Two More Titles For Coburn and Simpson

LRC Jenny Simpson Makes it Four in a Row in the 1500 as 31-Year-Old Mother of Three Sara Vaughn Snags Final Spot to London Simpson and Kate Grace both punched their tickets to London but the big surprise was that Shannon Rowbury did not and Sara Vaughn did.
*MB: SARA MF VAUGHN 
*MB: Jenny Simpson is the Greatest US 1500m runner EVER- male or female

LRC Emma Coburn Remains Queen Of The Steeple At USATF Championships As The Team From Rio 2016 Will Repeat At London 2017 The order of finish was the same in 2017 as 2016 but is the gap between Coburn and everyone else narrowing?

RRW Emily Richards – Star at DIII’s Ohio Northern – Impresses at USA Championships in 800m

LetsRun.com’s Pre-Meet Previews:
*W800/1,500/Steeple *M800/1,500/Steeple 

USAs Saturday Sprint / Field Action

• LRC Sam Kendricks Talks About Joining 6 Meter Club in Pole Vault, Being Most Efficient Vaulter in the World After Winning Another US Title
• Fred Kerley Completes Stellar Domestic Season Taking US 400m Title In 44.03
• LRC 19 Year Old Wil London Runs Huge PR Out of Lane 1 to Make Worlds and Coaching Legend Clyde Hart Says It’s “Easily one of the top performances I’ve had a quarter miler do under the circumstances”
• Tianna Bartoletta Wins US Long Jump Title With The Three Best Jumps Of The Competition As she did last year in Rio, Bartoletta beat out Brittney Reese for the top of the podium.
• Quanera Hayes Runs World Lead And PB Of 49.72 To Win Her First Outdoor Title Raven Saunders got an upset win in the 400 over Olympic champ Michelle Carter.
• LRC If you’re looking for someone to root for today- Let us nominate Bershawn Jackson Jackson thought his career at USATFs was over and opened up about how t&f changed his life. Then Robert Grant got DQd and now Jackson is in the final.
• NY Times: Keni Harrison Wins National 100H Title
• AP: Keni Harrison wins 100 hurdles at nationals, US sweep talk starts

Friday’s USA Coverage

LRC Paul Chelimo Crushes The Field & Sends A Message To Mo Farah With Meet Record 13:08 Victory In 5,000 At 2017 USAs Chelimo was so dominant he could pump up the crowd with a lap to go and do his signature WCAP Army salute at the finish.

LRC Three Years After Making 800m Final At USATFs In Sacramento, Shelby Houlihan Returns To Win The 5,000m Houlihan got the upset win over 10,000m winner Molly Huddle and American record holder Shannon Rowbury.

LRC 800 Semis: Donavan Brazier Makes His First Final, So Do 2 Ex-DII Guys, Mouth-Watering Women’s Final Set Murphy’s quest for the double is on track. One woman will be left out in the cold in the women’s 800.

• MB Official 2017 USATF Outdoor Nats Day 2 Live Discussion Thread
• LRC Check Your $200,017 LRC Running Warehouse USAs Track Prediction Contest Scores You can also change your picks. Now updated through the 5,000s.
• LRC Post-Race Interviews

• LRC Men’s steeple Prelims: Dan Huling’s Streak Of World Championship Teams Is Over But The Other Big Names Advance Huling had made every US WC team since 2009 but he walked off the track midway through the prelims tonight.

Friday Night Message Board Talk 

• Paul Chelimo is the BOSS!! He just solo’d a 13:08 USATF championship record!!
• Justin MF Gatlin…Dude is keeping it in the tank. Gatlin took down Coleman!!
• Tianna Bartoletta, Jenna Prandini, Hannah Cunliffe, Ronnie Baker and Jarrion Lawson Talk After Not Making 100m Final 
• Great run by Ajee Wilson Wilson and Lipsey were DOMINANT in heat #1. Rogers and Martinez were dominant in heat #2 as HSer Sammy Watson made the final. 
• Hannah Cunliffe “tweak”
• What about the sport? Christian Taylor Flies to USAs from Holland, Fouls on First Jump and Passes on Next Two
• Trey Hardee dominates the decathlon He walked across the line in the 1,500.
• 19-year-old Vashti Cunningham wins her first (of many) US titles in HJ
• This is great: They’re running heats of the 400m Hurdles to eliminate 1 person 

