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 LRC Recap Bolt Does It Again In Brussels Usain Bolt thrilled a capacity crowd in Brussels on the final leg of the Golden League tour. He ran 19.57, but it was the enormous margin of victory and apparent ease that were so wonderful to watch. We recap almost every event, including a win for Anna Willard, 8:14 for Dan Huling, the oldest world record on the books going down, and 48.83 for Super Sanya as all three Jackpot contenders won.

Another Shocker From An American Distance Runner! Dramatic Final Leg Of The Golden League - Memorial van Damme From Brussels *Results

• Boards: Here we go. Brussels 5,000m is NOW. Matt Tegenkamp joins Ritz in breaking 13:00 ... 12:58.56!
• Boards: Golden League Meet is on Now, so you should be able to watch 4x1500m And a new World Record has been set ...
• Boards: Anna Willard Golden League win for Anna Willard in the 800m 1:59.14.
• Boards: HULING... 8:14!!! Unreal.
• Fantastic Bekele Quotes From IAAF He says "I have achieved everything." But before he retires he wants to tackle Daniel Komen's amazing 7:20 3,000m WR. He also talks about how good he feels after his short stint at altitude.
• Brussels Start Lists - Teg And Solinsky In 5,000m Will we see a new American record? Vote in the poll to the right. *Update: this might be the fastest-moving poll of all-time. 28% of voters see another sub-13:00 on the horizon.
• Sanya Richards Feels Perfect Going Into Big Money Race
• Bekele Spent 4 Days At Altitude In Ethiopia Between Weltklasse And Memorial van Damme Did the great Bekele have to go back to Ethiopia to get over the fact that Ritz was gaining on him in the final laps in Zürich?
• Bolt Running 200m - Rain And Cool Weather Again Threaten Fast Sprint Times In GL
• Big News That Should Not Go Unnoticed: Tyson Gay To Have Groin Surgery After Season Tyson Gay will run the 100m in Brussels against Asafa Powell while Usain Bolt will run the 200m.
• 4 x 1,500m World Record Attempt Taking Place In Brussels If the Kenyans send out a decent team, they could smash this 32-year-old record (14:38) set by the Germans, including Wessinghage.
• Good Drama: Burka, Wurth-Thomas And Cheruiyot To Chase Sonia O'Sullivan's 2000m World Record In Brussels Gelete Burka will run her first race back from her fall in the 1,500 final in Berlin. Vivian Cheruiyot will step down from 5k and go for Sonia O'Sullivan's 5:25.36 world record from 1994. Non-Running-Related Article On Sonia O'Sullivan That We Found Interesting O'Sullivan talks about how kids in Ireland don't play as much anymore because parents won't let them out of sight.

The Bolt Daily Telegraph

Track & Field First? Bolt Reportedly Receiving US $500,000 To Race In Daegu, South Korea We understand paying a top marathoner a half a mil to run twice a year, but this is rarified air for a 10-second race. Daegu is hosting the 2011 World Championships (we can't get over what a bad idea that is), so the more excitement he brings, the better.
*4 Golds In London? Bolt Says He'll Leave Event Decisions Up To Glen Mills While the headline claims Bolt will have a go at 4 gold medals in London, basically Bolt has said none of that. He does say he'd rather do the long jump than the 400m, but says preparation for 4 events will be very demanding.
*Bolt Says He Will Not Consider Himself A Legend Until He Has Many Fast Cars There is a reason this guy is popular.

