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LRC Saturday Recap: Mo Farah Wins 5k, Ronald Kwemoi Impresses in Mile, Jakob Ingebrigtsen Becomes History’s Youngest Sub-4 Miler, Bowie Wins Dream 200 Ronald Kwemoi won the 1500 and Mo Farah the 5000. Could they clash at 5000m at Worlds? Others winners were: Semenya in the 800, Kipyegon the mile, Tori Bowie the big win at 200, Ronnie Baker the 100, and Christian Taylor went long in the triple as did Crouser in the shot. American distance runners were underwhelming today.

• Saturday Pre on the Boards: Official Live Thread
• Should Kwemoi Run the 1500 or 5000 at Worlds this year? Could he be the guy to beat Mo Farah?
• The Ingebrigtsen brothers all run Sub 4 at Pre — Have 3 Brothers ever run Sub 4 on the same day?
• Is Kiprop finished? Probably not. Afterwards he said he has been sick.
• Principe goes home DEVASTATED High schooler ran 4:00.73.
• Su Bingtan 9.92! 

LRC Friday: A 14-Year-Old Sprint Star & New Steeple Star Arrive, Genzebe Dibaba Just Wins, Charlene Lipsey Keeps Excelling – Recap Of Joan Benoit Samuelson Night At Pre Fans didn’t see a world record but they got a nice start to a great weekend of track and field.
*MB: Official 2017 Prefontaine Classic discussion thread – Is this the best Pre meet ever?
*MB: Wow, Wow, Wow: 18 year old Cellphine Chespol stops to put on her shoe still runs 8:58.78 steeple

Outside Coverage:

• Devon Allen Is Excited To Compete In his First Pre Classic, But Still Plans On Playing In The NFL Eventually Allen says the “perfect scenario” for him is breaking the WR and winning gold at Tokyo 2020 and then do football and track at the same time.
• Mo Farah Says He’s “Sick” Of The NOP Doping Allegations “I just get sick of it, really, to be honest with you … It’s something the press likes to be able to twist it and add a little bit of spices and add stuff on it. … It’s nothing new. You tell me something new. Since 2011 it’s the same stuff.”
• Ten Athletes, Including Russia’s World 110H Champion Sergey Shubenkov, Miss Pre Due To Visa Issues Meet director Tom Jordan said this was the first time in nearly a decade that athletes had problems securing visas for the meet.
• Register-Guard: Brittney Reese And Tatsiana Khaladovich Get Things Heated Up In The FIeld Both had big marks as Reese won the LJ over Tianna Bartoletta with 7.01m and Belarusian Khaladovich beat a deep javelin field with 66.30m.
• Alexa Efraimson: “It’s another learning experience … I led a lot in high school but today is one of my first races leading as a pro.” Efraimson says she’s halved her class load so she can get top 3 at USAs.
• Register-Guard: “Genzebe Dibaba Wins Big, But Not Big Enough For 5,000 WR” Dibaba said she was disappointed in the time as she had focused on going for the WR “at this particular race.”
• Sifan Hasssan Took 15 Seconds From Lornah Kiplagat’s Long Standing Dutch 5,000m Record Afterwards Hassan said, “This is just the hardest thing I have done, 5k. In my life.”

African Road News: Kenyan World Marathon Squad Is Official

• Kenya’s World Marathon Squad To Be Led By Two-Time World Champ Edna Kiplagat And London Champ Daniel Wanjiru The men’s squad also has Boston winner Geoffrey Kirui and Tokyo runner-up Gideon Kipketer while the women have World silver medalist Helah Kiprop and Commonwealth Games champion Flomenah Cheyech.
• Sunday: Joel Kositan (2:09) And Eddah Jepkosgei (2:39) Lead Fields For The Edinburgh Marathon
• May 28: Ethiopia’s Canadian All-Comers Record Holder (2:22:43) Koren Jelela Returns To Defend Her Ottawa Marathon Title In the associated 10K, 27:38 man Nicholas Bor is back to try and win again while the women’s race has former World Half bronze medalist Pascalia Kipkoech.

Doping / Gender News

• Western States 100 Miler Will Has Added Drug Testing To This Year’s Race They say they are “the first major US ultra” to do drug testing and it costs $700 per athlete tested.
• Not A Philosophy We Agree With: Lengthy Piece From “The Sports Integrity Initiative” On Issues Surrounding Women And Testosterone In Sport The article presents the argument that athletes like Caster Semenya who produce high levels of testosterone do “have a competitive advantage” but that “the advantage is no different from natural talents enjoyed by athletes such as Serena Williams [or] Lindsey Vonn …”
• Unnamed Indian Track Athlete Gets Provisional Suspension After Being Found With Meldonium In Their Hotel Room

Doping Updates

LRC  6 Takeaways On Full USADA Report On Alberto Salazar, NOP: USADA: “It Appears Highly Likely” That 6 NOP Athletes, Including Galen Rupp And Dathan Ritzenhein, Violated Anti-Doping Rules We give you the nitty gritty on the 269-page USADA interim report on Alberto Salazar, Dr. Brown and the Nike Oregon Project, hacked by Fancy Bears and released in its entirety on Flotrack.

