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The 400m record that stood for forty years is on watch
Two runners have gone under 43.5 this season. The track, the shoes and the schedule all…
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Sub-3:30 at nineteen: the last 400m
The bell lap of the fastest 1500m by a teenager this century, with the splits.
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The high jump’s next centimetre is a question of approach
Eight strides, a curve, and the physics of leaving the ground later than feels safe.
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Pole vault’s quiet arms race
Carbon, resin and a rulebook that has not caught up: inside the pole that added ten…
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What a month at altitude actually does
Red cells, sleep and the two weeks after coming down, measured on twelve distance runners.
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The meet calendar is eating the season
Fourteen meets in eleven weeks, and the athletes are voting with their hamstrings.
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Starting blocks: the first three steps, frame by frame
Reaction time is a fraction of it. Shin angle is the rest.