USATF Friday Sprint/Field Coverage

Justin Gatlin Takes Down Christian Coleman At Nationals Recent collegians Coleman and Christopher Belcher went 2-3 as Pre winner Ronnie Baker didn’t make the final.
*Tianna Bartoletta, Jenna Prandini, Hannah Cunliffe, Ronnie Baker And Jarrion Lawson Talk After Not Making 100m Final

LRC Christian Taylor Did Not Take USAs Seriously, But He Should Have Taylor flew to USAs from Holland to purposely foul in the triple jump since he had a bye into Worlds. What a joke.
Discussion: What About The Sport? Christian Taylor Flies To USAs From Holland, Fouls On First Jump And Passes On Next Two

• US’s Blake Leeper Breaks Runs 45.25 At USA Champs Leeper finished 7th in his semifinal and did not advance to Saturday’s final. We’re not sure why people are saying he broke Oscar Pistorius‘ record as Pistorius ran 45.07.
  *Good Interview: Interview with Double Amputee Blake Leeper After He Runs 45.25 400m
• The Oregonian: Oregon Ducks Deajah Stevens And Ariana Washington Race Onto Team USA They went 2-3 behind Tori Bowie who won in 10.94 seconds. *Register-Guard Article
• Trey Hardee Wins His Fourth US Decathlon Title Hardee had a solid lead going into the 1,500 and walked it in across the line knowing he had it won.
• AP: Justin Gatlin Holds Off Youngsters To Win 100m National Title 35-year-old Gatlin ran 9.95 to beat out NCAA champ Christian Coleman by .03.
• Day 2 USATF Athlete Quotes On showing up just to foul and pass, Christian Taylor said, “I’m definitely healthy, but it’s definitely unfortunate. Every time I compete I want to put on a show, but this time I had to play it smart.”

Trail/Ultra News: Western States 100 Mile Is Now

• 2017 Western States 100 Men’s Preview
  *2017 Western States 100 Women’s Preview
  *IRunFar.com Live Coverage *Live Tracking
  *MB: 2K17 Western States 100 Live Discussion
  *MB: Jim Walmsely is drunk in the Pre-2017 Western States 100 interview
• Like A Boss: 61-Year-Old South African Ultra Runner Bruce Fordyce Gets Robbed Of His Shoes While Out Running; Goes Home For Another Pair And Heads Back Out To Finish The Run Muggers robbed him at gunpoint, but the 9-time Comrades Marathon champ said they were welcome to his running shoes as they had 621 miles on them and smelled terrible.
• Alaska Mountain Race Suspended For A Year Following Bear Attacks

NCAA / HS News

• Recommended Read: Tribute To Inspirational Former Stanford Athlete Tyrone McGraw, Who Has Passed Away From Cancer At Age 29 Coming from humble beginnings to achieve greatness, McGraw overcame and accomplished more in his short 29 years than many do in a lifetime. If you’re going to read something non-USAs-related, make it this article.
• Men’s Finalists Announced For The 2017 Bowerman Award And Edward Cheserek Doesn’t Make The Cut Christian Coleman, Fred Kerley and Lindon Victor are your three finalists as obviously not racing outdoor NCAAs due to injury took Cheserek out of the running.
• Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers, ASU Thrower Maggie Ewen And Georgia Jumper Keturah Orji Are The Women’s Bowerman Finalists
• Good Read: Toni Reavis Says Raevyn Rogers Final 4 X 400 Leg At NCAAs Shows What Pro Track Is Missing, The “Team Concept” Reavis wants Seb Coe to remember that “people can’t root for shoe company logos” and argues without the team race, the NCAA 4 x 4 would have been “just another tight, but overall meaningless exhibition of track excellence.”
  *Ken Goe Agrees And Commends Vin Lannana And TrackTown USA On Trying To Build The Team Concept WIth The TrackTown Summer Series
• Japan Running News’ Brett Larner Compares The Performances At New Balance Nationals With Marks From Japan HS Regionals Spoiler alert, the Japanese kids were better.

