other-worldly long jump duel with Carl Lewis at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. In that… Read more “TAKING A MEASURE FROM THE PARALYMPICS”
Month: August 2021
COMPETITION
A recent RunRepeat survey discovered that nearly a third of the runners surveyed (28.76%) started running during the Covid-19 pandemic. What’s more, and not surprisingly, newbie runners… Read more “COMPETITION”
TESTOSTERONE AGAIN
In the first 2-mile race of her professional career, Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba beat Ethiopia’s 5000m world record holder Letesenbet Gidey by six seconds in Friday’s women’s 2-mile… Read more “TESTOSTERONE AGAIN”
OLYMPIC MARATHON AFTERTHOUGHTS
Everyone keeps breathlessly mentioning how Molly Seidel was running only her third marathon in bringing home the Olympic bronze medal from Sapporo last weekend. OK, but I… Read more “OLYMPIC MARATHON AFTERTHOUGHTS”
BUILDING ON THE TOKYO GAMES
Here we are once again, in Olympic withdrawal, basking in the afterglow of the Tokyo Games. And despite the challenges presented by COVID-19 and the lack of fans,… Read more “BUILDING ON THE TOKYO GAMES”
SPORTSMANSHIP OR EASY GOLD?
In this current age, competition seems increasingly out of fashion as the old binary of winning and losing (like male and female) has been deemed, by some,… Read more “SPORTSMANSHIP OR EASY GOLD?”
WANDERING IN A RUNNING WORLD 