Chase Jackson

We have some heavy hitters on the women's side, obviously.

We have some of these track athletes, Masai, and Chase Jackson was mentioned for one of the field athletes.

But Thea Lafonge on 1525, which is also a big competition, or a big mark.

And sometimes these nominees are not just about the marks, they're about the performances over the course of the year.

If it were up to you, who your male athlete is and who your female athlete is.

So just as a reminder, here is your list of nominees on the women's side.

So we have to guess Asafa, Chase Jackson, Melissa Jefferson, Wooden, Agnes Zangetich, Marlene Paulino, Maria Perez, Cameron Rogers, Masai Russell, Aji Vero, Yan Zibi.

On the men's side, we have Kenny Benarek, Christian Che, Andy Diaz-Hernandez, Alessandro Santos, we can't talk today, Mondo Duplantis, Colin Kepeneshipi, Josh Kerr, Ramesh Chiranjah Pathraj, Sebastian Sawe, Jacobi Tharp.

So it's 25% each way with the public votes.

uh with uh athletes um and there's members of the media and the wild athletics family so those people like council members agents are part of that as well so um it's all being made up the sort of combination of of who's having who's having these votes so the women's shortlist agnes and get itch maria perez Melissa Jefferson Wooden, Tigas Asifa, Masai Russell, Oji Vero, Chase Jackson, Cameron Rogers, Mary-Lady Polino and Yan Xiyi.

That's the women's contenders.

The men, Kenny Bednarek, Rimesh Talanga Pathalage, Annie Diaz-Hernandez, Jacoby Tharp, Mondo Duplantis, Christian Che, Sebastian Sarwey, Colin Camillis-Chipi, Alison Dos Santos and our own Josh Kerr.

I'll bring it back to marathons in a second.

Chase Jackson, she told me, she said, listen, Nia, that grown man strength or that old man strength is something real.

Like, she broke her own American record twice this year, and she's only getting older.

I spoke to Devin Charlton after World Ultimates, and she was like, yeah, this is the best season I've ever had.