Workout for Sunday, August 15,  2026, Summer Mileage Program, Week 8,  Day 7 Time for the summer mileage program.  This is the end of week eight,  2 to go! We…

Welcome to our coverage of Day 5. It is six am in the morning, and I am sitting in our small farmhouse kitchen at the table provided by my Grandma…

BIRMINGHAM 2026 DAY 5 QUOTE OF THE DAY “It doesn’t sting because I was beaten by a great athlete. I think I put together a pretty good race. I don’t…

Tamberi takes his fifth European HJ title  Gianmarco Tamberi won the high jump at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham and then announced to the crowd that it was his…

Five  Takeaways from day 5 Medal ceremonies are boring. Well, I have always found them boring.  In Birmingham, they are not in the stadium but in a plaza.  A plaza…

Editor’s note: The Women’s 800 meters was absolutely, frigging fantastic. All three medalists are class acts, compete all out, and show respect to each other. It does not mean that…

BIRMINGHAM 2026 DAY 4 QUOTE OF THE DAY “It was quite chaotic to be very honest, even though I had quite a lead going into the last 1500m. I knew…

Five takeaways for day 4 There was controversy when Audrey Werro fell in the 800m semi-final and was then reinstated.  There was criticism that it was a political decision to…

Well, hello sports fans! Greetings from Wisconsin. As Stuart Weir covers the 2026 European Athletics Outdoor Championships on-site from Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England, yours truly is in the #Larrenhalle…

Editor’s Note: This year, 2026, is the fifty-first anniversary of the first sub-3:50 mile, run by Sir John Walker, 1976 Olympic champion at 1500 meters, on August 12, 1975. Walker…