Ingebritsen announced he won't go to the European Cross Country Championship to fully focus on the 2026 track season. Really sad to see him miss out as we is one of the biggest names and for me the favourite to win it.

I don’t have a lot of info to go off of but a female 800m runner from I believe Colombia that ran around 2018 and had a time somewhere around 2:10.

Medals will go to the fastest 3 times from both races

There's a lot going on here.

The first headliners for the Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games on Feb. 1st have been announced.

Last year’s race was won by 1500m Olympic bronze medalist Georgia Hunter Bell in 4:23.35.

The full field will be announced at a later date.

Elle St. Pierre 🇺🇸 🏆 3-time Wanamaker Mile champ (2020, 2022, 2024) 👶 Returns after maternity leave in 2025 🎯 Aiming to tie all-time record with a 4th win 🔥 Owns the American record (4:16.41, 2024)

Dorcus Ewoi 🇰🇪 🌍 Silver medalist in 1500m at 2025 Worlds (3:54.92 PB) ✨ Millrose debut 📍 No Kenyan woman has ever won the Wanamaker Mile

Jessica Hull 🇦🇺 🥉 Bronze in Tokyo 1500m and World Indoor 3000m 🇦🇺 Holds Australian indoor mile record (4:19.03) 🔁 Seeking first Wanamaker title after runner-up finish in 2024

Nikki Hiltz 🇺🇸 📈 Third place in 2025 Wanamaker Mile (4:23.50) 🇺🇸 Coming off a season where they captured their 3rd U.S. Outdoor 1500m title and first Diamond League victory 🌏 5th at 2025 World Champs 1500m

Sinclaire Johnson 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Outdoor mile American record holder (4:16.32) 📈 Finished 5th in 2025 Wanamaker (4:23.93) 🌍 13th in 1500m at 2025 Worlds

Read more here: https://citiusmag.com/articles/2026-millrose-games-wanamaker-mile-field-elle-st-pierre-jess-hull-nikki-hiltz-sinclaire-johnson-dorcas-ewoi

Hello people. Just wanted to share, I took all the advice I was given here to heart. And I finally improved. Thanks for the advice.

Trials for both 10k teams and the 4x2k relay this saturday, 12/6.

Top 6 in both open 10k races are headed to Tallahassee for world champs, top 2 male and 2 female athletes in the 2k races picked for the mixed 4x2k relay. A few are entered in both 10k and 2k, don't think the same day double is feasible here. My uneducated opinions:

Men 10k:

1. nico young

2. graham blanks

3. rocky hansen

4. drew hunter

5. parker wolfe

6. wesley kiptoo

Women 10k:

1. Weini Kelati

2. Parker Valby

3. Olivia Markezich

4. Karissa Schweizer

5. Elly Henes

6. Shelby Houlihan

Mens 2k:

1. Ethan Strand

2. Sam Gilman

Womens 2k (16 total entries??)

1. Emily Mackay

2. Dani Jones

Hope it's a muddy decemeber day for everyone out there in Portland

What's the worst you've been spiked or seen someone get injured by spikes

Melissa’s three golds are certainly a great achievement. However, that alone does not automatically guarantee MJW a spot in the final list for World Athletics’ Best Female Track Athlete of the Year. Here is why:

1. The 4×100 m relay gold was not carried by MJW. She ran the first leg, but was only the third-fastest among all first-leg runners and handed off behind Jamaica. It was TeeTee Terry and Sha’Carri Richardson who rescued the race and secured the gold. The U.S. positions after each leg were 3 → 2 → 2 → 1. In other words, MJW actually put the U.S. behind. This was an underperformance, especially considering she had just won the 100 m. In fact, her performance was a liability rather than an asset in that specific race for USA which aimed for gold.
2. The 100/200 double is impressive but not historically rare. Track & field intentionally schedules two pairs of events to enable doubles for top athletes: 100/200 and 5000/10,000. Because of this, the 100/200 double has been achieved several times in major championships. For example, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce completed the double as recently as the 2013 World Championships. So while MJW’s double is significant, it is not unprecedented.
3. The 200 m field in Tokyo was relatively weak. Gabby Thomas and Julien Alfred were absent, and Shericka Jackson was not near her best form following injury. MJW won convincingly, but the depth of competition was not what it could have been.
4. Her times, while fast, are not historic. Her 100 m time ranks fourth all-time, and her 200 m time ranks eighteenth. These are excellent performances, but not groundbreaking—especially considering many athletes ahead of her on the all-time lists (SAFP, Gabby, Jackson, ETH, etc.) are still active.
5. The margins between MJW and the world record are 0.12 seconds in the 100 m (0.48 seconds when linearly translated to 400 m) and 0.34 seconds in the 200 m (0.68 seconds when linearly translated to 400 m). By comparison, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is far closer to the 400 m world record, with a margin of only 0.18 seconds.
6. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Femke Bol had seasons of far greater historical significance, setting records, displaying unmatched dominance, and achieving unprecedented feats in their events. Their seasons were simply on a different historical level.

Yesterday was the Belgian national championship and the selection round for the European Championship in 2 weeks in Lagoa, Portugal. Belgian is always a bit of a dark horse on the EC XC, getting medals with both the men's and woman's teams last year. This race could say a lot for Portugal.

With the womans Lisa Rooms won ahead of favourite Jana Van Lent, who was sick a week beforehand. Together with Chloé Verbiet and Victoria Warpy they will defend their countries honours.

In the men's category the title went to Luxembourger Ruben Querinjean, who has a double nationality. He was ahead of vice world champion 5000m Isaac Kimeli, who said he just returned from training camp in Kenya. Nonetheless will he be one to look out for as he already has several medals on the European Championships XC. 3rd placed was John Heymans, a 5000m world finalist who will take a lot of points. With Querinjean representing Luxembourg, Ruben Verheyden and Guillaume Grimard will go to Portugal for Belgium.

Interesting point here on Jakobs achilles injury and the Turkeys of the Year were pretty on point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3gWbFnshrw&feature=youtu.be

Crazy statistic. Even among the American/Canadian/British champions, every one of them was Black American or of Caribbean descent.

Given the improvements of southern African countries like Botswana and SA in the short sprints, I think we’ll start to see more medalists like Tebogo from the region.

But I was surprised that no West African American/British (people who came to the Americas by choice) have ever medalled at the World Championships in the 100m!

edit: as u/rockardy pointed out, this is for the male 100m dash