Track Minute: Cole Hocker and Grant Fisher to Face Off at Millrose

Cole Hocker and Grant Fisher to face off at Millrose Games

Each off their podium performances in Paris, Fisher and Hocker are set to compete in the 3000 meters at the 2025 Millrose Games on February 8. In head-to-head competition, Fisher was undefeated against Hocker in 2024, having bested him twice outdoors in the 5000m and once indoors, at last year’s Millrose 2-mile race.

Brooks Beast Marta Pen Freitas shares about her breast cancer diagnosis while training for the Paris Games

In a feature with Self Magazine, Freitas, a two-time Olympian from Portugal, was diagnosed with stage 1, triple-positive breast cancer in May 2024 while training for the Paris Olympics. Despite undergoing a lumpectomy and radiation therapy, she continued to train and compete, achieving her best times of the season in two races before deciding to pause her Olympic pursuit due to fatigue. Freitas’s first race back was at the Sound Running Cross Champs in November and plans to vie for a spot at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo.

LA28 Chair Casey Wasserman expresses concern for future of non-revenue college sports

At the Sports Business Journal’s Intercollegiate Athletics Conference, Wasserman said, “I think we’re at this turning point which is, college [football] is absolutely the second-most popular and valuable sport in America; it’s not even a question. The question is, do they monetize that opportunity and keep all the money in college football and don’t share it, so college football becomes its own entity, away from the NCAA? In this country, all of our American athletes who are Olympians, are trained in universities. So if we lose that system, we don’t have Team USA any more.”

UK Athletics facing £2 Million Olympic funding cut

Despite securing ten medals at the Paris Olympics, UK Athletics is facing a potential £2 million reduction in government and lottery funding for the upcoming Olympic cycle. This anticipated 10% cut from the £22.7 million received for Paris comes amid the organization's financial challenges, including a reported £3.7 million loss in the 2022-23 fiscal year. UK Athletics is actively lobbying UK Sport to reconsider the funding decision, emphasizing the potential negative impact on athlete support and preparation for future competitions.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Masai Russell, and Quincy Hall are USATF Wing Award winners

McLaughlin-Levrone was honored as the most dominant American track and field athlete of the Games, while Russell captured the Breakthrough Performer award and Hall the Most Inspirational Performance honor. The Wing Awards are decided by a fan vote and were presented at the recent USATF Annual Meeting in Orlando. Other contenders for the awards included Valarie Allman, Ryan Crouser, Rai Benjamin, and Anna Cockrell, among others.