Previous USA Coverage By LRC

Press Conference LRC Burgers + Fries + Cookies + Ice Cream = 9.78, Cardi B + Dancing = World Title, & Everyone Wants To Be A … Pole Vaulter? Get the scoop from today’s press event for the 2018 USATF Outdoor Championships, which included Robby Andrews, from our boots on the ground in Des Moines.

LRC Feature Icon In The Making: Why Noah Lyles Could Be The Next Face Of Track & Field A natural showman and faster than Usain Bolt at age 20, is Noah Lyles the next face of track and field?
*MB: Is Noah Lyles the next face of track and field? 

LRC 5 Reasons To Be Excited For The Women’s Action At 2018 USAs: Sydney McLaughlin, Simpson Vs. Houlihan In An Iowan Civil War, Jorgensen Vs. Huddle, & More Even though it’s an off year, there is A LOT to be excited about at 2018 USAs in terms of women’s action including Jenny Simpson vs. Shelby Houlihan in the 1,500, a gold vs. silver matchup in the women’s steeple and the debut of Gwen Jorgensen at USAs.

LRC The 5 Things We’re Most Excited About For In The Men’s Events At The 2018 USATF Outdoor Championships We know it’s an off year but USAs are this week and we’re excited for it and try to get you excited as well by sharing our top 5 men’s highlights including a LOADED men’s 800. Plus can Evan Jager win his 7th straight and can Matthew Centrowitz win his 5th 1,500 title?

Previous Outside USAs Coverage

• Des Moines Register: Iowa’s Karissa Schweizer Is A Proven NCAA Champ, But Can She MakeIt As A Pro?
• Des Moines Register: Shelby Houlihan Is Excited To Come Home For USAs The Iowa native grew up winning races at Drake Stadium and says she enjoys coming back where she has a big fan base.
• Jamestown Sun: After Bombing Out In 1st Round Of 2016 Trials After Finishing 4th At World Indoors Earlier That Year, Laura Roesler Quit Running And In The Process Sh Rediscovered Her Love For The Sport
• CitiusMag: “Shelby Houluihan Vs. Jenny Simpson Is The Ultimate Battle In Des Moines” Houlihan got her first career win over Simpson at the Pre Classic (after 7 straight losses). Could we see win #2 this weekend?
• Jesse Squire: What To Watch On Thursday At The USATF Championships In addition to the 10ks, the women’s triple jump final is a big event today.
• TFN: 10 Events To Grab Your Attention In Des Moines
• DyeStat: 10 Men’s Story Lines To Follow At USAs Ryan Crouser will try to be the first to win three consecutive shot put titles since 1973-75.
• DyeStat: 10 Women’s Story Lines To Follow At USAs Women’s TJ will be a great matchup between two-time US champ Keturah Orji and the woman who stole her American record last month, Tori Franklin.
• Register-Guard: Five Oregon Story Lines To Keep An Eye On In Des Moines There are seven current or former Oregon athletes in the men’s 1,500.
• World 400H Champ Kori Carter: “It’s going to be fun to test yourself against the best athletes in the world and, to do it on home soil, that’s not something that we get to do that often.” Too bad more of her peers don’t feel the same about non-World/Olympic years. Yes, pros who are skipping USAs, we’re talking to you.
• USATF Preview: Olympians, World Champions, American Record Holders To Vie For National Titles At USATF Outdoor Championships A run-through of the top matchups this week in Des Moines.

Was There Trouble In Eugene Paradise?

Here We Go

Breaking: Caster Semenya Will Challenge IAAF’s New Rules On Hyperandrogenism Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright said in a statement that the legal challenge would be filed on Monday at the CAS in Lausanne. Semenya said, “I just want to run naturally, the way I was born. It is not fair that I am told I must change. It is not fair that people question who I am. I am Mokgadi Caster Semenya. I am a woman and I am fast.” *Discuss

• IAAF Statement On Caster Semenya Challenging Their Hyperandrogenism Regulations They said that “competition between men and women [is] as meaningless and unfair as an adult competing against a child or a heavyweight boxer competing against a flyweight” and went on to say that Semenya’s advantage over other women is around half of men’s advantage over non-hyperandrogenic women.
• Toni Reavis Shares His Thoughts In The Wake Of Caster Semenya Announcing She’ll Challenge The IAAF “Why don’t women just compete against men? Because we would know the result before the start. It wouldn’t constitute apples racing apples, it would be apples against oranges.”
• NY Times: Caster Semenya Will Challenge Testosterone Rule in Court An IAAF statement said, “We stand ready to defend the new regulations at the Court of Arbitration should we be asked to do so.”

Hope You Had A Good Father’s Day

Me And My Dad (An Essay By Trevor Dunbar) Dunbar recalls having the time of his life when he attended the 2004 Trials as a 7th grader with his Dad and his Dad’s friends. He got to meet Alberto Salazar, who quipped, “There’s no such thing as too many miles, kid.” *MB: Al Sal advice to 7th grader Trevor Dunbar: “There’s no such thing as too many miles, kid.”

