Commonwealth Games: Usain Bolt Arrives, Drama W/ Kim Collins And On Team Australia *Full Schedule And Results *TV And Streaming Info *5k Photos

MB: Men 5,000: Calen Ndiku And Isiah Koech Go 1-2 As Zane Robertson Susprises With Bronze This one was exciting but no one could match Ndiku over the final 200 as he finished off a 54.11 last lap and 4:02 last 1,600 to win. The big surprise was the bronze by Zane Robertson. His twin was right in it as well until a late fall. Wisconsin runner Mo Ahmed was a surprising 5th in 13:18. *Photos *Results
*Athletics Weekly Recap Ndiku: “When I was approaching that finish line I couldn’t stop smiling, I realised it was my dream coming true. I had so much passion. I was meant for the podium.”

Australia’s Michael Shelley Wins Marathon Gold The Aussie, who won silver last time, won in a PR of 2:11:15 over Kenya’s Stephen Chemlany, the former Iona runner who has a 2:06:24 PR.
*MB: Michael MF Shelley — Commonwealth Marathon Champion *The Independent on Shelley

Kenya Goes 1-2 In Women’s Marathon Flomena Daniel and Caroline Kilel get gold and silver as Daniel ran 2:26:45.

• More: IAAF Full Day 1 Recap
• Be Inspired: 17-Year-Old Rosefelo Siosi From The Solomon Islands Treated To The “Hampden Stadium Roar” As He Finishes 5000 Dead Last In 16:55
• Be Inspired x 2: England’s Former 230-Pound Chain Smoker Steve Way Breaks British Masters Record With 2:15:16 10th Place Finish Afterwards, Way was in tears and said,  “I just couldn’t have wished for a better day. I normally say something is second best to my wedding day, but this matches it.” *2nd article
• England’s Adam Gemili Fastest In 100 Heats With 10.15 Blessing Okagbare had the fastest women’s time in the heats with 11.20. The bigger news though is that Trinidad and Tobago’s Michelle-Lee Ahye who had the fastest time coming in with 10.82 pulled out of the games after getting second in her heat to advance.
• Worth A Read: This Is Why Journalists Get A Bad Reputation This journalist crticizes the media for asking Bolt some weird questions in his press conference on Saturday. Some funny photos of Bolt’s facial reactions.
• Full Rundown Of Day 4 Of CGs As It Happened

Saturday US Action: Bix 7 – Molly Huddle Stays Hot *Top 25 Results

LRC Molly Huddle Crushes Bix 7 Women’s Field – Wins USA 7-Mile Champs She ran 36:13 (5:10.4 pace), the 4th fastest Bix Time ever, and won by 1:07 over Sarah Hall. Sean Quigley won the men’s race over Maverick Darling in 33:27 (4:46.7 pace).
Pre-Race: Huddle Hopes Speed Translates From Track To Roads

Run Track Town HP Meet: RRW Jordan McNamara Wins 1,500 In 3:39.03 Over Kyle Merber And Pat Casey Robby Andrews kicked down Elijah Greer to get NJ-NY Track Club the 4 x 800 win over OTC (7:16.22 to 7:16.41). Laura Roesler led the women’s team that won in 8:07.65. Christian Taylor won the TJ while Aleec Harris ran 13.14 to beat Aries Merritt in the 110H. *Full Results

Ryan Shay Mile: Heather Kampf (4:21) 3-Peats, Sets Event Record at Ryan Shay Mile, Rob Finnerty (3:56) Wins Men’s Race (updated with article)
*MB Thread

Day 4: LRC Men’s 5,000: Yomif Kejelcha And Yasin Haji Go 1-2 As Ethiopia Completes Gold/Silver Sweep Of 5ks Kejelcha put on a show at the end of this one, running his last 1,600 in 4:07 and breaking the race wide open before winning in 13:25. So good, he reminded us of Kenny B in 2008. Americans Colby Gilbert and Brian Barraza were 9th and 13th, respectively.

• Day 4 Recap: US Dominates The Sprints, Led By Trentavis Friday’s Barely Wind-Aided 20.04 200 Victory US’s Kaylin Whitney won the women’s 200 and Kendall Baisden the 400.
  *Oregonian: Whitney Was Almost DQed For A False Start Before Winning 200 She got a “yellow card” for what looked like a false start, but ended up being an issue with her blocks.
• Not Good: USATF Clerical Error Keeps US Shot Putter Aaliyah Pete Out Of World Junior Meet Shame on the IAAF for not bending the rules for what was clearly a human error. If Jamaica did this at Worlds next year with Usain Bolt would they really not let him race?
  *MB: USATF drops the ball again!
• RRW: Ethiopians Kejelcha, Haji Go One-Two In 5000m at WJC

Day 4 AM: LRC W 1,500/M 800 & Steeple: Alexa Efraimson & Elise Cranny Both Move On To Final; American Tre’tez Kinnaird Advances In 800, Bailey Roth Breaks US HS Record In Boys Steeple Efraimson and Cranny were both auto qualifiers to the final but medals are going to be far from easy. The 35-year-old record US HS boys steeple record fell.
*South Eugene HS Coach Jeff Hess Was On Site To Watch Bailey Roth Take Down His Steeple Record
*RRW: Worth The Wait: Bailey Roth Breaks 35-Year-Old USA H.S. Steeplechase Record
*RRW: Alexa Efraimson, Dawit Seyaum Advance On Day Four
*MB: Bailey Roth breaks 35 year old steeple HSR!
*MB: Alexa and Elise both Qualified for 1500 Final

