OH MY HEAVENS!
🇺🇸 Cooper Lutkenhaus beats Olympic and World champion 🇰🇪 Emmanuel Wanyonyi 1:42.08 to 1:42.09 at the Oslo Diamond League.
The best 800m runner in the world is 17 years old. Fearless running by him.
An unprecedented decision: The NC State Board of Education's Independent Interscholastic Athletic Appeals Board has overturned the viral disqualification of Mallard Creek track star Nyan Brown in the NCHSAA 8A state championship meet.
Mallard Creek is now the co-8A state champion with Jordan High School.
The NCHSAA’s Board of Directors convened for an emergency meeting on Tuesday morning to confirm the decision, which was passed down from the Athletic Appeals Board.
More on this breaking story: https://t.co/KjYod1SgUx
I’m crying. They got non-enhanced athletes winning and doped up women running 11’s.
They just created another random track meet that you find out about from scrolling twitter.
This is ridiculous.
And track and field gives their officials too much power.
Imagine if an NFL or NBA ref could negate all points scored in the last 10 minutes of play off a single infraction. That's essentially what we do in track.
There are no minor penalties. It's dumb.
Here's how many food & beverage items the PGA Championship was anticipating being consumed this week ⤵️
440,000 water bottles
165,000 bags of Frito-Lays
103,000 cheeseburgers
65,000 hot dogs
50,000 chicken sandwiches
33,000 breakfast sandwiches
Pittsburgh Zoo has agreed to trade 7-year-old male gorilla, Frankie, to Boston in exchange for 33-year-old silverback gorilla, Little Joe
Both trades were designed to 'provide a healthy, genetically diverse population of critically endangered gorillas in human care' 💯
(Via @PghZoo, @zoonewengland)