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The weather did its best to interfere. Cold rain swept through the Terry Fox Athletic Facility, temperatures sagged, and athletes spent more time searching for warmth than personal bests. None of it mattered to Andre De Grasse. Canadian championships have...

There is something about the trending numeronym "6 7" that brings the numbers to the cultural fore. We now seem them everywhere; they are inescapable. The numerical motif is a meaningless semantic placeholder, or it can mean whatever one...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) continue to clash over how doping control should be governed. USADA chief executive Travis Tygart criticized WADA for proposing changes he says would weaken the authority of national...

© Copyright - 2026 - Athletics Illustrated No one has ever accused the Czech people of lacking a sense of humour. Consider the common aphorism: Nač stahovat kalhoty, když brod je ještě daleko? Literally translated, it means, "Why pull...

World 100‑metre champion Oblique Seville will return to the Novuna London Athletics Meet on Saturday, July 18, carrying the kind of form and expectation that tends to follow a man who has finally stepped out of Jamaica’s long sprinting...

American middle-distance athlete, Jenny Simpson, was rushed to the hospital Tuesday night after collapsing at the Sir Walter Miler in Raleigh, NC. She was pacing an event. The 39-year-old Olympic bronze medallist stopped breathing and was provided with CPR before being...

Bekoji, the high-altitude, thin-air cradle of Ethiopian distance running, was at it again on Sunday. The town that has minted more Olympic and World Championship gold than most small nations hosted the fifth edition of the Ethio Telecom Great...

Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa is heading back to Berlin, and the BMW BERLIN‑MARATHON just became the gravitational centre of the marathon universe again. The Olympic silver medallist will toe the line on September 27 with one intention, and that is...

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© Copyright - 2026 - Athletics Illustrated https://youtu.be/vCLWMsOZ2qM?si=cFB60Z13Bv_tjlif Jaxon Kuchar ran the 3000m event at the 2026 Vic Track Classic. He finished second to Matthew Travaglini from Calgary in a new personal best time of 8:09.92. It is his first...