Runner's Tribe's Ross caught up with the worlds most high profile and prolific distance runner, Meb Keflezighi. Meb is the Michael Jordan of marathoning. Meb is the only athlete in history to win the New York Marathon, the Boston Marathon and an Olympic Medal. A graduate of the University...
Anneliese Rubie went a long way towards booking her ticket to Rio after clocking a crackerjack 51.69 at the world athletics championships last year in Beijing.
Earlier this year at the 2016 Australian Nationals, Rubie needed to finish in the top three to secure her Rio spot, which she did by finishing 3rd....
This week we take a look at some of our female athletes who are all at a critical stage in their individual careers. All four athletes that we focus on below are at different stages in their careers, but essentially are all looking for one thing - success on the international...
In the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, Burundi's Venuste Niyongabo won gold. During his race, the country's civil war that would eventually claim between 200,000 and 300,000 mostly civilian lives and left more than half a million people displaced, stopped so that soldiers on both sides could follow on the radio....
Abebe Bikila Remembered: The First African Great
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"Before Abebe Bikila, there were no runners in Africa, or at least no runners that the world knew about." - Haile Gebrselassie
If there was just one person who has influenced the running world the most, it...
Current Villanova senior Patrick Tiernan (Toowoomba, Australia) was among Australia's 61 selections to the Olympic team in Athletics. Tiernan will run the 5000 meters in Rio. Runner's Tribe caught up with this gifted athlete on his Road to Rio for this Q & A.
Road to Rio Interview with Patrick...
Hits from the Archives: Lachlan Renshaw Interview
This interview was initially published on Runner’s Tribe in mid-2008. Long since lost in cyberspace, we restore this piece for more to enjoy.
At this year’s World Athletics Tour meet in Melbourne a bomb was dropped by twenty-year-old Sydney-sider, Lachlan Renshaw. Renshaw won the...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom
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EUGENE, OR (29-Jun) -- Later this week, Ashton Eaton will once again compete at Historic Hayward Field in front of his home crowd seeking his second Olympic Team berth. The reigning decathlon Olympic gold medalist, world record holder, and...
REMEMBERING "THE GREATEST MARATHON" - LONDON 2002
By Mark Butler (c) 2002 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved
LONDON (14-Apr) -- Has there ever been such a day of marathon running? The 22nd Flora London Marathon saw the fastest ever run by a man and arguably the greatest ever by a...
Number 1. Alberto Salazar ja Robert de Castella (Marathon I)
A great film on two legends of the 1980's, 2:07 marathoner Rob DeCastella and 2:08 marathoner Alberto Salazar, who raced for the world record in 1983 Rotterdam.
https://youtu.be/71ExD5aGY1g
Number 2. Living Black Conversations S2014 Ep12 - Robert De Castella
Living Black host Karla...