Commonwealth Games Track Action Starts Sunday

• Wales’ 400 Hurdler And Team Co-Captain Rhys Williams Out Of CGs For Failing A Drug Test This is the second Welsh athlete to test positive in the lead-up to the CGs as did 800 runner Gareth Warburton.
  *Former CG Medalist Christian Malcolm Defends Rhys Williams, Saying “He is always someone who’s been anti-drugs.” Are there any pros who are publicly pro-drugs?
• Recommended Read: England’s Steve Way Used To Weigh 230 Pounds And Smoke 20 Cigarettes A Day; Now He’s A 2:16 Marathoner Way started running just go lose weight and get healthy, but got faster and faster and qualified for the CGs by being the 3rd Brit in London. Also, he’s 40 years old and works a 9-to-5 job while putting in 130-mile weeks.
• Profile On England 2:31 Marathoner Alyson Dixon, Who’s In The Shape Of Her Life After Coming Back From Running 2011 Worlds With 3 Broken Bones In Her Foot
• England’s Richard Kilty Hoping To “Shock” People In 100 As He Did When He Won The World Indoor 60
• Athletics Weekly Previews
  *Men: *Distance *Sprints *Jumps *Throws *Multis/Relays
  *Women: *Distance *Sprints *Jumps *Throws *Multis/Relays

Ritz / Webb Updates

• Dathan Ritzenhein Hopes To Race Within The Next Month As He Is Training At 85% As He Comes Back From His Sports Hernia He made the move back to his home state of Michigan last month. He says he won’t do a fall marathon, but probably a 10K or half.
• Good Read: Alan Webb Talks About His “Dream Goal” Of Making The Olympics In The Triathlon And Explains The Process To Get There Some good stuff here from Webb and his wife about his tri training and his mile AR.

Previous World Junior News

MB: Official 2014 World Junior Discussion Thread

Day 2: LRC Women’s 5,000: Ethiopians Alemitu Heroye & Alemitu Hawi Go 1-2 And Crush The Field Heroye and Hawi used a 4:45 second 1,600 to break the field and ran away with this one, finishing 33 seconds ahead of the bronze medallist, Agnes Jebet Tirop of Kenya. Maggie Schmaedick of the USA & Oregon was 12th and missed her PR by less than a second.

100m:Upsets Take Place In Men’s And Women’s 100: HSer Kendal Williams, An FSU Commit, Beats NCAA Champ Trayvon Bromell Of Baylor As USA Goes 1-2 In Men’s 100 ; Great Britian’s Dina Asher-Smith Crushes Field And USA’s Kaylin Whitney, Who Got Bronze Williams was the only person in the field to set a PR into the headwind as he ran 10.21 to Bromell’s 10.28. Japan’s Yoshihide Kiryu was third in 10.34. On the girls side, the .16 margin of victory was the 2nd biggest in history as Whitney, who ran 11.10 at the US Trials, only ran 11.46. Asher-Smith, with a 11.14 PR, is no slouch.
*LA Daily News *IAAF Men’s Recap *IAAF Women’s Recap

Multis: Decathlon: Jiri Sykora Becomes 1st Czech Male Athlete To Win Gold, Does So With Championship Record Of 8135 Points
*After Totally Blowing It On Day 2 At World Youths Last Year, Great Britain’s Morgan Lake Turns A 2013 Failure Into A 2014 Heptathlon Title

Day 1: LRC M 10k: Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei Comes Back In The Final Lap To Win 1st Gold Of Games Over Kenya’s Elvis Cheboi Cheptegei, whose 27:56 PR was 34 seconds better than anyone else in the field, did all of the work after taking the lead from Japan’s Keisuke Nakatani just after four miles and he was rewarded with the victory. Ethiopia’s Tsegaye Mekonnen, who won the Dubai Marathon in 2:04 in January, was listed on the entries when they came out on Sunday but did not start. *RRW *IAAF
*MB: Kenyan press quotes David Monti saying of men’s 10k winner, “Is he (Cheptegei) really under 19?”
*Cool stuff: After Officials Recognized A Girl Was Falsely DQed In Girls 100, She Was Allowed To Run All By Herself After Boys 10k And Put Up 2nd-Fastest Time Of Meet

News From Tuesday

• David Rudisha Documentary “100 Seconds to Beat the World: The David Rudisha Story” Debuts In UK And Gets Rave Reviews – “Powerful and insightful.”
• LRC Here’s How To Watch The David Rudisha Documentary For Free

• Yuriy Borzakovskiy – 2004 Olympic 800 champ – Retires
• Usain Bolt Is Alive – Bolt Announces His 2014 Schedule After the 4 x 100 at CGs, he’s set to go at a number of races, including his DL debut in Zurich on Aug. 28.

• We 100% Disagree: Usain Bolt: Cutting Tyson Gay Doping Ban “Sends Bad Message”‘ Bolt: “It is sending a bad message into the sport that you can do it, but if you co-operate with us we’ll reduce the sentence.” We wonder if they asked him about Asafa Powell. Doping is all about incentives. If there is no incentive to be honest about it, dopers will deny, deny, deny.
• Yohan Blake’s Injury Was More Serious Than Thought – Glen Mills Says He’s Already Had Surgery And Will Be “Out For Quite A Long Time”