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Our 15 most popular articles ever, hits wise, regularly updated. Listed based on date published...
September 11, 2009
By LEN JOHNSON We pretty well began these columns writing about what a wacky event the 800 metres was and how it had replaced unpredictable events like the pole vault as the flakiest on the championship...
August 7, 2009
By LEN JOHNSON You would be tempted to say that Caster Semenya, the 18-year-old South African who has made an amazing break-through in women’s 800 metres, could not possibly come from obscurity...
July 5, 2009
For 28 years, UCLA has had one thing that no other program could match: Art Venegas. A throws guru, a rousing speaker, and a fierce competitor, Art Venegas built up a throws program at UCLA that...
July 5, 2009
Shawn Forrest could be Australia's most under-rated distance runner. Currently on a scholarship with Arkansas, we managed to catch up with Shawn shortly after hs brilliant 2nd place to Galen Rupp...
June 23, 2009
By LEN JOHNSON The 1979 Victorian marathon championship was a minor race, but it had major outcomes. Thirty years ago this month (23 June, 1979), the championship was the debut marathon for Robert de...
May 19 2009
In 1960, at the Rome Olympics, when three of Arthur Lydiard's athletes won Olympic medals within the space of one hour, Lydiard's name was etched into the history books as the most influential coach of...
May 12, 2009
Ato Boldon was one of the most successful sprinters we have ever seen. And when you consider that he was a part of the Linford Christie, Frankie Fredericks, and Carl Lewis generation, that's saying something....
May 4, 2009
Hello Runnerstribe I have just returned from the States, where I have been since the World Cross Country in Jordan, training and racing, as you have heard from other journals on runnerstribe, there were...
April 13, 2009
It's been a week since my first journal entry and quite a lot has happened since then. I'm writing this as I sit inside our cabin at Laguna Mountain, a bit over an hour outside San Diego at 6000ft altitude....
March 27, 2009
By Bryan Green One of my favorite columns from one of my favorite columnists is the annual NBA Trade Value column by The Sports Guy at ESPN. In it, he basically tries to rank all the top players...
German Fernandez and World Cross
March 19, 2009 By Bryan Green I don't make any claims to be a track and field historian, but I can't think of any precedent for the decision recently made by German Fernandez. A freshman, arguably a favorite...
March 9, 2009
There is little doubt that Australian junior distance running is experiencing a golden era, perhaps like never seen before. Leading that charge is none other than 18 year old Ryan Gregson. Gregson at...
Febuary 23, 2009, 2009
Flash Chat with Kenenisa Bekele © 2008 The Runner's Tribe, all rights reserved. "He is not Jesus Christ because he can't walk on water. But on land, no one can beat Kenenisa Bekele" - Jos...
Febuary 19, 2009
Jon Rankin: Miler, Writer & Scholar © 2008 The Runner's Tribe, all rights reserved. Jon Rankin has to be one of the nicest guys with whom I have ever chatted with, it is obvious that here is...
Thursday, November 6, 2008
© 2008 The Runner's Tribe, all rights reserved. The nineteen eighties decade was a rich one for middle distance running. In Britain the likes of Cram, Coe and Ovett dominated, whilst in Africa, Said...
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