Quote Of The Day:

"It was very hard, I wanted to hide. I have no more tears to shed. Now I feel a bit better but last night I could not sleep. I had to go out for a walk around the city because I could not sleep."

- Spain's Natalia Rodriguez talking the day after her DQ after crossing the women's 1,500 meters first. Rodriguez called her actions a "tactical mistake," but former Olympic gold medallist Fermin Cacho called a spade a spade and called it a shove.

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12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day NineLRC The Week That Was This week we got scared when we realized that Jamaica's success at Worlds is the equivalent of the US winning 1,413 medals. Beyond that, we officially name Berlino as the greatest mascot in the world, give props to Jenny Meadows and Caster Semenya, wonder if Usain Bolt is the most dominant and charismatic athlete in the world, and hand out medals to relay squads from Texas A&M and Florida State.

Caster Semenya Update

Semenya Reportedly Has 3 Times The Testosterone As Average Female That fact apparently led IAAF to do extensive gender testing.
*Diack Admits Errors Made In Handling Of Semenya Case The head of the IAAF correctly says that more sensitivity should have been shown to Semenya but also correctly points out that racism has nothing to do with it.
*Semenya's Gender Test Is Wake-Up Call For Athletics

News From Europe

*Natalia Rodriguez Calls Her DQ A "Tactical Mistake" We call it a shove.
*Van Commenee Says 5 Medals In Berlin Doesn't Mean They Will Get 8 In London We think it's pathetic a country the size of Britain is measuring its self worth by whether or not they get 8 medals (just as we also think Project 30 is a joke). Who cares? They only deserved 4 in Berlin anyway.
*Van Commenee Won't Take Credit For GB Success

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Nine LRC Women's Marathon: Bai Xue Leads Chinese Red Army China's Bai Xue pulled away in the final kilometer from Yoshimi Ozaki of Japan to get the world title, as China took 3 of the top 5. American Kara Goucher was in contention but finished 10th after throwing up her fluids from the second water stop on and fellow American Desireé Davila was 11th.
*Yoshimi Battles The Robots And Wins Japanese Marathon Silver

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Nine LRC Malaudzi Completes South African Sweep Of 800m Races The wild men's 800m finished in style - with an unexpected winner in a tactical, physical race that saw defending champion Alfred Kirwa Yego come up just short of defending his title and American Nick Symmonds running 750m of perfection. Yusuf Saad Kamel grabbed his second medal, a bronze, to match his father Billy Konchellah's medal haul from Worlds back in the '90s.
*Mulaudzi Quotes After His 800m Win

Americans Finish Strongly
 *Brittney Reese (LJ) And 4 x 400m Win Gold On Final Day Usain Bolt was dominant, but the American 4 x 400m relays were perhaps just as far ahead of the rest of the world, as Jeremy Wariner and Allyson Felix ran ridiculously good second legs to put the race out of reach early. The US finished with 22 medals and the #1 spot with 10 golds ahead of Jamaica's 7. Reese jumped a world-leading 7.10 to win the long jump.

Kenya News

*Vivian Cheruiyot On Her Winning Plan To Take Down Defar
*IAAF Head Tells Nairobi Paper That Kenyans And Ethiopians Are Killing Cross-Country This article has some really interesting quotes.

Men's Marathon:12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Eight Abel Kirui On Top Of The World The unheralded Kenyan nearly ran sub-2:05 his last time out but was only third in the Rotterdam Marathon. Now he's the world champion and his life is changed forever. As he said afterwards, "My life is now high exposure." Emmanuel Mutai of Kenya was second and Tsegay Kebede got his third straight global bronze. Dan Browne was the first American in 24th.
*Great Quotes From Ethiopians And Kenyans After Dual In Marathon Goes To Kenyans
*Ethiopian Complains About Corners And Heat After Training In Cool Ethiopian Winter
*Kenyans Pleased With "B Team" Spanking Of Ethiopia's Best
*Kenyans Wonder What Happened To Kiprop And Choge In 1,500m Final
*Ezekiel Kemboi A Real Character: More Quotes In Kenyan Paper After His Steeple Win

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Eight *Amazing Men's Long Jump 73 Years After Jesse Owens, American Dwight Phillips Wins Long Jump Gold For US In Berlin, the former Olympic and world champion, who almost quit the sport, had his gold medal presented by relatives of Jesse Owens and Luz Long, who were friends long ago.

