The Most Awesome Female Runner in the World

This is the third installment of Malcolm Gladwell and Nicholas Thompson’s discussion of the 2015 World Track and Field Championships. Here are part one and part two. Nicholas Thompson: Wow. What an extraordinary end to the world championships. You must be doing somersaults! The Jamaicans dominated the sprints, Mo Farah won two more gold medals,

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Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana Runs Third-Fastest Women’s 5,000 In History

Don’t hand the 5,000 World Championships gold medal to Genzebe Dibaba just yet. Dibaba, who set a world record of 14:18.86 indoors this year, isn’t even the fastest women in the world for 2015 anymore as 23-year-old Almaz Ayana of Ethiopia an a sensational 14:14.32 today to win the IAAF Diamond League Shanghai women’s 5,000

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