This Week In Track & Field: World Indoors Biggest Winners & Losers; World Athletics Solves USATF’s Half Marathon Disaster; London Marathon Wants 100,000 Finishers

Chris Chavez, Kyle Merber, and Preet Majithia reunite to break down the biggest storylines from the World Indoor Championships in Poland. Preet joins fresh off the ground (and freshly sick) after going solo on three daily pods from the venue.

In this week’s episode:

- Intro: Preet’s field report from Poland (gingerbread review included)

- The Atlanta saga resolved: World Athletics approves a 7-woman U.S. team for World Road Running Championships

- London Marathon’s plan to go to 100,000 finishers — bold move or marathon chaos?

- Biggest winner: Keely Hodgkinson’s Super Sunday — 800m gold + historic 4x400 split

- Is Keely the face of track and field right now?

- Audrey Werro: the most underrated performance of the weekend

- Zaynab Dosso & Georgia Hunter-Bell: two more big winners on the women’s side

- Men’s 800m: Cooper Lutkenhaus goes undefeated and earns the world’s attention

- Men’s 3K: Josh Kerr out-maneuvers Cole Hocker, celebrates accordingly

- The Cole Hocker tactics debate

- Men’s 1500m: Mariano Garcia pulls off the surprise of the championships

- Jordan Anthony wins 60m gold — and why the Anthony vs. Lyles rivalry needs to happen

- Jess Hull appreciation: 13 global championships and counting

+ More

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Hosts: Chris Chavez | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@chris_j_chavez⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + Preet Majithia | ⁠@preet_athletics⁠ + Kyle Merber | @kylemerber

Produced by: Jasmine Fehr |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@jasminefehr⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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