– Ato Boldon talking about Usain Bolt, his legacy and his looming retirement from track and field.
LRC Matthew Centrowitz Becomes Fourth-Fastest Indoor Miler Ever (3:50.63), Repeats As Wanamaker Mile Champion Nick Willis tried his best to turn back Centro but it was in vain as they entertained.
LRC Ryan Hill Kicks Best To Win Loaded 3,000 In World-Leading 7:38.82; Edward Cheserek 7:40.51 (#2 All-Time NCAA) Is Ryan Hill the top 3,000m runner in the world right now?
LRC The Rest Of The Meet: Betsy Saina Wins A Historically-Fast 5k, Shannon Rowbury Comes Up Short In Her AR Attempt, Ajee Wilson Wins As Does Duane Solomon Some great distance action at Millrose.
LRC Drew Hunter Does It Again – Runs 3:57.81 For A New High School Indoor Mile Record He’s still under the weather and still making history.
*MB: DREW HUNTER 3:57.81
Interesting Article: GB’s Former Commonwealth Games 110H Champ Andy Turner Is Now A Professional Bodybuilder The former track star explains the ins and outs of a body builder’s training routine, which include some ridiculous and unhealthy diet routines that sound absolutely miserable.
Brett Larner Takes An “Honest Look” At American Marathoning History And Asks If We’ve Reached A Turning Point The women are better than ever and the men have potential thanks to Galen Rupp, but have some work to do.
Rome 2024 Bid Will Use Colosseum And Circus Maximus Beach volleyball at the Circus Maximus and the marathon finishing under the Arch of Constantine near the Colosseum are proposed ideas.
Interesting Read: Portland Tribune: “Introducing The Best Track In The World” Apparently Nike and the city of Portland are considering buying the track even though it was promised to the University of Iowa for $2.6 million.
Good Read: Shalane Flanagan Q&A On Dehydration, Delirium, And Drama At The Olympic Trials Flanagan goes step-by-step through the race from reacting to Kellyn Taylor‘s move to teamwork with Amy Cragg and getting so dehydrated she needed an IV afterwards.
Papa Diack Will Be Questioned By Senegal Investigators A warrant for his arrest has been issue by Interpol, but Senegal has refused to extradite him.
LRC Yohan Blake Opens His Season With A 48.14-Second 400 In Jamaica (video included) Blake was the last finisher in the race won by Javon Francis in 46.21.
Wejo Is Proud: Weldon Kirui Loses Luggage, Gets New Pair Of Skechers From Race Organizers And Wins LA Marathon In 2:13 Ukraine’s Nataliya Lehonkova won the women’s race in 2:30.
LRC Full Recap America’s Next Great Marathoner Arrives As Galen Rupp Dominates Olympic Trials In Debut; Meb Keflezighi, Jared Ward Grab Final Two Spots On Team USA (updated) Rupp (2:11:12), Keflezighi (2:12:20) and Ward (2:13:00) is your team to Rio as Luke Puskedra (2:14:12) and Tyler Pennel (2:14:57) just miss out.
Fastrack National Invite Results: Villanova’s Patrick Tiernan Runs An NCAA-Leading 7:48.55 Robby Andrews won the 800 in 1:47.50.
Husky Classic: MB: Grant Fisher Runs 7:50.06 To Win Husky Classic 3K In A Close Finish He beat out Washington’s Izaic Yorks by .14 seconds. Allie Ostrander ran 8:54 to win the women’s race. Boise State’s David Elliott took the mile in 3:57.38 as the top 7 went sub-4 and Natalia Piliusina won the women’s (4:35.31).
ISU Classic: Elise Cranny Gets 4:38 Mile Win In Her Return To Racing Was her first race since outdoors last year. Also on Saturday, Akron’s Worlds qualifier Clayton Murphy ran 1:46.13 to beat NCAA champ Edward Kemboi.
LRC Mo Farah’s 2016 Track Campaign Gets Off To A Successful Start As He Wins Glasgow 3,000 In 7:39.55 After realizing the British record was out of reach, Mo focused on the win and got it, but Mo only closed in 58.9.
LRC Mary Cain’s Lackluster 2016 Continues – Cain Runs 4:13.55 In Glasgow Cain finished 8th of 9.
Before His Sudden Death, Former RUSADA Executive Director Had Written To The Sunday Times To Reveal Info On Cover-Ups Allegedly, Nikita Kamayev was set to reveal details about a “secret lab” being used in Russia.
Asian Indoor Champs Final Day: Qatar’s Mohamed Al-Garni Runs 7:39 To Complete His 3,000/1,500 Double Victory Qatar got another win from Abdulrahman Musaeb Balla with 1:46.92 in the 800.Genzebe Dibaba Runs 8:22.50 – The 2nd-Fastest Indoor 3,000 In History – In Stockholm Gelete Burka was second in 8:33.76. Aman Wote won the men’s 1,500 in 3:39.
