"This is what you want as a professional runner... I feel like I am just getting started. But at the same time, I have been dreaming of this for my whole life."
By Bob Ramsak for World Athletics
Jakob Ingebrigtsen capped his stunning rise from precocious talent to global middle distance...
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"I’ve never been to the Olympics, but I’ve been able to execute on stages I’ve never been to before and I think this should be the same way.”
By Chris Chavez, Sports Illustrated
After a four hour delay due to extreme temperatures from a rare Pacific Northwest heat wave, the fans at Hayward...
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"I really want to make the final. That’s a big goal. And then once I’m in the final, I think I just have just as good a shot as anyone."
By Sieg Lindstrom, Track & Field News
Headed to Tokyo as the youngest U.S. men’s 1500 Olympian since Villanova’s Marty Liquori in ’68, Cole Hocker, 20,...
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The youngest outdoor national champion in the 1500 or Mile since 1911: “This whole year, I felt like I was proving myself to the world, but also proving my talent to myself."
By David Woods, Indianapolis Star
Over the course of three minutes, Cole Hocker was far from the desired destination,...
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Sophomore sets meet record in the Mile: “I definitely feel like I’m in the best shape of my life."
By David Woods, Indianapolis Star
Cole Hocker did everything he could have done except set a world record. If he had gone for it, you never know.
“I definitely feel like I’m in the best shape...
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The secret behind this winter’s Duck Mile breakout, if there is one, is coach Ben Thomas, according to his athletes.
By Sieg Lindstrom, Track & Field News
Miling is breaking out in Duck Town. Again. With head-scratching times and depth. Many aspects of life have come without precedent in the...
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Indiana high school senior, University of Oregon bound, produces high achievement on low mileage
By David Woods, Indianapolis Star
INDIANAPOLIS – With shoulder-length blond hair and piercing blue eyes, Cole Hocker resembles a teen rock star. He is something of a musician, teaching himself to...
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