Latest Pre-Worlds News

• MB: Ethiopian steepler Chala Beyo gets screwed over by federation and left of WC team – Punches coach and gets banned for 2 years Beyo was third at the Ethiopian Trials and is the third fastest Ethiopian on the year but was left off their Worlds team.
• MB: 16-Year-Old Sub-4 Miler Jakob Ingebrigsten Added To Norway Team In The Steeplechase He ran 8:26 in his debut earlier this month and then won European U20 Champs.
• Eliud Kipchoge Says Kenya’s Marathon Squad Will Sweep All The Medals In London
• IAAF Extends Invitations To Four Additional USATF Throwers Who Didn’t Have The Standard They include Olympic hammer throwers Rudy Winkler and Kibwe Johnson.
• Former Villanova All-American Jordan Williamsz Among 14 More Australians Added To World Squad 14 more got in thanks to the IAAF invitations to fill the fields.
  *6 Villanovans Going To London

Doping News

• Dafne Schippers: “I hate when people see my skin and say I’m a drugs cheat, acne doesn’t mean I dope.” Schippers also says her relationship with Jamaican rival Elaine Thompson is “very bad.”
• Jessica Ennis-Hill And The USA Women’s 4 X 400 Squad Among Those Who Will Receive Re-Allocated Medals At London Worlds Kara Goucher and Jo Pavey will also receive their silver and bronze medals from the 2007 Worlds 10,000 after they originally finished 3rd and 4th.
  *NY Times Article With Quote From Kara Goucher
• Russian Athletes Going To Worlds As Neutrals Will Still Be Paid By The Russian Government The “neutrals” can also win IAAF prize money for their placing at the championships, but the Russian national anthem will not be played if they win.
• Russian Sports Minister Hoping Russia Reinstated To The IAAF Before 2018

Distance News

• Recommended Read: Nick Symmonds Blogs: “What’s Wrong with Pro Track and Field + How to Fix It” Symmonds says, “Professional track and field is broken … and I have some ideas.” Symmonds looks to horse racing and says track needs three things: food, alcohol and gambling. Then he gives his idea for an event in Las Vegas.
• MB: Pierre Ambroise Bosse calls out Mo Farah on French TV show Bosse: “[Farah] has never convinced me. I have doubts.”
• Interesting: Runner’s Tribe: Tactics, Salazar & Gold – The Training Of Matthew Centrowitz A compilation of quotes and stats from Centro that gives a picture of his overall training.
• 25 Athletes Get $25K Grant From USATF Distance runners who got payed were Paul Chelimo, Drew Windle, Hillary Bor and Charlene Lipsey.

LetsJump.com

• Injury Keeps US’s National And NCAA Triple Jump Champ Keturah Orji Out Of Worlds She says she withdrew due to “some lingering pains from USAs.”
• Recommended Read: NY Times: Margareet Bergmann Lambert, Jewish Athlete Excluded From Berlin Olympics, Dies At 103 Lambert was a gold medal contender for Germany at the 1936 Games, but was excluded because she was Jewish. She eventually immigrated to the US and won the US high jump and shot put titles in 1937.
• Good Listen: Pre-Worlds Podcast With US Long Jump Champion Jarrion Lawson
• IAAF Inside Athletics: Ato Boldon Video Interview With Olympic And Two-Time World Long Jump Champion Tianna Bartoletta

Mile News

• Heather Kampf (4:30) And Jake Edwards (4:00) Repeat As Ryan Shay Mile Winners Edwards beat out Canadian Olympian Nate Brannen by .59 of a second.
• Friday: Ben Blankenship, Kyle Merber, Colby Alexander Lead Competitive Field For GNC Live Well Liberty Mile In Pittsburgh The women’s race is led by Heather Kampf, who faces Stephanie Garcia, Lauren Johnson, Emily Lipari and Hannah Fields.
• Next Friday: Sir Walter Miler “Meet The Competitor” Series: 5 Things About Me With Craig Engels Engels says, “I have never had a cup of coffee in my life.”
  *More: Heather Kampf *Stephanie Brown *Izaic Yorks *Sara Sutherland *More … (We recommend these quick, interesting/funny reads.)
• The Telegraph: Steve Cram’s Top 10 Tips For Running A Fast Mile Cram says to focus on the third lap since that’s when most people get it wrong.

Chaos In Kenya

• 4 Kenyans Fail To Report To Kenya’s WC Training Camp – Coach Has No Idea Where Irene Cheptai, Agnes Jebet, Eunice Sum And Margaret Chelimo Are
• Kenya’s Coach Says Kenya’s Doping Agency Failed To Schedule The Three Mandatory Out-Of-Competition Doping Tests Before Worlds – Athletes May Be Forced To Miss Out

Jesse Owens History

• Before The Freeze, Jesse Owens Was Racing People At Negro Baseball Games
• After Jesse Owens Won His Golds In Berlin, FDR Snubbed Him And Didn’t Offer Him A White House Invite
• After NYC’s Ticker Tape Parade For US Olympic Heroes, Jesse Owens Had To Take The Service Elevator For “Coloreds” To Get To The Waldorf-Astoria’s Banquet Here is a video of the parade.

