#athletics #trackandfield The 3 Women Led Off Course at U.S.
#HalfMarathon Champs Are Now Headed to Worlds After Initially Missing Out
#WorldAthletics is making an “exceptional decision” to allow Jess McClain, Emma Grace Hurley, and Ednah Kurgat to compete at the World Road
#Running Championships
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a70843734/us-half-marathon-worlds-exception/ 
The 3 Women Led Off Course at U.S. Half Champs Are Now Headed to Worlds After Initially Missing Out
World Athletics is making an “exceptional decision” to allow Jess McClain, Emma Grace Hurley, and Ednah Kurgat to compete at the World Road Running Championships.
Runner's World
Wow! 17-Year-Old Cooper Lutkenhaus Becomes the Youngest World Indoor Gold Medalist Ever
The high school junior took home gold in the 800 meters in Poland—on his spring break.
Runner's World#running #trackandfield #athletics
“the whole issue that’s been raised on a national level around trans inclusion or exclusion in #sports is this, pun intended, trumped-up issue”
Op-Ed: #Princeton Kicked a Trans #Runner Off the Track. Now #Athletes Are Organizing A Boycott
The alleged targeting of transgender #runners at non-professional events marks an alarming escalation https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/op-ed-princeton-kicked-a-trans-runner

Op-Ed: Princeton Kicked a Trans Runner Off the Track. Now Athletes Are Organizing A Boycott
The alleged targeting of transgender runners at non-professional events marks an alarming escalation.
Erin In The Morning
Quincy Wilson Pushed To Line Breaks HS 400 Record at New Balance Nationals Indoor [Full Race Replay]
YouTubeThis #running #trackandfield #athletics #shitshow’s still going
“The financial collapse of the #GrandSlamTrack league took another turn Monday when 3 vendors asked a #bankruptcy court for permission to file a $25-million lawsuit against the league’s leadership and its primary investor”
“allege Olympic champion Michael Johnson committed #fraud and claim the league’s primary investor, Winners Alliance, contributed to the organization’s financial downfall” https://athleticsillustrated.com/creditors-ask-court-to-allow-25-million-lawsuit-against-grand-slam-track-leaders/

Creditors ask court to allow $25-million lawsuit against Grand Slam Track leaders
Creditors ask court to allow $25-million lawsuit against Grand Slam Track leaders
Athletics Illustrated - *Featured photo: President of World Anti-Doping Agency Witold Banka, of Poland, speaks at the opening of the WADA Symposium for Anti-Doping Organizations at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 18, 2025. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)#running #athletics #trackandfield #halfmarathon #Atlanta Track Club announced that it will award the three
#runners the equivalent prize money for the positions they were in when the race got derailed, which is very generous. A subsequent
#USATF statement had more good news in store for McClain: She might get to go to Worlds after all. 'That team is not officially selected until May,’ the statement read. '
#USATF will review the events from
#Atlanta carefully … “
https://defector.com/u-s-half-marathon-championships-thrown-into-chaos-after-leaders-accidentally-led-off-course 
U.S. Half-Marathon Championships Thrown Into Chaos After Leaders Accidentally Led Off Course | Defector
Jess McClain was cruising to her first U.S. half-marathon championship this past weekend in Atlanta when the lead vehicle in charge of driving the course ahead of her made a wrong turn with less than two miles to go, sending her and the other would-be top-three runners off the course and costing them the benefits…
#running #trackandfield “The Anti-
#Doping Agency of
#Kenya (ADAK) has provisionally suspended 27
#athletes for violating anti-
#doping rules … once again places the East African
#athletics powerhouse under uncomfortable global scrutiny”
"A common thread among Kenyans are agents and coaches, while unproven, seem to enable the
#athletes to dope”
"That the suspensions span
#athletics, football, basketball, and volleyball underscores the systemic challenge”
https://athleticsillustrated.com/more-kenyan-athletes-have-been-banned-for-doping-related-offences-including-45-year-old-rita-jeptoo-previously-banned/ 
More Kenyan athletes have been banned for doping-related offences, including 45-year-old Rita Jeptoo, previously banned.
More Kenyan athletes have been banned for doping-related offences, including 45-year-old Rita Jeptoo, previously banned.
Athletics Illustrated - *Featured photo: President of World Anti-Doping Agency Witold Banka, of Poland, speaks at the opening of the WADA Symposium for Anti-Doping Organizations at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 18, 2025. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)