*Salazar Responds: The Oregonian: Alberto Salazar Issues Statement In Response To Leaked USADA Doping Report Salazar refers to the report as “baseless speculation” and states that he never used testosterone when competing nor had “dual” prescriptions or rubbed it on an athlete.

Tons Of Discussion On The Boards:

• MB: The full USADA report on Alberto Salazar has been leaked – Here it is
• MB:  Letsvote.com: Anyone associated with Salazar is tainted. YES or NO?
• MB: Salazar Responds to USADA
• MB: I feel bad for Ritz…
• MB: Let’s be clear Ritz, Galen etc are not victims, they are cheats.
• MB: Is NOP DONE or FINISHED?
• MB: USADA is screwed. I feel sorry for them.
• MB: I’m calling it right now, NOP disbans soon and the top athletes all go into hiding while still coached by Salazar.

Assorted Distance News

• Good Watch: 4-Minute Video With Matt Centrowitz Talking About Training/Racing As A Miler, Rio And What Comes Next Centro says now that his has two major championship golds, he wants to set some American records. “I have the hardware, I want the times to back it up.”
• Sunday: Wilson Kipsang Faces Dathan Ritzenhein And Bernard Lagat At The Great Manchester Run 10K Genzebe Dibaba leads the women’s race against GB’s Gemma Steel. GB’s Callum Hawkins had to pull out of the race due to illness.
• World 5,000m Silver Medalist Senbere Teferi Impresses With A 15:12 Meet Record At The Ethiopian National Championships Another highlight was unheralded Anduamlak Belhu getting a shock win in the 10,000m over World XC bronze medalist Muktar Edris as Belhu out sprinted him by .37.
• Another One From The Weekend: World 800 Silver Medalist Melissa Bishop Stepped Up In Distance To Run 4:10 For 1,500 In Canada (includes video) She won over a field that included fellow Canadian Nicole Sifuentes.
• Olympic 1,500m Champ Faith Kipyegon Shares Her Advice For Sport And Life Kipyegon’s driving tip: “In Kenya we say ‘pole pole,’ which means ‘not too quick.’ It is the best way to stay safe on the road. I like to think that I am a pretty good driver!”
• July 1: Paris Diamond League Meet Will Include An Epic Battle In The 1,500 With Almaz Ayana And Faith Kipyegon

Sprints And Jumps

• Yohan Blake Says He Could Have Gone Faster Than The 9.93 He Ran At The Jamaica Invitational Last Weekend Blake says he “shut it down” when he realized he had control of the race, but was happy with the quick time after a terrible start to his season.
• Radek Juska Smashes 29-Year-Old Czech Long Jump Record With A European-Leading 8.29m
• Good Read: Kerron Clement Reminisces About Finally Realizing His Dreams By Winning Olympic 400H Gold In Rio Clement finished second at the 2008 Olympics but says, “I just didn’t feel complete winning silver.”
• Multis: GB Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Says She Has Grown Up Since Leaving Home In The UK To Join A New Training Group In France Johnson-Thompson said it was hard to split with her coach of 8 years, but thinks the move has paid off as she’s done the most training and competing since she was a junior.
  *2nd Article From The Telegraph Johnson-Thompson has struggled a bit with the language barrier as she doesn’t speak French. “There’s some things that I had to sacrifice with finding the right place for me and language was one of them.”
• IAAF Inside Athletics Video: Ato Boldon Interviews Jamaica’s Double Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson
• Video: Sandi Morris Talks About The Pole Vaulters Never Ending Struggle Of Traveling With Poles
• Two World Under-20 Indoor Records Ratified By The IAAF France’s Melvin Raffin (17.14m TJ) and Ukraine’s Alina Shukh (4,535 points in the heptathlon).

LetsThrow.com

• New Zealand’s Olympic Shot Put Bronze Medalist Tiptoes Between Confidence And Cockiness As He Declares Himself “As Good If Not Better” Than Any Other Thrower In The World
• Hammer Thrower Martin Bingisser Does Podcast “Rant” He talks about several throwing related topics including doping: “We keep putting historic throwers on a pedestal when we know they doped. They’re cheaters not heroes.”
• Prep Liam Christensen Writes Thesis Paper Making A Case To Have The Javelin Throw In High School There are only 19 states that sanction the javelin with safety concerns being a major thing holding it back.
• RIP: GB Olympic Discus Thrower Philippa Roles Dies At 39 Roles competed at the 2004 and 2008 Games and is 4th on the UK all-time list.
  *Athletics Weekly: Athletes, Officials Pay Tribute To Philippa Roles
• Police Say A Moment Of Inattention Cost Wheaton College Student His Life In Hammer Throw Accident Last Month The student volunteer was distracted by two other volunteers who were goofing off during warmups.
  *MB: Student Fatally Struck by Hammer at Wheaton College Track Meet
• 1-Minute Video: Olympic Champ Michelle Carter’s Guide To The Perfect Shot Put Technique