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Seven Men's 800m Semis Friday PM: LRC Absolutely Wild 800m Semis See Favorites Kiprop, Kaki And Ismail Fail To Advance We knew the 800m semis were going to be crazy, but we couldn't have expected such mayhem. Nick Symmonds advanced, as did 1,500m champ Kamel, reigning world champ Yego, Laalou and Olympic champ Borzakovskiy.

Track and Field: 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics Women's 1,500m Semis Friday PM: LRC 3 Americans Run Perfectly To Advance While Kenyans And Russians Make Surprise Exit Favorites Burka and Jamal won the heats but behind them were some big surprises from the Americans and Kenyans. 2008 Olympic champ Nancy Lagat took a dive across the line right on her face but missed the final.

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Six Men's 5k Prelims - Thursday PM: LRC 3 Americans And 3 Kenyans Advance, Saif Shaheen Out (link fixed)
The men's 5k trials weren't without drama. In the end, most of the big names advanced as Matt Tegenkamp and Bernard Lagat looked great, but Lagat was spiked and needed stitches afterwards.

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Six Men's 800 First Round - Thursday AM: LRC 800m Round 1 Men: ALL The Favorites, Nick Symmonds And KD Advance, Kiprop And Kamel Square Off Again The first round did not eliminate any of the favorites but there was a little drama as Yusuf Kamel and Asbel Kiprop were back racing each other just 15 hours after their 1,500m final. American Nick Symmonds won his heat and KD advanced as well. Recap, photos and video interviews.

Jamaica And Carribean Dominating Top Of Sprint World
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Jamaican Coach Steve Francis Says JAAA Should Try To Eradicate Doping From Jamaica Rather Than Persecute His Athletes For Missing Camp
*Women's 400m Hurdles Shocker Walker Blasts World Leader Demus In 2nd-Fastest 400m Hurdles Time Ever Run Women's Sprints: Jamaicans Have Won 6 Of 12 Medals Thus Far - And they've won all four golds if you count Jamaican-born Sanya Richards. Melaine Walker shut down thus-far dominant Lashinda Demus in the women's 400m hurdles.

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Five Sprint Tides About To Shift In The USA's Direction?
*Felix, Lee, Merritt, Wariner Look To Get Big US Sprint Medals
*Can Allyson Felix Stop The Bleeding? American Looking To Get Sprint Momentum With 200m Win Felix is running unbelievably well and might be the only American-born woman sprinter to win a gold.
*Wariner Says He's Expecting To Defend His Title Wariner vs. Merritt coming on Friday, as Baylor grad looks to get his #1 spot back.
*Wariner Desperate To Get #1 Label Back And Shut Up His Critics '04, '05 and '07 champ doesn't like being #2 to Merritt.
*Watch Out: Muna Lee Ready To Medal In The 200m The skinniest top sprinter in the world ran a super 200m semifinal to get a top lane for the final. She and Felix might go 1-2 and quiet the Jamaicans for a few seconds.

Track and Field: 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics LRC Men's 1,500m Recap: Kamel Follows In His Dad's Golden Footsteps The men's 1,500 saw Yusuf Kamel pull a stunning upset, as huge pre-race favorite Asbel Kiprop tried to go from last to first on the last lap and ended up fourth. Kamel (formerly Gregory Konchellah) joined his dad Billy (twice at 800m) as a world champ. American Bernard Lagat got boxed in with 150 to go but managed to get out for the bronze medal, as fellow Americans Lopez Lomong was 8th and Leo Manzano 12th. Recap, photos and post-race interviews with the Americans, Kamel and Augustine Choge. Kamel talks about how he ran 3:36 with no speed work. Plus he talks about his dad.

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Four LRC Men's Steeplechase Kemboi And Mateelong Go 1-2 In Amazing Men's Steeple We recap a super final that saw Paul Koech come in fourth in 8:01.26. Frenchman Bob Tahri broke up the Kenyan sweep, but it was still all smiles for champion Ezekiel Kemboi, who was hilarious after the race. *Videos Here

LRC Women's 1,500 Recap: Shannon Rowbury Goes Down In Fall, But Put In Semifinal
*Rowbury Reinstated To 1,500m Semifinal After Fall All 3 Americans will now advance.
*Steph Twell In Tears After Poor Performance

Recommended Read: Dick Patrick Writes About World #1 Lashinda Demus' Decision To Uproot Family And Get Serious Now Demus is trained by her Mom with no distractions ... other than her twin boys. Demus is in the final of the 400m hurdles after dominating most of the year.

