Preet Majithia
@preet_athletics
🇬🇧🇮🇳 Athletics Fan, Contributor for Citius Mag
It wouldn't be entirely untrue to say helping to work on this was one of the most fun evenings I have had in a while. If the calculations are right... @ChrisChavez did it. If they are wrong it is entirely my fault.
With a week to go until the women’s 10,000m at the US Outdoor Championships, a little bit of a shakeup in the World Rankings quota for Tokyo. • Only 2 women at USAs in the quota now? • What happened to Parker Valby’s spot? + scenarios for qualifying… citiusmag.com/articles/us-tr…
This was a long one but as ever lots to talk about and great fun recapping it all!
Final parting thoughts on Faith Kipyegon's sub-4 minute mile attempt – what we liked, what we thought could be better and what it means for her moving forward. Plus: An event-by-event preview of the Prefontaine Classic this weekend in Eugene, where she's likely going to try and…
Olympic Champion Keely Hodgkinson 🇬🇧 officially no longer on the 800m start list for the Pre Classic. Not a big surprise given the wording of statements around the Stockholm withdrawal but hoping for a speedy recovery!
H/T for the rec to @preet_athletics, but Ryan Crouser confirmed on the Podium Podcast with Hannah England, Richard Newman and Katie Smith that he WILL be in Tokyo no matter what. He also confirmed that USATF has officially changed their selection policy so that World Champions…
Well this should be fun!
Keely Hodgkinson, Jemma Reekie & Georgia Hunter Bell are announced for the 800m at the Lausanne Diamond League on 20 August 👀🔥
Following Charlie Dobson's amazing victory in the London Diamond League 400 here's the write up of my interview with him at the back end of last year which covers his reflections on 2024, his training setup and his ambitions for 2025 citiusmag.com/articles/charl…
It was great to recap some of the craziness from the London Diamond League weekend with @ChrisChavez on another episode of This Week in Track and Field for @CitiusMag open.spotify.com/episode/1QZyXf…
Athing Mu-Nikolayev is now on the entry list for the US Championships
Who is doubling? Who is missing? Who is scratching? A look at the entries for U.S. Outdoor Championships ahead of tonight's deadline for declarations. ⤵️ citiusmag.com/articles/usa-t…
Athing Mu-Nikolayev is now on the entry list for the US Championships
Who is doubling? Who is missing? Who is scratching? A look at the entries for U.S. Outdoor Championships ahead of tonight's deadline for declarations. ⤵️ citiusmag.com/articles/usa-t…
My favourite interview of the day with Innes Fitzgerald breaking Zola Budd's Euro U20 record and Hannah Nuttall achieving the world champs standard in the 5000m after some narrow misses and both running 14:39! youtu.be/HONy-u5ZBns?si…
Exciting news!
The UK Government has confirmed their support of our bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships and the 2029 World Para Athletics Championships 🤝 Please express your own support for the bid by sharing this across your own channel.
🗣️ “We shouldn’t be ignoring them. I think it’s great that athletes are coming out and running fast. Everyone’s in their own journey.” 10 of the 12 finalists from last year’s Paris Olympics 1500m have not broken 3:30 in 2025 — including all three of the Olympic medalists.…
Going to take my victory lap..in our bold predictions pod at the start of the year I said he would run the 200m (OK I also said he would target the WR but that looks less likely given the injury) open.spotify.com/episode/00K3UV…
🗣️ “We’re going to actually go to USAs and we’re planning to run 200s. We’re going to run every round. I’m still the national champion in that event. I don’t believe in giving up titles. I earned that title…and someone needs to take it from me.” Since he has the bye for the…
A brief timeline of events since Ruth Chepngetich's marathon world record... Oct. 13, 2024 - Ruth Chepngetich takes nearly two minutes off the marathon world record in 2:09:56 – becomes the first woman to break 2:11 and 2:10. In the post-race press conference, LetsRun's Robert…
Marathon world record holder Ruth Chepng’etich has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit after testing positive for Hydrochlorothiazide in a test on March 14th. The positive test came 5 days after her only competition of 2025. citiusmag.com/articles/ruth-…
Totally understandable and not entirely unexpected decision. Makes it unlikely she will compete at British Champs a couple of weeks later, though would be great for a home crowd to see her in action after Olympic Gold made her a household name given the lack of any other high…
Olympic Champion Keely Hodgkinson will not be competing at next weekend’s Novuna London Diamond League as she continues her preparations for the 2025 season. @_Novuna #LondonDL
Niels Laros with a textbook George kick. Where on earth did that come from?! He's been training with Timmy C so maybe that madness was a tactical masterpiece.
Being Indian and an athletics fan is hard work today...
In addition Jakob Ingebrigtsen 🇳🇴 is no longer on the Bowerman Mile start list. Also not a surprise but looks like he will need a bit more time to get back to racing fitness. Interesting to see if he still lines up vs Josh Kerr in London on Saturday 19 July
Some might say it's too early... Three years too early