Mike Rossis Of The World Beware: Hey Race Cheaters, Race Directors Are On To You – You’ve Been Warned RDs are finally catching up to what LRCers have been proficient at for years – catching cheaters. An in-depth look at the methods RDs are using to catch course cutters.We made a mistake in our article on Schwartz and fortunately for all of us that caused Schwartz to share more info on Critical Velocity pace.
Desi Linden said it best, "Meb's the epitome of a hero"
Tyler Pennel gives some inspiration for underdogs everywhere, revealing he wanted to win the Trials.
Seb Coe Says Kenya Could Be Banned From 2016 Olympics If Declared Non-Compliant By WADA Coe: “We know a disproportionate amount of reputational damage is caused by a relatively few countries … if it means pulling them out of world championships or Olympic Games then we will have to do that.” *Telegraph Article
Did You Know? Famous Author Nicholas Sparks Was A Former HS Track Star Sparks, the author of The Notebook and Message in a Bottle, ran 1:52 in high school and split 1:50 in college before an Achilles injury forced him to quit.
BBC Video On Germany’s “Blade Jumper,” Who Is Trying To Get The IAAF To Allow Him To Compete In The Rio Olympics Markus Rehm has an 8.40m PR, which would have won the London Games. He is not allowed to compete against able-bodied athletes as the IAAF says his carbon fiber prosthetic gives him an advantage.
The Guardian’s Sean Ingle: “Isn’t It Time For An Independent Commission Into Kenyan Athletics’ Drug Problem?” The time was probably quite a while ago.
Geoffrey Kamworor Wins In Battle With Bedan Karoki At Kenyan XC Championships Alice Aprot (sister of 2010 World XC champ Joseph Ebuya) won the women’s race as favorite Faith Kipyegon finished way back, running through illness.
More Paralympic Debate As Amputee LJer Markus Rehm Argues For A Spot At The Olympics GB’s Chris Tomlinson and Dan Bramble were for it, but Aussie Fabrice Lapierre (who finished 2nd in Glasgow behind Rehm) said no.
We take a brief look back to the Trials and a bigger look back to Regina Jacobs and Suzy Favor Hamilton.
LRC Hamza Driouch Retracts Claim That Coach Jama Aden (Whose Athletes Broke 3 World Records Yesterday) Doped Him The IAAF needs to figure out who was doping the 17-year-old Driouch when he tested positive.
Updated: Odile Baudrier of SPE15.fr has sent us English translations of his original article and the email he received from Driouch, which was in English.
Tomorrow: Mo Farah Vs. Caleb Ndiku And Augustine Choge In Glasgow 3K Other top matchups include Adam Kszczot vs. Mohammed Aman over 800 and Sifan Hassan vs. Dawit Seyaum over 1,500. Ayanleh Souleiman and Melisssa Bishop lead the men’s 1,500 and women’s 800.
All three have the same coach, Jama Aden. In other action, Adam Kszczot kept winning in the 800.
*Dibaba Didn’t Like The “Conditions,” Saying The Arena “Felt Very Cold” To Her
*Non-Distance Recap: After Stumble, Kim Collins Wins 60m Over Mike Rodgers; Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou Sets Greek PV Record (4.81m) US’s Jeneba Tarmoh won the 200 in 23.38 over Trinidad and Tobago’s Michelle-Lee Ahye.
Ireland AIT Results: Mary Cain 4:13 for 6th in 1,500.
*World Silver Medalist Melissa Bishop Sets Canadian Indoor 800 Record With 2:00.60
Q&A With Former All-American Chris Barnicle, The “World’s Fastest Stoner,” Who Was DFL At The OT Barnicle’s 3:45:34 last-place finish probably isn’t the best advertisement for mixing running and marijuana. And no, the rumor that he submitted PBR for his fluid stations wasn’t true. *Q&A Part 2Don’t Forget – Millrose Is Saturday
Emily Infeld Is In Good Shape, Hoping For Big PR And 1st Sub-15:00 Clocking At Millrose On Saturday Her PR is 15:07.
LA 2024 Logo Unveiled – “Follow The Sun” If they actually get the Games, they will apparently make a 2nd logo.
Italy’s Half-Bearded High Jumper Gianmarco Tamberi Sets New National Record With 2.38m Elsewhere, Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim won a low-key HJ in 2.36m.
LRC Amy Cragg Gets Vengeance From 4th Place Finish 4 Years Ago, Desi Linden Runs Smart For 2nd And Shalane Flanagan Hangs On – Full Recap and Analysis link fixed Flanagan and Cragg pulled away early, but it took a toll on Flanagan, who barely kept it together and collapsed at the finish. Kara Goucher was a close 4th in 2:30:24 and Janet Bawcom 5th. Videos and more.
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