Irish And Polish Champs Were This Weekend

• Ireland’s Track National Championships Were Last Weekend – And Their 4 WC Team Members All Won As Would Be Expected Mark English and Ciara Mageean won the 800s as Brian Gregan cruised a 45.74 400.
• Ireland Only Qualified 4 Athletes For Worlds On The Track They have 8 more if you count the race walks/marathon and Cathal Dennehy says they need to appoint a full-time director of coaching as they are abysmal in the field events.
• Ireland’s Thomas Barr – Their First Olympic Sprint Finalist In 84 Years (4th In 400H) – Is Recognizable All Throughout Ireland “The months following the Olympics, however, were anything but normal, Barr stepping off the plane to find he was recognisable everywhere he went. Nights out turned into endless selfie sessions with strangers, and Barr got to experience both sides of overnight fame.”
• Polish Champs: Anita Wlodarczyk throws 80.79 WL “I have been waiting for an 80-metre throw since May, This was my eighth national title, so I wanted to get a distance starting with eight here.” There were some interesting results in the women’s 800 and men’s 1,500, where Adam Kszczot beat Marcin Lewandowski in a race where Lewandowski may have let him win.

Saturday: *Heusden Results

MB: 2017 Heusden Results – Infeld becomes 15th US women to break 15:00, Quigley runs huge 1500 pb, Efraimson just misses, True 13:10 and much more Tons of US WC team members ran, including Kate Grace (2:03), Ryan Hill and Eric Jenkins (3:37), Colleen Quigley (4:03), Hassan Mead (13:11), and Emily Infeld (14:56). Non-WC times from Americans included Alexa Efraimson at 4:04, Shalane Flanagan at 14:58 and Ben True at 13:10.

• Wisco’s Morgan McDonald Ran 13:15 To Become Fastest Badger Undergrad In History Solinsky ran 13:12 right after graduation. McDonald didn’t run NCAA indoors (injured) or outdoors this year (no qualifying time as his only individual race was a tactical Big 10 final).
• Other Meets: Tom Walsh Nails 22m To Send Ryan Crouser A Warning Shot For Worlds Walsh: “I’m going to win it, no doubt about that.”

Previous Pan Am Junior News *Pan Am Schedule *Live Results *Live Stream *Full Day 1 Results

• Caitlin Collier’s Undefeated Season At 800 Comes To An End At Pam Am Juniors As Canada Goes 1-2
• Puerto Rico’s Ryan Sanchez Estrada Wins 800 In 1:46 The US’s Cameron Cooper got the DQ.
  *MB: Anyone watch Pan Am Jrs? What did Cameron Cooper do to get DQd from 800 final? 
• Texas’ George Patrick Dominates Decathlon At Pan Am Juniors With 7,514
• Cayman Islands’ Jamal Watson (44.99) Beats Josephus Lyles (45.30) In 400 For Gold On 1st Day Of Pan Am U20 Champs In Peru Arkansas’ Taylor Werner won gold in the women’s 3,000 in 9:16.
• USATF Day 1 Recap
• Full Day 1 Pan Am Jr. Recap: Alyssa Wilson Improves Her National Shot Put Record With 58 feet, 1 inch (17.70m) throw
• DyeStat Preview Of Pan Am Juniors

Previous World Para Champ News *Live Results, Start Lists, Schedule

• Saturday: Mikey Brannigan Adds 800 World Title To His Resume – Wins 2017 Paralympic T20 800 Title In 1:54.24
• Earlier In The Week: Mikey Brannigan Wins World Para 1,500 Title In 3:53 He’ll try to make it double gold in the 800 final today.
• Interesting Read: New Zealand’s Rio 200/400 Paralympic Champ Liam Malone Vows To Run Faster Than Usain Bolt’s WR Within The Next Three Years He says he’s aiming for 9.4 seconds, but admits that it’s advanced technology that will get him there.
• 1-Minute Audio Clip: USA’s Rio Paralympic Gold Medalist David Brown And His Guide Jerome Avery Explain What Its Like To Run The 100m Blind
• Tatyana McFadden Wins Four London 2017 Golds

India’s Asian Shot Put Champ Manpreet Kaur Fails Drug Test For Banned Stimulant She’ll miss Worlds, most likely lose her title and face up to a 4-year ban.

Evan Jager Talked To Us About Fancy Bears & Monaco

LRC  Q&A: Evan Jager Talks About Being Listed As “Likely Doping” In Fancy Bears Hack, The Steeplechase In Monaco … And Admits To Reading LetsRun.com To Try To Figure Out What Was Going On Jager was on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast for nearly an hour in his first public comments since being listed in the Fancy Bears hack. Read the highlights or listen to the whole thing. Jager revealed what he’s learned from the IAAF about why his name was on the document, he talked about his training, how he got his mind right to win Olympic silver, married life and being a homeowner. Plus, he says he had to stop reading forum posts about the hack because 50% of you were like “I know he’s been doping the whole time!”

• Best Quotes: “Honestly my first thought (if I wasn’t on the list) would have been, oh yeah, like everyone on there is doping.”
• “Naturally, I woke up and the like first thing that I did was I went to LetsRun just to figure out what exactly was going on.”
• “Everyone was looking at me like they thought I was dirty at that point in time and it was a really shitty feeling.”
• On Monaco: “I’m looking to get up to the front and go for the win.”