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The Best of 202One
We had to wait two years for 202One. The athletes had to adjust to what amounted to the craziest circumstances ever faced in an Olympic build up. After all was said and done however, and the Olympic season was one of the best ever! ! Hats off to the athletes who performed most admirably. Literally every week of the season produced performances that could stand on their own in any year of competition. Leaving me to attempt the nearly impossible. Identify the best athletes of 202One. Don’t get me wrong. There were easily a hundred outstanding races, vaults, throws, jumps over the course of the year. What I’m going to…
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Lessons Learned in 2021
After a year and a half delay due to Covid, track and field finally got back on track! Literally and figuratively. Even though the first half of the season was conducted in mostly empty venues, the athletes were just happy to compete – and it showed. Mostly empty as in with no one but other athletes, coaches, and a handful of support to cheer them on. Yet, superb times and distances were cranked out week after week. Including several national and world records. Absolutely incredible when you stop to think about it. What started out as perhaps the greatest obstacle the sport has ever faced – the entire world shutting…
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Amazing US Male Sprint Depth
The Olympics and World Championships used to be fairly easy to predict. The US and Jamaica would split the sprint medals. Kenya and Ethiopia would split the middle and long distances. Europe would win the throws. And a hodge podge of athletes would scramble after the jumps and multi medals. That’s kind of how track and field had been divided up amongst the world. However, something changed during the two year hiatus caused by Covid. After the dust settled, the competitions were complete, and the results were finally tallied from Tokyo, most long time track and field coaches and fans agreed. The rest of the world had gotten better. Take…