Muslim Medalists at the World Championships
Track and field was able to steal a little bit of attention from early-season football and playoff-race baseball last week, as the 2025 World Athletics Championships took place in Tokyo, […]
Fahmi Sets the Tone for NCAA Relay Champs
Last summer, Azeem Fahmi ran in the Paris Olympics representing the Muslim-majority nation of Malaysia. In the very first heat of the preliminary round of the men’s 100-meter dash, Fahmi […]
Hassan Voted World Athlete of the Year
Because 2024 was an Olympic year, track and field had the world’s attention, as it tends to do every four years. With the spotlight turned up as high as it […]
Davis-Woodhall Is the New Face of Long Jump
There’s a difference between being the best in the game and the face of the sport. Football people know this. The NFL recently unveiled its annual “Top 100” ranking, in […]
Long Jump Has Become a Long Shot for Team USA
I’m a track and field nerd, and an even bigger long jump nerd, so bear with me here. In Sunday’s qualifying round of the men’s long jump at the Paris […]
Olympic Vet Barshim Clears the Bar for Greatness
This is it for Mutaz Essa Barshim. Most likely. One of the greatest high jumpers in history is 33 years old going into the Paris Olympics this week, which means […]
Saminu Shines at NCAAs Ahead of Olympic Summer
Timing is everything in track and field. And the timing is working out to where Abdul-Rasheed Saminu could eventually hold triple-status as an Olympian, a world champion, and one of […]
Muslim Medal Winners at the Year’s Biggest Track Meet
Track and field’s most prominent stages have been on shaky ground for the last few years. And that’s not just because the sport lost its biggest superstar when Jamaican sprint […]
Olympic Champ Muhammad Sets New World Record
Watch enough track and field meets, and you’ll eventually hear an athlete or an announcer reiterate the theory that the 400-meter hurdles race is perhaps the toughest single event in […]
Muslim Medal Winners at the IAAF World Championships
As much as the 2017 IAAF World Championships of track and field were about bidding farewell to a pair of legends, it was also about introducing some fresh faces that […]
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