Global Relay Teams Add Spice to Penn Carnival 2024

Organizers of the Penn Relay carnival will announce the final schedule of events soon for the 128th staging on April 25-27, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the US. And the much-heralded USA vs. The World Saturday afternoon feature will return in nature but not in name. In addition, some of the most premier college programs…

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World Records Close Out ’23 Pre Classic

The 2023 Prefontaine Classic (the final stop in the Diamond League series, which doubled as the Wanda Diamond League Final) ended on a high note, literally, Sunday (September 17) in the US city of Eugene, Oregon, with pole vault and 5000m world records as the two-day affair rose to a crescendo. Swedish pole vault sensation…

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A Vintage Thompson-Herah Emerges on the Horizon

Jamaica’s double-double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah is on her way back to where she belongs: the top of the Olympic podium. After two years of injury woes, slow times by her standards, a new shoe sponsor, and a new coach who knows how to work around her injuries, Thompson-Herah has found new life and renewed…

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Moments of Highs and Lows in Budapest

USA’s Crouser Slides to Gold USA’s Ryan Crouser, the shot-put world record holder at 23.56m  (77’-3¾”), managed to bring himself back from two blood clots in his lower leg as well as the stressing out over finding the safest treatment and wondering whether he would be able to defend his title in Budapest to heaving…

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Let Thompson-Herah Breathe and Do Her Job on The Track

Now that the track season is over, it is time to reflect on two unpleasant sentiments among Jamaican followers of the sport, one of which has caught the attention of many, even American sprinter Sha’Carrie Richardson. It is interesting that every time Jamaican senior women compete in a global 4x100m relay, a disturbing level of…

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No More USA vs. The World on Penn Saturdays

Some girls running at a marathon track

The 126th running of the Penn Relays will be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field, April 28 to 30, and the Philadelphia, USA-based carnival will be different from how it was in 2019, after which the event was suspended because of Covid-19. There will be no more USA vs. The World, an Olympic-development-segment…

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As The Track & Field World Turns to Kenya

Kip Keino Classic, Nairobi (May 7) • Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce posted the fastest 100m in the world this year, 10.67secs, to win her season opener at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold May 7 meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. The 35-year-old, who has won eight Olympic medals including silver in Tokyo last summer, was a comfortable…

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