Monday *Results
12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Three LRC Men's 10k:
A Day After Bolt's Electric 100m Run, Bekele Reminds Us He's Even More Dominant Than Bolt Kenenisa Bekele remained undefeated at the 10,000 meter distance for his life as he won in a championship record 26:46 thanks to a 13:05 2nd 5k. Eritrean Zersenay Tadese got a well-deserved silver after he put on a spirited frontrunning effort that would have broken anyone on the planet but Bekele. American Dathan Ritzenhein ran the race of his pro career to move up to 6th in 27:22 as Galen Rupp faded to 8th and had to be helped from the track.

LRC
Women's Steeple Final - Barringer Just Misses Medals Spain's Marta Dominguez got the win while Jenny Barringer's 9:12 American record was short of the medals in a come-from-behind bid.

LetsRun.com's Week That Was We try to tell you a few things you might not have known as we talk about the rumors regarding the new drug of choice in Berlin, talk about Ryan Hall's hair and encourage you to watch The Daily Show on Tuesday as they'll talk about Born To Run.

2 Cuban, 1 American and 3 Bahamian Athletes Arrested After Post-Worlds Night Club Scuffle

None Of The Following Usain Bolt News Is Made Up - We Swear

3 Tons Of Berlin Wall Are Given To Usain Bolt & Will Be Delivered To His Training Camp
As If Moving Up To The 400 Wasn't Enough To Make Him A Legend

*Usain Bolt Wants To Try The Long Jump Before He Retires World record holder (8.95m) Mike Powell is ready to coach him. "I can show him how to jump nine metres. We are dealing with a freak-of-nature athlete. He is off the charts."
*"Lightning That Strikes With A Smile" Made Worlds Memorable Like Olympics

We Agree: Berlino The Bear Was The Star Of The World Champs Come back tomorrow, as we're going to start a petition to make him the official mascot of all World Champs.

The Critics Come Out

Shelly-Ann Fraser Forced To Apologize For Not Joining 4 x 100 Celebration Sooner We guess this proves that all countries have to complain about something.
*AP: US Wins Medal Count - Jamaica Gets The Buzz

*Rousing Welcome For Kenya's Medallists - Abel Kirui wants Geb's marathon World Record now.

Worlds Links *LRC: Daily Results/Recap/Previews Page *IAAF Results
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12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Nine LRC Bekele Holds Off Lagat & Completes Historic Double To Stamp Himself As The Greatest Of All Time Kenenisa Bekele and Bernard Lagat had a stretch run for the ages, but in the end, Bekele had claimed a 10th global track crown. Now can we all agree he's the G-O-A-T? LRC Message Board: TEG - 1st 5K guy not born in Africa!

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Nine LRC Tumult Mars Women's 1,500 As Rowbury Wins Bronze Natalia Rodriguez and Gelete Burka got tangled up with 200m to go, causing Burka to fall and Rodriguez (the winner) to be DQed for running inside the track. With that, Maryam Jamal retained her world title despite getting steamrolled by Rodriguez in the final 100, while Shannon Rowbury was moved from 4th to 3rd for America's first medal in the event since Regina Jacobs. LRC Message Board: The Spanish athlete had enough room to pass, then the fading Ethiopian moved back on her
*Dobriskey Celebrates Silver

So, How'd It Go? We Say It Was Pretty Awesome!
*Doug Logan Does A Great Job Of Summing Up The American Team Performance At Worlds He's got a really sensible outlook.
*Unreal: Usain Bolt Given 2-Ton Section Of Berlin Wall With His Image Painted On It This is unbelievable.
*Kenyans Have Wild Championship Week Ending With 3rd-Most Medals Behind Jamaica And US The Kenyans seemed to miss out on a lot of medals but they also had a ton of bright moments including 1-2 in the women's 5k, men's marathon and men's steeple (and 1-3 in the men's 1,500, except those Kenyans had different jerseys on).
*Bolt Hopes His Exploits Can Help Change Track For The Better They already have.