More From The Weekend

• Philemon Cheboi And Former World Champs 5,000m 5th Placer Buze Diriba Win 2017 Bay To Breakers 12K In San Francisco Part race, part block party, it sounds like the 2017 edition (which included a kissing booth with dogs) was just as crazy as ever. *Results
  *SFGate.com: “Bay To Breakers Costumes Show Off Local Creativity, Humor At Its Finest”
  *Bleacher Report: Top Photos
• The Denver Post: 6-Foot-1 And 193’Pound Runner Isaac Green Wins 800, 1,600, 3,200, 4 X 800 At Colorado State Meet
  *MB: CO runner wins 800, 1600, 3200, 4×800 at state is 6-1 193lbs

Ultra News: Running Goes To Everest

• Spanish Ultra Runner Kilian Jornet Summits Mt. Everest; Claims Fastest Known Time He climbed the North face in 26 hours without oxygen or fixed ropes which most climbers use and take up to four days. *Discuss
• Free PDF Book: “Swift Endurance Legends The Fastest 100-Mile Ultrarunners During The 1970s, ’80s And ’90s”

Championship News

• Do You Plan On Winning A Medal At London 2017 Worlds? Here’s What It Will Look Like They’re pretty cool looking, shaped like a track with a symbol for every event.
  *London 2017 Organizers Promise The Medals Won’t Fall Apart Like The Rio 2016 Ones Are Doing
  *MB: Olympic Medals Aren’t What They Used To Be – 6 To 7 % Of Rio Olympic Medals Have Already Begun To Flake Apart
• The IOC Could Announce Decision On Whether To Award 2024 And 2028 Games Simultaneously In A Little Over 2 Weeks The IOC will discuss it when they meet in Lausanne on June 9.
• School Children Will Choose Tokyo 2020 Olympic Mascots The eventual winner won’t be decided until March 2018.

2017 Oxy USATF Distance Classic *Results

LRC Matthew Centrowitz Takes Down Mo Farah, Brenda Martinez Impresses – 2017 Oxy USATF Distance Classic Recap

A Friendly Debate – A Noted Sub-2 Optimist And Pessimist Share Their Thoughts On What Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 Means

LRC Was Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 A Monumental Step Forward In Marathoning? No, It Was Not – We Still Are 20+ Years Away From A Legitimate Sub-2 Marathon LetsRun.com co-founder Robert Johnson said four years ago that are nowhere close to a sub-2 in a legitimate race and he’s not backing down.

LRC Guest Column By Dr. Michael Joyner: Kipchoge’s Run & What Might (Or Might Not) Happen Next What does the man who famously predicted way back in 1991 that a human could run a marathon in 1:57:58 think of Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 run? Find out here.

MB: Dr. Michael Joyner and LetsRun’s Robert Johnson share their thoughts on what Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 means.

A Friendly Debate – A Noted Sub-2 Optimist And Pessimist Share Their Thoughts On What Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 Means

LRC Was Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 A Monumental Step Forward In Marathoning? No, It Was Not – We Still Are 20+ Years Away From A Legitimate Sub-2 Marathon LetsRun.com co-founder Robert Johnson said four years ago that are nowhere close to a sub-2 in a legitimate race and he’s not backing down.

LRC Guest Column By Dr. Michael Joyner: Kipchoge’s Run & What Might (Or Might Not) Happen Next What does the man who famously predicted way back in 1991 that a human could run a marathon in 1:57:58 think of Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 run? Find out here.

MB: Dr. Michael Joyner and LetsRun’s Robert Johnson share their thoughts on what Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 means.

NCAA Studs

LRC Top 10 Greatest Performers From NCAA Conference Weekend: Christian Coleman, Fred Kerley, Deajah Stevens, Grant Fisher, Dani Jones And More Shine Just another ho-hum NCAA weekend with a 9.97/19.98 double, 44.09 in the 400m, 11.05/22.09 double, 51.8-second lap in a 1,500m. Plus there was some great distance action. From Grant Fisher‘s domination of the PAC-12 1,500 to the arrival of Texas A&M’s true freshman Devin Dixon as an NCAA star (1:45 win at SECs), we’ve got the top performances from last week covered.

• LSU Sprinter Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Becomes Just The Second Brit Ever To Have Sub-10 And Sub-20 Second PRs Mitchell-Blake ran 9.99 and 20.09 to finish second to Christian Coleman twice at SECs.
• Ken Goe: “The Ducks’ PAC-12 Title Sweep Was A Total Team Effort”
• Oregon Women Move To #1 In Post-Conference National Rankings Arkansas moved from 5th to 2nd while top-ranked Texas A&M dropped to 4th.
• Texas A&M And Florida Men Stay 1-2 In Updated NCAA Ranks
• Event-By-Event Best 10 College Marks From The Weekend