More Pre-USAs News

• The Sacramento Bee: 5 Story Lines To Finish At USAs There’s certainly a new generation of US male sprinters in Coleman, Lyles and Kerly. Centro vs. Murphy gets a mention.
• USATF Schedule Adjusted Due To High Heat In Sacramento Early afternoon events are starting earlier and evening events are starting an hour later.
• RW Profile: Ben Bruce Hasn’t Missed USAs For The Last 15 Years His first USA meet was in 2003 as a 20-year-old college student. He says “a good way to go out” would be to eventually race against someone at USAs who wasn’t born yet when Bruce first ran there.
• USA Today: 10 Things To Watch At USAs An interesting note – his Wikipedia page says he’s retired, but 33-year-old former Olympic silver medalist Trey Hardee is on the start lists.
• USATF Champs Men’s Throws Guide
  *Women’s Throws Guide
• Shalane Flanagan Says She’s “Winging It” As She Returns From Her Back Fracture Injury To Try And Make Another Team USA Flanagan has made every team she’s tried out for since 2004, but admits she’s “not super fit.”
• Sacramento News Review Profiles Olympic Discus Gold Medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton And Calls Her A Star Of A “Niche Discipline Within A Niche Sport” Brown Trafton reveals even after winning Olympic gold, she didn’t make enough from track to support herself.
• Good Read: Q&A With Shalane Flanagan Ahead Of USAs Flanagan talks about her latest comeback from injury, doping in the sport, being a foster parent and the fact that this could be her last season on the track.
• Register-Guard: 49 Athletes WIth Ties To The University Of Oregon Will Compete At USAs
• Ben Rosario Is Thrilled With The Way Hoka NAZ Elite Team Is Looking Heading Into USAs Ben Bruce heads into his 15th USAs after a 10k PR and Rosario says Craig Lutz is “on fire.”
• Eugene Register-Guard Editorial Urges USATF To Put 2020 Trials In Eugene The decision could come by Sunday. We 100% disagree.
• Podcast Q&A With Sprinter Jenna Prandini Prandini discusses a slew of topics including her training ahead of USAs, what sports she played growing up and Usain Bolt.
• Track And Field News USATF Champs Men’s Form Chart
• Track And Field News USATF Champs Women’s Form Chart
• USATF Shares Some History Of Track And Field In Sacramento Sacramento hosted the 2020 Olympic Trials, setting an 8-day attendance record that still stands.
• NBC Sports: Five Men’s Events To Watch At USAs Centro vs. Murphy over 1,500 makes their list.

European Team Championships Start Friday *Live Streaming Info *Brits Can Watch On The BBC *Entries *Schedule

• Meet Preview: Hosts France Seek Their First European Team Championships Title
• Euro Team Champs A-Z Part 1 *Part 2
• Olympic HJ Silver Medalist Mirela Demireva Leads Bulgarian Team
• More Coverage From European Athletics

400m WR Holder Wayde Van Niekerk Runs 9.94 PR In Slovenia Niekerk remains the only man to go sub-10, sub-20 and sub-44. World bronze medalist Amel Tuka won the 800 in 1:45.34 and Olympic discus champ Sandra Perkovic set the all-comers record with 69.58m.
*MB: Van Niekerk just run 9.94 +0.9

GB News

• Greg Rutherford Admits His Injury Problems Are Jeopardizing His Long Jump World Title Defence Rutherford can’t jump at all this month, but hopes to be fit in time for the World Champs.
• Jessica Ennis-Hill (7th) And Kelly Holmes (13th) Make Top-20 List Of Most Influential Women In British Sport

Ajee Wilson Loses Her American Record

LRC Ajee Wilson’s Coach Derek Thompson Says “We Don’t Have Anything to Hide” And “We’re Coming To Win” At USAs The coach of America’s best 800 runner reveals that he and Wilson “didn’t have a clue what zeranol” was before her positive test. Thompson also says Wilson is in great shape and he hopes she breaks the American record in Monaco.
*Nicole Teter Will Remain The 800 AR Holder To hold the AR, you have to be drug tested after a meet and meet organizers only tested the winner, Wilson, and not Charlene Lipsey.
*Thompson Wants Charlene Lipsey To Be A 1,500 Runner In 2018
*MB: Ajee Wilson loses her indoor 800 American record as the US beef supply contains a banned substance 

USADA Strips Ajee Wilson Of Her Indoor American Record At 800 As She Ate Beef That Everyone In The US Eats She wasn’t suspended for any time as she tested positive for a “low parts per billion concentrations” of zeranal – “a legal growth promotant in beef cattle in the US.”  Zeranal is illegal for beef farmers in Europe.

