Focus on the middle distances as World Indoor Tour kicks off in Boston
(IAAF News)

When the 2017 IAAF World Indoor Tour kicks off Saturday (28) afternoon at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, the fans packing the bleachers will be counting the Olympic medallists, a pastime learned over the 125 years of the city´s marathon. The draw of Olympic stars isn´t the only thing the Reggie Lewis Center´s banked oval shares with the rolling road course from Hopkinton to Boston: it´s also a place which has set up both historically fast marks and masterful competition.