Athletics Illustrated

© Copyright - 2023 - Athletics Illustrated Kenyan Kibiwott Kandie and Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei will race the Valencia Marathon in December 2023. This race, between these two incredible athletes, may turn out to be one of the sport's all-time...

© Copyright - 2023 - Athletics Illustrated Thirty-two-year-old British middle-distance runner Laura Weightman has announced that she will hang up her spikes and call it a career. After suffering several injuries and enduring surgeries and the recovery process, she...

© Copyright - 2023 - Athletics Illustrated When doping control officers (DCO) showed up at a track meet, many of the athletes fled including all but one 100-metre sprinter. Amy Poehler couldn't have written a more absurd sketch for...

By Paul Gains - Meteoric is one way to describe the rise of Samantha Jory’s running career which has already resulted in a bronze medal at the 2023 Canadian Half Marathon Championship. The 28-year-old from Duncan, British Columbia has raced competitively...

© Copyright - 2023 - Athletics Illustrated Who in their right mind would sign up for a marathon that has been cancelled three consecutive times? Former athlete Moses Tanui announced two days before the scheduled Eldoret City Marathon that...

© Copyright - 2023 - Athletics Illustrated So much for grave concern of cost overruns and white elephants. It appears that Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey, India and now Poland will apparently compete to bid on hosting the 2036 Olympic Games. The...

© Copyright - 2023 - Athletics Illustrated The Adizero Adios Pro Evo 1 racing shoe is good for one race and one race only and that's it. Good luck getting your feet into a pair. Collectors will seek them, keep...

https://youtu.be/9IMZLPg8Ykw Ethiopian Tigst Assefa smashed the world record at the BMW Berlin Marathon. She stormed to a tremendous time of 2:11:53 at the Brandenburg Gate and was poetically also 2:11 quicker than former world record holder Brigid Kosgei. The Kenyan...

By Paul Gains Afera Godfay won the 2019 Dongying Marathon in China with a superb personal best 2:22:41 then almost completely vanished from the world scene for a few years. There was a third-place finish in the Xiamen Marathon, also in...

© Copyright - 2023 - Athletics Illustrated Once again, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency also known as RUSADA may be declared non-compliant by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). It was recommended by WADA’s Compliance Review Committee that RUSADA be declared...