USAs Start Thursday

• Recommended Read: NY Times: Chemotherapy, Then USAs For Gabriele Grunewald Grunewald hasn’t let her fourth bout with cancer stop her from running, but it hasn’t been easy. A good read on her running/cancer fighting journey from before her first diagnosis through now.
• Alysia Montano To Compete While Pregnant At USAs Again Except this time she’ll “only” be around 4 months pregnant instead of 8 months.
• Nick Symmonds Video Blog On His “Final Track Workout Ever” (3 x 300m) Does this mean he’s giving up hope on making Team USA for London?

Sunday International Results

• Bahrain’s Dawit Fikadu (28:43) And Ethiopia’s Birhane Mihretu (32:30) Win Corrida de Langueux 10K In France
• Czech Republic’s Katerina Cachova And Algeria’s Larbi Bourrada Win At TNT Express Multi Event Meeting
• Athletics Weekly: Alicia Barrett Smashes UK 100H Junior Record At England Under-20/23 Championships
• Kanagawa University Wins Kanto Region Qualifier for National University Men’s Ekiden

More Weekend International Action

• Polish Hammer Throwers Anita Wlodarczyk And Pawel Fajdek Are Victorious Again, This Time At The IAAF HT Challenge In Samorin, Slovakia On the track, former Olympic 800 silver medalist Nijel Amos highlighted with a dominant 1:45.74 victory (Worlds bronze medalist Amel Tuka was 3rd in 1:47.06 and Mo Aman a distant 8th).
• Kawauchi Brothers Repeat Father’s Day Okinoshima Ultra Sweep Yuki Kawauchi won the 50K as his brother Yoshiki took the 100K.
• GB Heptathlete Morgan Lake Wins England Athletics U20/23 Champs High Jump With 1.94m
  *Athletics Weekly Profile: Morgan Lake Is Looking Ahead To The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Will she be the next great GB women heptathlete?
• Czech Heptathlete Eliska Klucinova And Algerian Decathlete Larbi Bourrada Lead After Day 1 Of IAAF Multi Challenge Meet In Kladno

Going Pro Early

• Tennessee’s Christian Coleman Is Turning Pro When you go sub-10 and sub-20, you go pro. He’ll stay at Tennessee and still go to school there and be coached by them.
• Is She Next? High Schooler Sydney McLaughlin Splits 49.85 FAT At New Balance Nationals That’s the fastest split in HS history. *Video
• MB: HSer Sydney McLaughlin just split a 49.85 FAT!

Coffee/Nap News

• Athletics Weekly: 6 Foods Every Athlete Should Eat From coffee (because it’s great for your gut) to pomegranate, they’ve got you covered.
• Steve Magness: A 15-20 Minute Nap Helps You Do Better Than A Large Coffee In Terms Of Concentration At Work A nap as short as 10 minutes may be the best, even if you don’t fall asleep.
• Nick Willis Reveals He’s Never Had Coffee In His Life
• Here’s How To Take A 10-Minute Nap At Work

2017 Bislett Games *Results *TV & Streaming

LRC 2017 Bislett Games Recap: Jake Wightman Pulls Off A Huge Upset, A 16-Year-Old Runs 3:56 and A Woman’s Wig Comes Off Mid-Competition Fans who watched the 2017 Bislett Games were entertained in a variety of ways on Thursday evening. On the track, two precocious Norwegian talents delighted the home crowd. Off the track, a woman long jumper’s wig fell off during the event and a rabbit forgot to run the water jump in the women’s steeplechase and then took out the #1 seed from behind. *Full Results 

LRC Oslo Track And Field Blooper Reel: A Wig Falls Off, The Rabbit Misses The Water Jump And More The meet was full of crazy stuff that you don’t normally see at a track meet.

MB: Official 2017 Bislett Games – Oslo Diamond League Discussion Thread
MB: Jakob Ingebrigsten runs age 16 WR of 3:56.31 in Oslo!!! 
MB: WTF Wightman Some British guy I’ve never heard of just won the Oslo 1,500
MB: Dafne Schippers Blatantly False Starts in 200 in Oslo But is Allowed to Run 

• Schippers False Starts In 200, Is Allowed To Race And Wins, Then Is DQed And Now Reinstated As Your 200 Champ Reuters summed up the race properly – “bizarre.”
• Jake Wightman Is The Son Of A 2:13 Marathon Dad And 2:31 Marathon Mom
• Ireland’s Thomas Barr Runs 48.95 To Finish 3rd In 400H Out Of Lane 1
• IAAF Recap – Part 1: Barshim Breaks Sotomayor’s 28-Year-Old Meeting Record
• IAAF Recap – Part 2: Warholm Runs Himself To Glory And Exhaustion