More Sobering USATF News: Two Convicted Drug Cheats are Coaching USA Teams at World Relays Champs
*50 53 Days Ago Today: USATF DQd the Wrong Person at a National Championship and Still Has Not Admitted Its Mistake It does not take a committee to admit the DQ was wrong.

Jamaican Doping News: CAS Calls Anti-Doping Program “Deplorable”

• CAS Releases 58-Page Explanation Of Decision To Clear Veronica Campbell-Brown Of Doping Charges The CAS report called JAAA’s anti-doping program “deplorable” and that many mistakes were made in the sample collection process that could have led to  possible “environmental contamination” of the sample.
• Jamaican High Jumper Damar Robinson Gets 1-Year Doping Ban Robinson goes to college in the US and tested positive for a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) last June and got a retroactive ban so he’ll be eligible to compete in 2 months.

Shalane And Jerry On 60 Minutes

LRC Watch “60 Minutes” Segment On Shalane Flanagan And Her Buildup For The Boston Marathon *Transcript
*MB: Shalane Flanagan ON 60 MINUTES is 5 fives minutes!
*MB: Boston red, UNC Tar Heel, Shalane Flanagan is on CBS 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper
*MB: Jerry Schumacher on 60 Minutes
*MB: How jealous must Alberto (and Galen) be that Shalane and Jerry were on national tv?

Weekend Action Of Note That We Didn’t Have Space For

• LRC Deena Kastor Sets US Half Marathon Masters Record – Runs 71:38
• Warsaw Marathon: After Finishing Second In Tokyo, Tadese Tola Wins In Course Record Of 2:06:55 The second edition of the Orlen Warsaw Marathon was a success as it’s already Poland’s biggest marathon with 5,000+ (31,000 overall). *Photo
• BBTM: A Record Six Athletes Posted A Sub-4:00 Time In The Blue Shoes Elite Mile: Michael Hammond Won In 3:57.70 Also breaking 4 were Jake Edwards, Jack Bolas, Matthew Elliott, Andrew Colley and Joe Stilin.
• Rogue Athletics Club’s Ali Mendez Wins Title And $4,100 At Austin 10/20 In 56:45 – Simon Ndirangu Retains Men’s Title In 47:17 The race even had prize money for Travis County residents. *RoguesAC Website
• Toronto’s Rachel Hannah (32:32), Guelph’s Eric Gillis (28:31) Wins Downhill Yonge Street 10K In Toronto
  *2nd Article With Quotes From Gillis And Hannah

Sprints / Jumps News

• Usain Bolt Says His Recent Foot Injury Is “Nothing Serious” And He’s Already Back In Training Bolt said he was looking forward to the World Relays this year in May, but didn’t indicate if he’d be competing. A previous article said he wouldn’t be competing until June.
• Texas A&M’s Deon Lendore’s 44.90 400 World Lead Highlights Weekend NCAA Action Hours later he anchored Texas A&M’s 4 x 400 to victory with a 44.70 split. Princeton’s Julia Ratcliffe was the women’s DI athlete of the week as she set a New Zealand and Ivy League record in the hammer throw with 228-4 (69.60m).
• MVP’s Carrie Russell Runs 11.19 To Win The 100 At UTech Classic Her time is tied for the 3rd fastest for the year. She also ran on the MVP 4 x 100 which ran a world-leading 43.31.
• Japanese Weekend Track Highlights: Teen Sprint Star Yoshihide Kiryu Makes His Collegiate Debut He helped the Toyo University 4 x 100 team to a school record of 39.69 seconds (article also includes distance results).
• IAAF Work, Rest, And Play Interview With Brazil’s 2011 World Champion Pole Vaulter Fabiana Murer She says her all-time favorite movie is Back to the Future and is a big fan of the US Sherlock Holmes TV series.
• Next Month’s Pre Classic Features Deep Women’s HJ Featuring Every Major Medalist From The Past Three Years US’s Brigetta Barrett faces Russians Anna Chicherova and Svetlana Shkolina.

LRCDavid Epstein Talks About Roger Bannister (On Final Day To Back Roger Bannister Film On Kickstarter)

London Women

LRCFour Thoughts On London: The Sprint Finish, Dibaba's Dropped Bottle And Debut, And Kiplagat Coming Through

LRC - Edna Kiplagat Outkicks Florence Kiplagat – Tirunesh Dibaba Comes Up Just Short In Debut!
*RRW: 4th Times A Charm: Edna Kiplagat Wins 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon
*Sierra Leone Runner Mami Konneh Lahun Goes Missing After Finishing 20th In London Marathon

MB: Dibaba dropping the bottle cost her the win
*Why aren’t people trashing Turinesh Dibaba?
*Jeptoo. Why did she drop out?

London Is In The Books – Now Look Forward To Boston

• USA Today Quick Fact Rundown On Boston: Second Largest Field Ever, List Of Top Elites, Security, Where To Watch, Etc.
• 3,300-Mile Race For Boston Marathon Victims Ends The month long coast-to-coast relay raised more than $425,000 for the One Fund.

• 48 Days Later: USATF Names Working Group To Investigate Albuquerque Controversies From US Indoors The group is led USATF board member Bob Hersh athlete board representative Darvis “Doc” Patton.
  *More Info On The ABQ Controversies In Our “USATF Controversy” Section
• Barcelona, Doha And Eugene Set To Bid For 2019 IAAF World Championships The decision will be made in November.
• Seb Coe Will Likely Run For IAAF President Next Year When Lamine Diack Steps Down

• Alexa Efraimson Misses HS Record, Runs 9:55 To Win Arcadia 3,200 Efraimson’s time puts her 5th all-time. The matchup with Sarah Baxter never happened as she was a DNS. Overall, 20 boys went under 9 minutes as Blake Haney was the fastest in 8:46.
• Raven Saunders Breaks US High School Shot Put Record By Almost 2 Feet With 56 Feet, 8.25 Inches The record was held by American record holder and Olympic silver medalist Michelle Carter.

Oscar P Gets Grilled On Stand – Game, Set, Match?

• Friday: Pistorius Is On The Ropes: Prosecutor Rattles Pistorius So Badly And He Makes So Many “Mistakes” On Stand, Judge Asks Him If He’s Too Tired To Continue Judge: “It is important that you should be ‘all here’ when you are in that witness box. If you are tired and the reason you are making all these mistakes is because you are tired you must say so. It doesn’t help to say it’s not going to change.” *ESPN
• Prosecutor Tries To Get Oscar To Admit He Lied About Going Out On Balcony As Photos Clearly Show It Was Blocked By A Fan Oscar claims the police altered the crime scene.
• Prosecutor Goes After Oscar P: “You blame anybody but yourself.”
• Prosecutor Mocks Pistorius’ Version Of Events