Olympics The Canadian 5,000m men are on🔥 Plus, our U.S. Olympic Trials fantasy draft and a Canadian marathoning legend retires from the road
Olympics Marathon Team: Picked. Ben Flanagan: Track Nerd. Quarantine: Too Long. Marathon Team: Picked. Ben Flanagan: track nerd. Quarantine: too long.
Olympics Is Canada funding the right athletes? This week's newsletter deals with carding, close calls, and Cam Levins
Olympics Podcast: Cameron Levins beats buzzer, runs Olympic standard With just a week to spare, the 2012 Olympian became the fourth Canadian qualified for Tokyo, thanks to a 2:10:14 performance in a last-minute race across the Atlantic
Olympics The Rings: Canada's marathon squad takes shape, and was Dick Pound right after all? Cam Levins pulls off a last-minute marathon qualifying run in Austria, locking up his place on the team, plus further thoughts on vaccinating Olympic athletes
Olympics Introducing The Rings, a weekly Olympic update Welcome to The Rings a weekly update and podcast on all things about the upcoming Olympics, brought to you by The XC
podcasts The Greatest Training Run of All-Time? World marathon record holder and defending Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge ran 2:04:30, easily winning the NN Mission Marathon. But what does it mean for Tokyo?
Features Our Quenton Cassidy Moment COVID-19 may have robbed runners of races, but it has also gifted us with hours of training time, and an unexpected shot at redefining our limits — whatever we perceive them to be
podcasts Podcast: Two Olympic Hopefuls on Contracts, Trials, Training and Travelling During COVID In the JAS X CPT episode, the two 2021 Olympic hopefuls talk about their plans to hit standard, running for New Balance, the importance of Instagram and why the value of running contracts are always kept under wraps
podcasts Chasing Records on the Opposite Side of the World On the latest episode of The XC Podcast, Alex Cyr talks with Andrea Seccafien from her home in Australia. The Canadian half-marathon record holder is fit, healthy, and finally out of Australia's months-long lockdown
podcasts Gabriela DeBues-Stafford on the near impossibility of a 2021 Tokyo Olympics In a wide-ranging podcast conversation, one of the top 1,500m runners in the world talks about joining the Nike Bowerman Track Club, Tokyo, and crushing fantasy novels during the Pandemic
podcasts On the Podcast: What's Next For Running Folk Hero Cam Levins? Canada's marathon king faces a daunting deadline to qualify for the Tokyo Games and redefine his legacy
Shoes Are (Non-Nike) Carbon-Plated Shoes Causing an Elite Sponsorship Renaissance in Running? Running brands appear to be moving away from influencers and back to pro contracts in order to prove their super shoes are indeed fast. But as the Olympics approach and the shoe war rages on, will more new deals follow?
podcasts Our Bold Predictions for 2021 We make 10 wild (yet educated) guesses as to what might happen in the running world in these next 12 very uncertain months
Olympics Who Will Make Canada's 2021 Olympic Marathon Team? Canadian Olympic hopefuls in the marathon are running faster than ever, and it's making the qualification process so complicated. We explain who's in, who wants in, and how the team is picked
The Marathon Project It's Olympic Standard or Bust for Kinsey Middleton The Canadian-American knows she's got to do something special this Sunday if she wants to lock in her spot for Tokyo
The Marathon Project Ben Preisner Should Be Your Dark Horse Pick For Something Special at the Marathon Project He low-key ran a 2:15 marathon time trial by himself during the Pandemic. Yes, you read that correctly
The Marathon Project Rory Linkletter On The Marathon Project Alex Cyr talks with the Olympic hopeful Rory Linkletter about facing off against Cam Levins for a spot in Tokyo, and what he considers to be his home course
podcasts Adidas Finally Figured Out How to Make a Fast Shoe (and It's Really Fast) Kandie runs a sweet half, Tuliamuk is 31-weeks pregnant, Moh Ahmed gets snubbed for a Canadian award, and more
diamond league Can the Diamond League Actually Reinvent Itself? The world's most prestigious track and field series was facing a crisis even before the pandemic. Will it's sweeping new set of changes reignite the popularity of athletics?
USports And the Winners of the 2020 U SPORTS Cross Country-Championships Would Have Been... Had COVID-19 never happened, we would be in the midst of the 2020 U SPORTS championship season. Here, Alex Cyr takes his best guess at what the race's results would have looked like
podcasts The U SPORTS Year That Never Was, With Courtney Hufsmith and Eric Lutz Had sports not been cancelled this fall, the U SPORTS cross-country championship would be happening this weekend. Alex Cyr talks with two top athletes about what could have been
tech A Texas Uber Driver Created a Cross-Country Running Video Game Crossing-country running gets the most cross-country running of video games — beautifully simple, gruelling, and strangely thrilling
opinion "Totally Doping" Every time there's an "unbelievable performance," we're all thinking the same thing. Track and field has a cynicism problem