LRC Ritz Speaks USATF held a teleconference with Dathan Ritzenhein Tuesday afternoon and we quickly give you the highlights. We tell you what Ritz had to say about new coach Alberto Salazar and what event Ritz will focus on for 2012. Plus we tell you what Ritz's next race will be. Is an American 10k record run a possibility?
More: Indy Star: Bob Kennedy Not Concerned He Isn't Record Holder Any More Kennedy says it's "the closing of one chapter and the opening of another" and for his sake let's hope it's true as the same day the record fell his wife filed papers to run for mayor of Indy. *Denver Post: Ritzenhein: American Track Idol *Grand Rapids Press: Ritz Reaches Goal Of 5k AR *Oregonian: Excerpts From Teleconfernece *USATF: More Excerpts

LRC The Week That Was This week we analyze Dathan Ritzenhein's 12:56 and try to tell you, "I told you so." We also argue that the IAAF would catch more drug cheats if they put the LRC community in charge and, lastly, we try not to forget Anna Willard and/or Shannon Rowbury.

Sept. 1 Recommended Read #1: Brief Chat With Kevin Hanson About Desireé Davila Kevin Hanson, who was so excited he lost his breakfast during Desireé Davila's amazing 2:27 11th place at Worlds, takes the reader through her running history. Amazingly, only one American woman has run faster than Davila in the marathon at a younger age, and that was Joan Benoit. Also, every time Davila - whose boyfriend has served as her only training partner leading up to Berlin - has put on a USA jersey, she has PRed.
Sept. 1 Recommended Read #2: India's Santhi Soundarajan Was Disqualified For Being A "Man" In 2006 - Says Nobody Fought For Her Time Magazine did a great job finding Soundarajan, whose disqualification left her, in her words, "physically and mentally totally broken."

Full Zagreb Results *Blanka Vlašic Jumps 2.08m *Vlašic Message Board Thread And Video Here Her 2.08 is the 2nd-best jump ever behind the 2.09m World Record, and apparently she almost jumped 2.10m, too. 2.08m is just under 6'10". Speaking of record-breaking women ... in case you missed it, Yelena Isinbayeva broke the women's pole vault WR 5.05m with a 5.06m (16'7") in the Weltklasse on Friday (of course, we overlooked everything but Ritz). That was the 15th time she has broken the record. *Zagreb Top Results: Cantwell 22.16m Shot Put Sets WL, Vlašic Jumps 2.08m
Oh, you were wondering about distance? Evan Jager ran 3:43 in a 3:36 race won by Belal Mansoor Ali.

LRC: Dathan Ritzenhein Breaks Bob Kennedy's American 5,000m Record In Zürich Amazed? So are we.

LRC 12:58.56 For Matt Tegenkamp In Brussels Seven days ago, Bob Kennedy was the only American one of two Americans (Bernard Lagat the other) to ever crack 13:00. Now Matt Tegenkamp and Dathan Ritzenhein have shattered the barrier in an awesome 1-2 punch for American distance runners.

Bolt Vs. Bekele Match Race In The Works When and where? We are not going to miss this. They should have it in Beaver Stadium or the Rose Bowl and see if they can sell 100,000 tickets. The most dominant sprinter and most dominant distance runner of all time are willing to run a match race at a distance between 600m and 800m in 2010. Their agents ... that may be a different story.
< 19.00 ? Bolt Says 200m Record Will Be Easier To Lower Than 100m

US Elites Hit The Road
*Elite New Haven 20k Entrants The men's field seems to be deep and even, the women's field is led by returning champion Jill Swope (Steffens) and Magdalena Boulet.
*Humphrey and Rodriguez Lead USA Team Against International Field At Rock n Roll Virginia Beach

Interesting Analysis
*CNBC Report On Manhattan Track Club Calls Them One Of The Top-10 Training Groups In The US
*Jim Hage Claims Bill Rodgers Is Most Dominant Marathoner Of All Time

*Mike Hurst Weighs In On Caster Semenya's Coach And Doping Past
*Semenya Waits In Limbo

Beijing 2008 - London 2012 - Rio 2016?
Olympic Committee Issues Vague Report That Hints At "Rio de Janeiro 2016" What happened to the Obama magic for Chicago? We'll leave it to the Chicago political machine to "convince" the IOC to bring the OG to the US.

