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– The Marathon Goes Solo 🥇
– Bring The Excitement Back To Pro Relays 🤝
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+ More News From The Track And Field World 📰
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World Athletics announced a major restructuring of marathon competition on the global stage, with a dedicated World Marathon Championships set to debut in 2030. The inaugural edition may be hosted in Athens.
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"I'm not going to be shy about my goals. I'm not afraid to fail."
Introducing Project 222 – Kerr and Brooks' plan for him to run a 3:42 mile and break the world record at the London Diamond League in July.
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🇺🇸 On a strictly one-time basis, World Athletics has approved an expanded seven-woman U.S. team for the women's half marathon at the 2026 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen (Sept. 19-20), up from the standard four.
More details in thread ⬇️
🔴 Why Clayton Young Signed With Brooks Before The 2026 Boston Marathon
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“Big change! 2026 – new chapter in the book. I am proud to be a Brooks athlete at the Boston Marathon.”
✍🏻 U.S. Olympian Clayton Young has signed with Brooks and will be making his debut for the brand at next month’s Boston Marathon.
📰 Details here: citiusmag.com/articles/cla...
"No one's going to hustle or care as much as you do & no one's going to understand you as well as you do."
Clayton Young on the process of negotiating his own contract w/ Brooks + what he learned in the process. We also discuss his training for Boston.
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Thoughts on the Adaejah Hodge doping suspension ⬇️
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Adaejah Hodge, who just led Georgia to the NCAA Indoor Championships title, received a 2-year ban for testing positive for a prohibited substance, but her sentence was shortened by 7 months after she provided substantial assistance to anti-doping authorities.
Details ⬇️
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🇺🇸 Team USA's roster update for World Indoors
Elle St. Pierre, the '24 World champ who finished 2nd in the 3000m at the US Championships, has scratched due to personal circumstances. Not injury-related, per coach Mark Coogan
Will be replaced on the roster by Team NB Boston teammate Margot Appleton
Jacob Kiplimo’ splits:
5km – 13:28 (13:28)
10km – 27:00 (13:32)
15km – 40:52 (13:52)
20km – 54:23 (13:31)
21.1km – 57:20 (2:57)
That's an average of 4:22 per mile for 13.1 miles 🔥
But still unresolved: How USATF will determine its Team USA members for the World Road Running Championships. 🇺🇸
Updated this after the Atlanta Track Club has released its investigation into the police emergency that caused the misdirection and left the key race intersection unattended. 🚨
💰They have offered to pay out prize money to Jess McClain ($20,000), Hurley and Kurgat ($9,750 each).
On the USATF Half Marathon Championships controversy...
Seems like everyone agrees to having Jess McClain, Emma Grace Hurley, and Endah Kurgat on Team USA for the World Road Running Championships. Getting there through USATF's existing rulebook is the messy part.
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What a weekend! We had a lead vehicle drive the top women off course at the USATF Half Marathon Championships. @preetmajithia.bsky.social & I sort through that mess + what happens next.
Oh! And the biggest performances at the USATF Indoor Championships!
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🇺🇸 USATF Indoor Championships Preview
📍Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex, Staten Island, NY.
📆 Saturday, February 28 – Sunday, March 1
How to watch: Saturday’s events will all be streamed on USATF.TV + Sunday’s marquee events will air live on NBC & Peacock
More👇
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My guest on The CITIUS MAG Podcast is Ethan Shuley & if you didn’t know his name as of a few weeks ago, you weren’t alone. He just ran 2:07:14 at the Osaka Marathon, becoming the 7th-fastest American.
Get to know all about him, his training & how this all happened ⬇️
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Who Is Ethan Shuley? The Story Behind One of the Most Surprising 2:07s in American Marathon History
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Meet America’s newest (and most unlikely) 2:07 marathoner.
Ethan Shuley joins The CITIUS MAG Podcast.
Subscribe now so you don’t miss the episode ⬇️
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🚨 EMERGENCY PODCAST 🚨
Reacting to Keely Hodgkinson's 1:54.87 indoor 800m world record ⬇️
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It was destiny.
🇬🇧 Keely Hodgkinson is in the best form of her life and just took down the indoor 800m world record. The outdoor one awaits...
Quick thoughts on her 1:54.87 in Liévin (with @preet_athletics) ⬇️
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SHE DID IT! WORLD RECORD! 1:54.87!
KEELY HODGKINSON SMASHES THE INDOOR 800M WORLD RECORD!
We seem to have this tendency to try and trick ourselves before any race by thinking someone else other than Cole Hocker is the favorite. He's the clear favorite moving forward. He's the best middle-distance runner in the world right now.
🔴 Keely Hodgkinson is about to break the indoor 800m world record
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Another packed weekend of results to chat about with
@kylemerber.bsky.social + @preetmajithia.bsky.social
This week:
– Cole Hocker's 3:45.94 mile proves he's the best in the world right now
– Predictions on what Keely Hodgkinson runs in Lievin
+ more
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🇺🇸 Weini Kelati breaks her own American record in the half marathon with a 1:06:04 for second place overall at the Barcelona Half Marathon this morning
Today's splits for Keely Hodgkinson's 1:56.33 (No. 3 in history) at the British Indoor Championships
SPLITS
200m: 27.35
400m: 56.28 (28.93)
600m: 1:26.11 (29.83)
800m: 1:56.33 (30.22)
She had a slightly faster opening + final lap in her 1:57.18 PB from 2023 run but a stronger 2nd and 3rd lap today
The end is near for Jolanda Čeplak's 1:55.82 indoor 800m world record.
👀 Elle St. Pierre is entered in the BU Valentine Invitational mile. Seeded at 4:14. Her Team New Balance Boston teammate Katie Mitchell slated to pace in 2:07 through 800m.
She owns the indoor U.S. record with a 4:16.41 from Feb. 2024. The world record is 4:13.31 set by Genzebe Dibaba in Feb. 2016.