Women's 5k Final: LRC Kenyan 1-2 Sweep Caps Greatest World Champs For Kenyan Women On The Track  Just like in 2007, the last lap was in 58.6 and the winning time 14:57.9. This time, however, the winner was not Meseret Defar, but Vivian Cheruiyot, the 2007 runner-up. Defar let up right before the line for the second time in a week, giving the silver to Kenya's "Forgotten Lady" Sylvia Kibet. American Jen Rhines was 9th. The two medals gave the Kenyan women a record 6 medals on the track (they had 7 total ever combined prior to 2007).

Olympics Day 14 - Athletics  *Amazing Men's Pole Vault Aussie Steve Hooker Overcomes Injury To Clear 5.90m On First Attempt! At first when he was injured, Hooker gave himself no shot at even competing. Then he was 50-50. Then in the prelims, he took one jump to get to the final. He said he had no chance at winning. Then in the final, Hooker soared over 5.85 but hit it on the way down. His second jump won him the gold as he got 5.90 on his first attempt. He is an amazing competitor.

World Record (And $100k) For Polish Hammer Thrower As Germans Get Another Medal!!! The Germans have been incredible. They won 0 medals in Beijing and now have 9 in Berlin after their women's 4 x 100m dove for bronze. The new WR holder twisted her ankle celebrating and sat out 4 throws. Germans have won a medal in every throwing discipline and the fans are loving it.
*Latest Medal Table Looking Interesting

Butterfingers? Despite Extra Practice, American Men And Women Fail To Make 4 x 100m Final The women's team really had it rough, as Muna Lee pulled something and couldn't finish her leg. The men exchanged out of the zone by about 1 inch and Great Britain protested to get them tossed.

*4 x 100m Finals: Bolt And Powell Blast Away From T&T To Give Jamaica Another Gold In 4 x 100m GBR got another medal in 3rd while Carribeans locked up gold and silver in both 4 x 100s. It was Bolt's first final without a WR since 2007, though their 37.31 is the 2nd-fastest ever run and a championships record. Despite the #2 performance of all-time, Steve Ovett was giving them advice on how to really run a fast time.
*Jamaica and Bahamas Go 1-2 In 4 x 100m Women's Final
*Veronica Campbell-Brown Kicked Off Jamaican 4 x 100m Team They won without the world champ.

Semenya Man-ia/Hysteria - Day 2
*LA Times: Semenya Has Heard The Gender Comments Her Whole Life
We Agree 100%: Caster Semenya's Poise Under Spotlight Earning Respect
*Man, Woman Or Both? Analyzing Gender Is Difficult.
*Sports Illustrated: IAAF Has No Right To DQ Semenya
*LRC Video Shows Up In Britain's Daily Telegraph
*LRC Video Up To 320,000 Views *Semenya Video #2 *Semenya Video #3

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Seven "Underdog" US Sprint Teams Rally Back Before Men's 4 x 100 Gets Dairy Queened (thanks, Brits) - Allyson Felix got the US women their first home-grown sprint gold before J Wariner and L Merritt won silver and gold, respectively. Felix is the most elegant sprinter. We said earlier in the year that Merritt is the king of the 400, despite Wariner being the 2-time world champion (and some of you wrote in calling us idiots). Well, despite Wariner's efforts, he can not beat Merritt.
*Felix And Merritt Dedicate Victories To Memory Of Jesse Owens
*Correct Analysis: Merritt Crushes Wariner Again
*NY Times: Jamaican Rise Starts - But Doesn't End With - Bolt
*Carribean "Magic" Continues 32-Year-Old Bahamian Debbie Ferguson Setting Lifetime Bests In Sprint Events She beat American Muna Lee for bronze.

Aussie News
*Aussie Long Jump Duo Look To Make History In Final
*Steve Hooker Jumping On Torn Adductor, Going For All Or Nothing

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Six 19.19!!! Bolt Does It!!! His 5th straight global championship gold and WR. Mr. Lightning proved Michael Johnson wrong, who said yet again Bolt wouldn't get the WR. Watch the video to the right.
5,000 News Articles On Bolt, We Present You With 5 Good Ones:
*"It will be a great thing for the Queen to dub me, 'Sir Usain Bolt.'" Maybe after you run sub-42 in 2012, Usain.
*Michael Johnson: "A ridiculous race. The bend is unbelievable. No one has ever run a bend like this and probably never will." Johnson awed crowds with record winning margins of 0.33. Bolt? In horse racing he won by 20 lengths, in human racing 0.61 seconds.
*Bolt Entered Stadium With T-Shirt Reading "Ich Bin Ein Berlino" Then he ran 19.19 and got a 20-minute standing ovation love-fest. If he needed another career he could be a PR specialist (PR = public relations).
*Jamaicans Celebrate Back Home - Why Not?
*Better Than Saying The Alternative ... Bolt Says: "I'm Clean."

