Tyson Gay beat Asafa Powell at the World Champs 100m. It looks like Safa choked again as he had been running more impressively in the rounds leading up to the final and also in the weeks preceding the WC. He had Gay through about 70m and then Gay passed him quite easily. It even looked like Safa might have backed off at the end costing him a silver medal. Oh well. At least the guy now has a major [...]

The track in Osaka is clearly VERY fast. Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell ran great 100m times (at least for quarterfinal races) while shutting things down at 85m and 60m respectively. Both Gay and 400m superman, Jeremy Wariner have already gushed over the new surface used in Japan. It's a double-layered softand hard rubber track that enhances traction. This means that unlike the fast track in Atlan [...]

Versus sports channel will be covering the IAAF World Champsionships this year in addition to site affiliate, WCSN. In my opinion this is great news for the sport that two up-and-coming sports companies will be showing the biggest event in track and field this year. I remember back in the day when you had to struggle to find an hour long, 1 week delayed, telecast of a  track meet....and most [...]

As I was putting together my team for the IAAF World Championships Fantasy League...I started to look through the IAAF lists to make sure I wasn't missing anyone to put on my team.  As someone who doesn't look at the world rankings list too often, the thing that really stood out to me was how amazing the Russian women are. They are AT LEAST as good and deep as our men's and women& [...]

The IAAF has put together a cool fantasy league game for the IAAF World Champs next weekend. Forum member, Ashley Mort, took the initiative to put together a league for the ELITETRACK group. To join the competition, go HERE. Once you've created an account, sign up for our buddy league by clicking on the menu item in the top bar and selecting elitetrack. Then put together your team. It's a [...]