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CeCe Telfer's National Title Emphasizes The Catch-22 Of Being A Trans AthleteBecause a large percentage of social conservatives only feign interest in women’s sports when trans women compete in them, CeCe Telfer is the most famous NCAA Division II track athlete in the country. Telfer, a senior at Franklin Pierce University, has drawn anger and outrage from all the usual grif...

Texas A&M Hurdler Wins SEC Title With A Daring Diving FinishTexas A&M hurdler Infinite Tucker was losing his grip on the lead of the 400-meter hurdles at the 2019 SEC Track & Field Championships. As he and the rest of his competitors finished the final two hurdles, Tucker and his teammate, Robert Grant, separated themselves from the rest of the pack. In orde...

This Never HappenedClick through for the ultra-slow-mo of a play the rules say never happened after being called back due to penalty:...

Haitian Hurdler Just Forgets To Jump Over His Hurdle, Apparently

Jeffrey Julmis of Haiti must have thought he was in the plain old vanilla 100m race instead of the 110m hurdles this afternoon. While approaching the first hurdle in the race, Julmis offered a meager hop, and ended up tangled up in it on the deck. ...

Kendra Harrison Breaks 100m Hurdles World Record

The 100 meter hurdles world record of 12.21 seconds stood for 28 years until being smashed yesterday in London by American runner Kendra Harrison—who didn’t learn until about a minute after the race that she’d broken one of track & field’s most impenetrable barriers....

The Greatest Hurdler In The World Makes His Escape From Perfection

This piece originally appeared in the June, 1988 issue of Esquire, and is featured in the essential new anthology, Great Men Die Twice: The Selected Works of Mark Kram....

Lolo Jones Ends Track Season, Pledges To Focus On Netflix

Lolo Jones, the world's second-most-famous track athlete, has called it a season despite three remaining meets left in the IAAF Diamond League, she announced today via Facebook. ...

Is Robert Griffin III Fast Enough To Run Track In The 2016 Olympics?

Is Robert Griffin III really a "world-class hurdler," as ESPN called him? In this week's Hang Up and Listen, Mike Pesca takes a look at RG3's times from high school and college and finds that, well, maybe it's not an exaggeration....