BREAKING NEWS: With three years to go until the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, reigning 400m hurdles World champion 🇳🇱 Femke Bol has announced she’ll shift her focus to the 800 meters starting in 2026.
She leaves behind one of the most accomplished résumés in hurdles history:
🏆 2× World Champion (2023, 2025)
🥇 2× European Champion (2022, 2024)
🥉 2× Olympic Bronze Medalist (2021, 2024)
🇪🇺 European Record Holder — 50.95, #2 all-time
The Dutch national record in the 800m is 1:55.54 by Ellen van Langen when she won Olympic gold in 1992.
Next up: Two laps, no barriers.
EXACTLY 19 years later to the DAY, 🇺🇸Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone runs 48.29 to break the 400m American record set by 🇺🇸Sanya Richards-Ross!! 🤯 #WorldAthleticsChamps
SIFAN IS SIMPLY SENSATIONAL 🤩
@SifanHassan wins her fourth career marathon with a 2:18:22 victory at the @sydmarathon also becoming the first female winner in Sydney’s World Marathon Major era.
Hassan, the Olympic champion, separated from former world record holder Brigid Kosgei over the final 10km to bounce back from a third-place finish in London this spring, meaning she has now won four of her six career marathons.
📸: @nnrunningteam
Running used to be about grit.
Now it’s playlists, Strava likes, and overpriced ‘recovery’ tools.
Running’s about you—not what you wear or how many likes you get.
The first direct observation of gravitational waves captured the merging of two black holes which emitted 36 septillion yottawatts of power (3.6×10⁴⁹ watts), greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe.
[🎞️ SXS simulation]
thinking about EDC 2016 when it was 113° at 1 AM and this MF came by burning off my eyebrows giving me a heart attack thinking i was about to be sacrificed to Cthulhu for going to see the Chainsmokers mainstage