Track and Field: USA Track & Field Championships Men's Decathlon: New "World's Greatest Athlete" Is ... Surprise! American Trey Hardee! With Olympic champ Bryan Clay out with injury, Texas Longhorn alum Trey Hardee not only won the decathlon in a huge personal best and by a huge margin, he also stamped himself as #10 all time in the world in the event. He almost broke the World Championships record with an 8790.
*Cuban Success: Cubans Get 4th WC Medal Without Dayron Robles - That's more medals than Great Britain. Cuban Leonel Suarez won the silver medal in the decathlon, joining 3 triple jump teammates as medal winners. Some of the Cuban decathletes were throwing the discus in running shoes. How do they train for all the events?
*Men's 110 Hurdles: Robles Crashes Out! Brathwaite Wins First Barbados World Title He won by 0.01 over two Americans with the best lean. *Robles Quoted In Communist Paper Saying He Hoped To Present The Medal To Castro As Birthday Present

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Six *Men's Pole Vault: Aussies Love To Talk About Their Balls - Steve Hooker Definitely Has A Big Pair Vaulting on a partially torn adductor, Olympic champ Hooker had a monster clearance of the automatic height on his only attempt of the day before laying in the pit in huge pain. He did no warmup and says he's going to just go for a medal in the final. Watch his post-jump interview here, where he says he can't beat the young Frenchman Lavillenie (left).
*Speaking Of 1 Jump: Dwight Phillips Through To Final With Huge 8.44 The American sent a big message with 1 jump far better than anyone else's on the day. 2 Aussies are also in the final and zero Jamaicans.

"Beautiful Blanka" Performs Under Pressure And Wins 2nd-Consecutive WC High Jump
Who says field is boring? It was an amazing competition as the packed stands cheered on the field, including German co-favorite Ariane Friedrich, who dramatically claimed the bronze. The fans cheering for Vlasic would be like Cowboys fans giving Eli Manning a standing-O for a game-winning touchdown pass to Plax.

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Five
LRC Caster Semenya Dominates Women's 800, But Is She "Entirely Female"? For the 2nd straight year, an 18-year-old African dominated the women's 800, but this year the winner is garnering worldwide headlines as people wonder, "Is she entirely female?" Behind Semenya, there was a great 3-way battle for the final two medals. *Semenya's Mom: "She is my little girl. I raised her and I have never doubted her gender." *Good Morning American Story On Semenya That Uses LRC Footage *Phil Hersh Article On Semenya *LRC: Message Board Thread On Semenya Here *Watch our interview with Semenya here.

Berlino - GMOAT - (Greatest Mascot Of All-Time) In His Finest Berlin Moment

Usain Bolt Absolutely Obliterates 200m WR

Worlds Friday

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Six Men's 800m Semis Friday PM: LRC Absolutely Wild 800m Semis See Favorites Kiprop, Kaki And Ismail Fail To Advance We knew the 800m semis were going to be crazy, but we couldn't have expected such mayhem. Nick Symmonds advanced, as did 1,500m champ Kamel, reigning world champ Yego, Laalou and Olympic champ Borzakovskiy.

Women's 1,500m Semis Friday PM: LRC 3 Americans Run Perfectly To Advance While Kenyans And Russians Make Surprise Exit Favorites Burka and Jamal won the heats but behind them were some big surprises from the Americans and Kenyans. 2008 Olympic champ Nancy Lagat took a dive across the line right on her face but missed the final.