International Action

• France’s Jimmy Vicaut Roars To 9.92 Clocking To Win The Meeting De Marseille 100m It was the European 100m record holder’s 20th sub-10. Other action included Allyson Felix losing in the 400 (3rd in 52.01 in a race won by Italy’s Libania Grenot in 51.51) and Morocco’s Mostafa Smaili winning the 800 in 1:45.76 over GB’s Andrew Osagie (1:45.79).
• Moses Kibet (28:26) And Clémence Calvin (31:20) Win Langueux 10K In France Calvin was a surprise home win, breaking the French national 10K road record. Kibet won a close race, outsprinting Ethiopia’s Yismaw Ayenu by a second with Gizachev Hailu Negasa (28:28) a close 3rd.
• Timothy Cheruiyot (1:44.74) And Cellphine Chespol (2:06.48) Win 800s In PRs At Kenya Prisons Champs The steepler Chespol had earlier also won the 1,500.
• England U23/U20 Champs: Jake Norris Breaks British Under-20 Hammer Record With 80.45m The men’s u20 3000 was won with a 56-second last lap after what AW’s Steve Smythewrites was “effectively a 2000m jog, a 600m warm up and then a 400m race.”
• Only 76 Points Separate The Top 5 Decathletes After Day 1 Of Ratingen Multi Meet Germany’s Manuel Eitel is the surprise overnight leader while World silver medalist Carolin Schäfer leads the women’s heptathlon.

European News

• Men’s 200 In Lausanne On July 5th Is Going To Be Insane With Lyles, Coleman And New Pro Michael Norman Plus Semenya vs. Muir at 1,500.
• 50 Days To Go: 2018 European Championships Medals Unveiled

Previous Distance News

• Lengthy Feature: Cross-Country Coach Scott Beigel Died A Hero In The Parkland Shooting Beigel was off during the period when the shooting happened but lost his life after herding a ton of students into his classroom.
• Results From 2018 HOKA NJNY Twilight : Travis Mahoney Wins In 3:41, Nicole Tully Wins In 4:09
• Scientific Studies: Pre-Race Sex Won’t Hurt Your Athletic Performance
• Aliphine Tuliamuk Will Try To Defend Peachtree Title, Injured Leonard Korir Will Not, But Chris Derrick And Sam Chelanga Are Racing The race is serving as the USATF 10k champs once again. Women’s race will also include Sara Hall and Emma Bates.
• Missouri Coach Marc Burns Calls Karissa Schweizer 5k Victory “… her best [title] yet, without a doubt, because everyone had thrown her out, everyone had left her for dead after Thursday.”
• After Running A Solo 13:35, Kemoy Campbell Is Hoping To Break Jamaican Record At Jamaican Champs “It would be great to see if I could get the Jamaican record in Jamaica,” said Campbell, who is now training alone. He set the current mark at 13 minutes 20.39 seconds in 2015.
• Former Providence runner Julian Oakley is thriving in his first year as a pro but it torn as to what is his event “My long-term future might be over 5k but I really like running the mile,” said Oakel who has run pbs in the 1500m (3:39.92), the mile (3:55.10) and 3000m this year (7:44.34)
• The Bowerman: 2018 Men’s Semifinalists A slew of collegiate record holders are on the list but we guarantee you two of them won’t win – Josh Kerr and Michael Saruni.

Ostrava Golden Spike *Results

• LRC 2018 Ostrava Golden Spike Recap: Echevarria Soars To 8.66 World Leader In LJ, Gatlin Tunes Up For USAs With Win In 100, Barega Wins Again Juan Miguel Echevarria was sensational as the 19-year-old became the 1st human to record 3 jumps over 8.50 in the same competition in 21 years. American Ben True was with the leaders in the 3k at the bell and ran 7:41.86 and Genzebe Dibaba got smoked in the 800 and failed to break 2:00. Plus Gatlin won the 100, Kim Collins retired, Selemon Barega got a world lead in the 3,000, Dafne Schippers defeated Ahoure in the 200, and more.
• Ostrava Live Thread
• Wejo’s Thoughts On Ostrava: Ostrava Was Entertaining: Echevarria With 3 Bombs In Long Jump, Gatlin Wins 100 (Video)+ 25 Guys In The 3k, 13 Women In 800 

More Long Jump News

Greg Rutherford Will Retire At The End Of The Year As Injuries Have Taken Their Toll: “I just don’t want to be in pain every day of my life.” His athletic career isn’t over as he’s hoping to become a pro cyclist. No joke.
*Greg Rutherford: London 2012 Long Jump Champion To Try Track Cycling After Track Retirement
*RR Tribute: Greg Rutherford Ends AGlorious Career As He Competed, Squeezing Every Last Drop From His Crumbling Body “In any other era, Greg Rutherford probably wouldn’t have been an Olympic champion. His winning mark of 8.31m in London would not have won gold in any other Games since Tokyo 1964, or set a world lead in any of the past 40 years. Had rivals Dwight Phillips and Irving Saladino been fit then it might not have been enough in 2012, either. But Rutherford possessed a determination which transformed him from a talented long jumper into a multiple champion.”

Mike Powell loans his 1991 WR singlet to Ostrava museum until Continental Cup takes place there at end of summer 

2018 Chorzow, Poland Diary: Brittney Reese Ends 2018 Season, Now Focus Is On Preparing For 2019 We are very confused by this. Who needs 10 months to get ready for 2019? *Discuss