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Here's the Guliyev video. He looks like Secretariat against this field. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=308&v=y2quEIit85s As great as that was, it doesn't even compare to Shubenkov's margin of victory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLTPTk-zQTU Both of these wins are just stunning.

You beat me to it, Jack! I was just logging on to post the Guliyev news. A huge breakthrough. Also, in the same meet, Shubenkov continued his complete domination of the 110 hurdles. He has been unstoppable this year.

How about Nick Kurtz (BYU) 5 catches for 123 yards? Huge game.

Dafne Schippers just walked the last 100 of the 200 and still crushed the field. I'm not even exaggerating. She started shutting it down as soon as she finished the curve, repeatedly turned her head to one side or another. Walked it in like Bolt. In the previous heat, Lalova finished third...

Jack, I don't know if "soft" is the right word. Here's a new article about him, very sensitive to who he is. Grew up with that lisp, which he still has, teased, shy. Couldn't quite participate properly in team sports then was tested in a sprint which was freakishly fast. Still can hardly...

Thanks (I guess) for the video. As someone predicted, it very nearly did make me vomit. That was actually the worst position I've ever seen him in during a 200. I mean, his starts and curves are usually poor, but this time he wasn't even on the same track. He looked like one of those runners...

Okay, sprint lovers. In the men's 200, Guliyev is on to the final. Tsakonas couldn't keep it up in the second round. Talbot hit a PB but didn't qualify. LeMaitre, as expected, waddled around in a wind-assisted 20.34 (on a super fast Beijing track). Several women through to the 200 semis...

A ponderously slow 20.34 with a tail wind in the semis. Adjusted for wind, he probably would lose to Allyson Felix now. I wasn't able to watch the race. If anyone finds the video, please post a link.

I watched, too, and I agree with Jack's assessments. I would add that it reminded me of the old days when Guliyev and LeMaitre were both young and incredibly promising. Back then we had no idea which one would go on to have the better career. Their times were almost identical. Interestingly...

Well, that was awful. Christophe made it through, but he had the slowest qualifying time of any runner in 6 heats. In fact, 7 runners ran faster than him and didn't qualify. His time was the 32nd fastest of all runners. I'm stunned. I've been trying to be more optimistic this year, but...

I can't believe no one has mentioned the enormous doping scandal that erupted a few days ago. As most of us have suspected all along, the Kenyans are dopers, pure and simple. A German documentary has hidden camera video of Kenyan runners lining up for injections. It's also got Kenyan doctors...

European-athletics has been doing nice highlight pages of the junior championships, including videos of all the races. The most recent one has skinny 17-yr-old Benjamin Lobo Vedel winning the 400 over a lot of 19-yr-olds. He should have a future. 2nd place was a Norwegian decathlete. The...

Following up from yesterday, Ryan Gorman, 17, went out in an even worse wind (a blustery -2.7 headwind) and won the English schools championship in 21.41. He continues to put up these good times against strong winds. Nice to see a young phenom not fading away.

Reading about the young Italian's victory reminded me of an even younger Italian who excited us earlier in the season. Recall that Filippo Tortu smoked a 10.33 (O.6 wind) despite being just 16. Well, he hasn't stopped. In June, still before his 17th birthday, he ran a 20.92 200 (0.9 wind)...

I'm amazed at the pathological hatred for Lemaitre. You guys are just sick at this point. You jump with delight when he runs a poor time into a strong headwind. You practically orgasm when Jimmy Vicaut beats his record. Who gives a flying crap about Jimmy Vicaut? And why should his...

Jager is the best in the world right now. He has the number one time in the 1500, which isn't even his event, and, had he not fallen on the last hurdle, would have beaten the world's best in the steeple. Even after falling, he crushed the US record. He is now one of the favorites for World...

Hey, guys, I love Jenna Prandini as much as the rest of you (are there even words to describe her?), but someone's got to mention the other news: Nick Symmonds!!--after taking a year off due to injury, he came back, ran a fast time (sub-1:45) and won the US Championship yet again. Incredible ...

Also, Wariner didn't scratch in the 400. He ran a season's best and made it to the semis on time. Still, he has a ways to go to catch up with the youngsters.

Are you sure about that Kilty hamstring tear? I Googled and couldn't find any mention of it.

The, um, great, untouchable Vicaut just won the 200 in the Rabat world challenge in a time that was considerably slower than LeMaitre's despite Vicaut having much less headwind. So in the time since his "disappointing" 200m victory against a heavy wind, Usain Bolt and Jimmy Vicaut have both...

Bolt won the NYC Diamond League 200m today. His time was 20.29--not as fast as Christophe's winning time a few days ago. They both had headwinds. Does anyone doubt Bolt's time would have been under 20 without the wind? Incidentally, one of these days we should look up Christophe's races...

Oh, brother. LeMaitre beat Kilty by 0.33. That's an eternity in a sprint. 0.33 is the difference between a world class international sprinter and high school state champion. Yet you have nothing positive to say about Christophe while saying that Kilty looked good. You're so blinded by your...

Huge tip of the hat to young Laura Muir. She ran an incredibly gutty race to win the Oslo Diamond League 1500 today, over some top Ethiopians, among others. Laura was the only runner with the grit to follow the pacer. For two and a half grueling laps she built a huge lead over the field...

Well you can gripe all you want, but today he looked like the Christophe of old! He blew away the field in the Oslo Diamond League meet. Looked fast and effortless. No one was close. His time was 20.21 even though there was a strong headwind (-1.2). You turn that wind around and he's at...

I was very optimistic after the World Relays, but now I'm wondering if I put too much stock in those, given that legs can't be accurately timed. Assuming the relays were misleading then I think we all have to swallow hard and admit to a painful reality: Christophe was fastest as a lanky...