Semenya Man-ia/Hysteria - Day 2
*LA Times: Semenya Has Heard The Gender Comments Her Whole Life
We Agree 100%: Caster Semenya's poise under spotlight earning respect
*Man, Woman Or Both? Analyzing Gender Is Difficult
*Sports Illustrated: IAAF Has No Right To DQ Semenya

Worlds Thursday

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Six 19.19!!!Bolt Does It!!!
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"It will be a great thing for the Queen to dub me, 'Sir Usain Bolt.'" Maybe after you run sub-42 in 2012, Usain.
*Michael Johnson: "A ridiculous race. The bend is unbelievable. No one has ever run a bend like this and probably never will." Johnson awed crowds with record winning margins of 0.33. Bolt? In horse racing he won by 20 lengths, in human racing 0.61 seconds.
*Bolt Entered Stadium With T-Shirt Reading "Ich Bin Ein Berlino" Then he ran 19.19 and got a 20-minute standing ovation love-fest. If he needed another career he could be a PR specialist (PR = public relations).
*Jamaicans Celebrate Back Home - Why Not?
*Better Than Saying The Alternative ... Bolt Says: "I'm Clean."

Women's 400m Hurdles Shocker
Walker Blasts World Leader Demus In 2nd-Fastest 400m Hurdles Time Ever Run

Worlds Wednesday

Track and Field: 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics LRC Men's 1,500m Recap: Kamel Follows In His Dad's Golden Footsteps

LRC
Caster Semenya Dominates Women's 800, But Is She "Entirely Female"?
For the 2nd straight year, an 18-year-old African dominated the women's 800, but this year the winner is garnering worldwide headlines as people wonder, "Is she entirely female?" Behind Semenya, there was a great 3-way battle for the final two medals. *Semenya's Mom: "She is my little girl. I raised her and I have never doubted her gender."*Good Morning American Story On Semenya That Uses LRC Footage *Phil Hersh Article On Semenya

Worlds Tuesday

LRC Men's Steeplechase Kemboi And Mateelong Go 1-2 In Amazing Men's Steeple

*Men's 400m Hurdles Torch Officially Passed As Clement Wins 2 In A Row - Felix Sanchez Last - 17-Year-Old 4th Clement looked amazing and Batman Jackson charged hard for third running on an injured hamstring. 17-year-old Jehue Gordon's time of 48.26 moves him to #2 all-time for juniors.

*Women's 400:
Sanya Gets Monkey Off Her Back, US On A Roll Jamaican-born Sanya Richards (the most prolific producer of sub-50 times in history) ran a world leader in the final in a brilliant tactical race to get her first individual WC or Olympic title. She executed her and coach Clyde Hart's strategy with a big move in the 3rd 100m to run away from a talented field. Brit Christine Ohuruogu couldn't get up for a medal.
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NY Times: Richards Can Finally Celebrate Title

Worlds Monday

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day Three LRC Men's 10k: A Day After Bolt's Electric 100m Run, Bekele Reminds Us He's Even More Dominant Than Bolt Kenenisa Bekele remained undefeated at the 10,000 meter distance for his life as he won in a championship record 26:46 thanks to a 13:05 2nd 5k. Eritrean Zersenay Tadese got a well-deserved silver after he put on a spirited frontrunning effort that would have broken anyone on the planet but Bekele. American Dathan Ritzenhein ran the race of his pro career to move up to 6th in 27:22 as Galen Rupp faded to 8th and had to be helped from the track.

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Women's Steeple Final - Barringer Just Misses Medals Spain's Marta Dominguez got the win while Jenny Barringer's 9:12 American record was short of the medals in a come-from-behind bid.

LRC Men's 1,500 and Women's 800 Semis Recap It was polar opposites for the Americans as three made the 1,500 final and none made the 800 final. Pamela Jelimo dropped out while Leo Manzano almost outkicked Asbel Kiprop. We're recapping the event as we speak ...

Worlds Sunday

9.58 WR!!! Usain Bolt Does The Unthinkable!
*Bolt Runs Mind-Blowing 9.58
*Bolt Predicted 9.5 Back In July
*USATF: "Thank You, Tyson Gay." Gay set the AR at 9.71.
*Vili Becomes Double World Champion - Dominant Kiwi shot putter overcame stiff competition.
*Ennis, First Brit Heptathlon World Champion, Gives Country More Hope For 2012 Glory If the Brits perform like the Germans are performing at this WC, they'll get tons of medals.

Worlds Saturday

12th IAAF World Athletics Championships - Day One LRC Women's 10,000m: 9,950 Meters According To Form And A Very Bizarre Finish This race had it all. Craziness, stupidity, and drama - all in the final 50 meters. Recap, photos, and video interviews, plus interviews with Americans Amy Yoder Begley (6th in a PR) and Shalane Flanagan.

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