Jamaicans Plead Guilty To Taking Banned Substance Jamaica wanted to let them go with no punishment but now it looks like they will get a "public warning."

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*LetsRun.com Homepage From 8 Years Ago HS senior Alan Webb was on the front page of the Washington Post and had just defeated Ryan Hall in a mile race, an email campaign was on to save UVA Men's track and message board posters were wondering if all the marathon courses in the '80s were short.
*How 20 Popular Websites Looked When Launched They must have forgotten to add LetsRun.com to the world's most popular website list.

Interesting Caster Semenya Articles Continue

• Huffington Post Writer Tackles Gender In Sports - He Likens Women's Sports To The Special Olympics Or 6-Feet-And-Under Basketball This was the best read of the bunch.
• Caster Semenya Coached By Former East German Head Coach?
• Mike Hurst Weighs In On Caster Semenya's Coach And Doping Past As if there hasn't been enough controversy surrounding this girl, it turns out that South Africa employs the former head of East German Dopers Athletics as a track coach. And yes, he is rumored to coach Semenya.
• Interesting NY Times Op Ed On Semenya and How Race, Politics, Society In South Africa Play A Complex Role In Her Story
• Rob Peters Of iAfrica On Why The Semenya Rage Is No Longer About Semenya He says it's more about political gain.
• Associated Press: South African Rape Victim Case Shows Dichotomy In Treatment Of Masculine Women While one female athlete is adored, another is swept under the rug.
• Female Writer: Media Missed An Opportunity To Embrace Diversity With Caster Semenya

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Upcoming Races From The Marathon To 110m Hurdles

*Return Of The Road Warriors! Sammy Wanjiru To Race Sammy Kitwara In Sep 13 Rotterdam Half Marathon The 22-year olds get to duke it out. Yes, they would be redshirt juniors if they were in college in the US.
*Masai And Cheruiyot Headline Strong Women's Challenge 5k In Hyde Park On Sep 6 Paula Radcliffe holds the course record at 14:51. Berlin 5k champ Vivian Cheruiyot will race 2k Friday in Brussels and then 5k Sunday in London.
*Former WR Holder Liu Xiang Could Compete In Shanghai Against Terrence Trammell It would be great to have Liu Xiang back in good form.
*New Haven 20k is on Labor Day *Elva Dryer Interview *Anthony Gallo Interview Where He Talks About Training With Jack Daniels In Flagstaff *2008 New Haven Results
*Oregon XC Kicks Off Season On Friday Several LRC voters have the Ducks at #1 but how will they do without Galen Rupp? *Oregon Releases The Most High Tech Media Guide In NCAA Running History Recruiting and media attention have been really tough for the Ducks, so hopefully this will help.

Already Happened:
USA 10km Trail Championships Were This Weekend In NC Princeton grad and steeplechaser Michael Spence won the men's 10k in just under 40 minutes. Must have been a bit of a tough course.

Recent/Upcoming Record Attempts
*Haile G To Race Duncan Kibet In Berlin On September 20 Geb has the WR at 2:03:59 and Kibet, thanks to the unbelievable Rotterdam Marathon in April '09, is the = second-fastest marathoner of all time with a 2:04:27. Maybe this will keep Rojo from blasting Geb for not racing anyone.
*World Record? Princeton's Slovenski Brothers Clear 10' Pole Vaulting Off Unicycle Then they swallow fire and walk a tightrope over a pool of sharks.
*Ritz's Blog From August 31

We Agree: Usain Bolt Says Kenenisa Bekele Deserves More Credit The great sprinter says the great distance runner deserves a lot more attention and fame.

Your Tax Dollars At Work ... Paying For Runners
*Bank Of America Spending A Fortune In Advertisements For The BoA Chicago Marathon At least our bailout money is being used to support running!
*Briton Jenny Meadows Hopes For Lottery Upgrade After World Championship 800m Medal She's been living off of 15,000 dollars of funding a year.