Seven months after finishing fifth in the Olympic 10,000m and ninth in the 5000m at Tokyo, Grant Fisher of the Nike Bowerman TC kicked off his 2022 campaign in stunning fashion Saturday night at the Boston University Hemery Valentine Invitational by bettering the American indoor record in the men's 5000m by more than seven seconds, clocking 12:53.73. Fisher's time made him the No. 5 all-time world performer indoors and came close to beating the best time ever by an American indoors or outdoors, which is 12:53.60 by Bernard Lagat at Monaco in July 2011. The existing indoor AR is 13:01.26, set in 2014 at Boston by Galen Rupp. Fisher's performance is subject to verification by the USATF Records Committee.