BERLIN - An American met an old Jamaica friend, a fellow track and field devotee he hadn't seen in a year, walking the Kurfurstendamm on Thursday afternoon.
BERLIN - The tickets figure to sell like hotcakes once the precise dates are announced.
It will be Team USA vs. Team Jamaica in two high-energy, high-voltage, high-stakes, made-for-TV dual track meets that will provide some of the most excitement in the sport in the year 2010.
BERLIN - They adore their musclemen in this part of the world. The behemoths are beloved. They fill stadiums. Every time they flex a bicep, the crowds go bananas.
You had to love all this stuff.
BERLIN - Some still insist that Paavo Nurmi, "the Flying Finn," was the greatest distance runner of all time.
BERLIN - Last time they gathered the globe's fastest humans to the massive Olympiastadion, it took Jesse Owens a hand-timed 10.3 seconds to run 100 meters and into everlasting acclaim as the still-acknowledged greatest track and field athlete of all time.
Is one noted Floridan’s national record destined to be taken down by another Floridian?
“Youbetcha,” say flocks of Sunshine State track fans who’ve been fortunate enough to see Ebony Eutsey in full flight.
The sensational junior at Miami’s Southridge High School has been a state champion since her freshman year and heads to the Nike Outdoor Nationals in Greensboro, N.C. as both America’s fastest girls scholastic 400-meter runner (at 52.42) and a soon-to-be threat to Sanya Richards’s USA all-time girls best (50.69) notched for St. Thomas Aquinas of Fort Lauderdale in 2002.
A wrapup of the top girls matchups this week in Greensboro. Don't forget that you can watch all of the action live here on MileSplit!
A wrapup of the top girls matchups this week in Greensboro. Don't forget that you can watch all of the action live here on MileSplit!
Junior Danielle Tauro won the 1,600 meters (4:49.17), won the 800 meters (2:10.88) and wrapped up her humongous day at the New Jersey State Meet of Champions by reeling off a 55.9 lap that lifted her school, from far off the pace, to a medal-winning fifth place in the concluding 4x400 relay.
Who\'s who in the girls side of this year\'s Nike Outdoor Nationals? Elliot Denman brings us an event-by-event preview.
Their names are glittering. They\'re big-time achievers. They\'ve put their special talents on display in competitions all over the nation, and many have excelled in international action, too.