Peter Gambaccini

Bottom line: Whether you’re in first or second, always run hard through the finish line.

Americans Sam Chelanga, Noah Droddy, Gwen Jorgensen, Emily Sisson, Aliphine Tuliamuk, and Jared Ward were also in action during a busy weekend of fall racing.

The 41-year-old is chasing a new marathon PR at Chicago this weekend.

We pick the medal winners—and tell you how to watch—24 track races at the Olympic Games.

Action on the track starts August 12, and these events promise plenty of close finishes.

Americans who fell short of making Team USA are setting personal bests in Europe.

At the B.A.A. 10K, the marathoner cut 11 seconds off her own American record.

Kate Murphy of Virginia ran the third-fastest high school 1500 meters ever in Boston on Friday night.

The weekend included a history-making NCAA outdoor championships in Eugene, an Olympic Trials warm-up in Portland, plus fast performances on the roads in New York.

In 2015, this emerging star won more prize money than all other U.S. women but one.

Lawyer Ian Burrell swears this year’s Boston Marathon will be his farewell to elite competition.

Runner Ben True hopes to make the Games in Rio. His wife, Sarah, a triathlete, is already on Team USA.

Six of the first nine finishers of that Olympic race have been linked to performance-enhancing drugs in the years before or after.

Placing sixth in the 1500 meters in the 2012 Olympics, the American record-holder has now seen six competitors in that race implicated in drug offenses.

Abeba Aregawi, who beat Simpson for the 2013 world gold medal, is provisionally suspended.

High school phenom Drew Hunter lowers the indoor high school mile record that he set two weeks ago.

The meet also features a Matthew Centrowitz and Nick Willis rematch, as well as Shannon Rowbury's American record attempt.

The Ethiopian shatters the 26-year-old mark of 4:17.14 and now holds five world records.

The most popular distance runner in the U.S. is looking to earn a return trip to the Olympics, a quest that seemed highly improbable as little as one year ago.

He has the American two-mile record and is also a 2:12 marathoner.

Misiker Demissie, born in Ethiopia and later a Bahraini national, gets cleared by the IAAF to race for the United States.

Between the two races, 18 new athletes achieved the standard for the marathon trials, but a severe storm washes out a last chance in Florida.

From 2007 to 2011, he set one American record and made two Olympic teams. But since 2012, Hall has struggled with injuries and fatigue.

City government and a soccer club are locked in dispute over utility bills, which is the latest snafu to hit preparations for the Games this summer.

In his debut half marathon on Sunday, the three-time U.S. cross country champion was among the 17 men and seven women who achieved the trials qualifying standard for the first time.

Molly Huddle sets course record at USATF 10 Mile; Liliya Shobukhova wants to race in Rio.

Molly Huddle at USA 10 Mile; Twin Cites Marathon won't be disrupted.

Phil Knight would have signed Roger Bannister; Gebrselassie's final race is delayed.

Railroad lets marathoners cross its tracks; pack running.

Tokyo champ enters Chicago Marathon; USATF apparel policy will change.

World-leading times in Berlin; Tsegaye Kebede withdraws from Chicago.