LRC Meet Sarah Attar - Saudi Arabia's First Female Track & Field Athlete The woman who will make history in traditional Islamic attire at the Olympics is a Pepperdine sophomore who runs in shorts during the collegiate season. She's never run an 800 in college, but that's what she'll run in London.
US/Canada Pro News
- Meb Keflezighi Thinks He Has Another PR In Him For London Says he's never been at "high mileage" for a marathoner, as he never hit 150 (highest is 136) and is usually between 115-130.
- Recommended Read: They Told Gunshot Victim Bryshon Nellum He May Never Walk Again, But Now He's An Olympian Coach Ron Allice: "I'm happy he's going to the Olympics. But as far as I'm concerned, he's already won."
- Sheila Reid Will Be An Olympian: After A Second Appeal Sheila Reid Named To Canadian Team
*Athletics Canada Official Release - Two Stanford Stars & NCAA Champs Are Going To Olympics - But Not In Distance Events Katerina Stefanidi (wPV) and Amaechi Morton (m400H) did what Chris Derrick was unable to do - win an NCAA title and make the Olympics.
- A Look At Kim Conley And The Group Which Helped Fund Her Olympic Dream, The Sacramento Running Association Director John Mansoor: "The number of texts and e-mails I've gotten, suddenly everybody thinks anything's possible."
- Pat Tyson Talks About Steve Prefontaine And Says The Pre Movies Are Only About 50% Accurate Read the book "Pre" or watch the movie "Fire On The Track" if you want the 100% true story.
- Women's 100 Hurdles Highlight Toronto’s National Track League Finale As It Included 5 Of 6 Canadians With "A" Standard Nikkita Holder won in 12.83. Nate Brannen easily won the 1500m in 3:38.68.
US Controversy
- NY Times: Jeneba Tarmoh And Her Agent Still Unhappy About How Dead Heat Controversy Was Handled Tarmoh says she felt they "were puppets" and her agent complained that they had no chance to appeal initial decision since they didn't hear from USATF until later that night. We can confirm that since we were there.
- LRC Day-By-Day OT Coverage If you were living under a rock during the trials, go here to catch up.
- Senator Furious That US Olympic Dress Uniforms Were Made In China And Says "They should ... put them in a big pile and burn them." Not to mention the competition uniforms have almost no white or blue.
- Joe Paterno's Name Taken Off Nike Facility
- Michael Phelps Responds To Teammate Calling Him Lazy *MB: Lazy Phelps called out by Clary
- What's Next For DyeStat? John Dye: "It's totally up in the air at this point. ... I hope that something does come through."
Anti-Drug News
- Recommended Read: A Peek Inside At The Top Athletes Looking for an Edge and the Scientists Trying to Stop Them Great article. A little doping science, history, and inside stories all wrapped up into one.
- Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Dwain Chambers Warns Olympic Athletes Of Doping Dangers "World records can be done cleanly. I got worse on drugs. It did not help me in any capacity. It made me a very unsociable person and ruined my career and the image of the sport."
Sad News:
*Former HS XC Runner & Twin Committed Suicide After Suffering From Chronic Blushing
*RIP Former UO Track Director Donald "Skip" Pickens
US Pros In The News
- Galen Rupp Switches Agents From Michael Johnson To Ricky Simms *Discuss
- ESPN The Magazine: Body Issue 2012 (Featuring Ashton Eaton, Walter Dix)
- Brief Chat With US Trials Steeple 3rd Placer Kyle Alcorn He finished 5 seconds ahead of 4th place, but collapsed on the track when he finished as he was all out and running scared right up until the line.
- USA Today Q&A With Reese Hoffa, Who Says TV Camera Angles Make Him Look As Tall As Everyone Else Even Though He's Only 5' 11" "There's a lot of time between now and then, and who knows what could potentially happen to me. I could be walking to my car and fall off the curb wrong and there goes my ankle. I'm trying to be very careful on curbs."
- Janet
Cherobon-Bawcom Only Started Running At Age 19 After Randomly Getting A
Ride From Peter Rono And Came To The US With A 5k PR Over 20 Minutes
*Q&A With Cherobon-Bawcom "To be honest, I was so sick in Eugene that I can't even pretend that I had a strategy. " - Good Profile On US Trials LJ Champ Brittney Reese "I can say it feels good, hearing that I'm the favorite, but [in Beijing], I was the favorite to win the bronze and I went out there and got fifth."
- Ashton Eaton And Allyson Felix Are Among Athletes Who Could Get 6-Figure Endorsement Deals If They Win Gold In London
- Twitter: List Of US Olympic Track Athletes On Twitter
UK/Olympic News
- Don't Leave Home Without It: Mo Farah And Other Athletes May Not Be Allowed To Stay In The Athlete Village As Their Altitude Tents Are Too Big And Noisy
- Naked Man With "Free Tibet" Written On His Back Streaked Past Crowds Watching Olympic Torch Relay
- Title IX Makes It To The Middle East: Qatar Will Have Female Flag Bearer During Olympic Opening Ceremonies
- Want Fries With That? McDonalds Gets Monopoly On French Fries During Olympics; Other Restaurants Banned From Serving The loophole is if they serve it with fish.
- Phillips Idowu Contradicts van Commenee By Claiming That He Isn't Nor Has He Been Injured He may be healthy now, but he clearly was hurt at some point as he pulled out of the Pre Classic after an awkward jump and didn't compete in the UK Trials or any competition since.
- London 2012 Is Currently £476 Million, But They Expect To Spend More On Unforeseen Hitches During The Games
- German Olympic Committee Head Thomas Bach Frontrunner To Become IOC President After Jacques Rogge
- Former IOC Member Confirmed As Having Received Massive Kickbacks From FIFA's Former Marketing Partner
- London's Increased Security Before Games Leads To 14 Counter-Terror Arrests In Just In One Week
- UK 400m Runner Kim Wall Retires After Not Being Selected For Olympic Team
US Distance Olympians Past & Present Getting Some Pub
- Sometimes Non-Collegiate Stars Do Make The Olympics: Kim Conley Gets Pub In NY Times As Rags-To-Riches Olympic Story
- A Look Back At the Great Career Of 1984 And 1992 Olympic Trials 1,500 Champ Jim Spivey Spivey, a 3-time Olympian, ran 3:49.80 for the mile and 13:15 for 5,000.
LRC 2012 Ethiopian Olympic Track & Field Team Named: Mr. Silver Sileshi Sihine Stays At Home - Tirunesh Dibaba Only "Reserve" In Women's 5,000
*Crazy: After Diamond League Win, Swedish Govt. Gives 1,500 Ace Abeba Aregawi Citizenship & Files Suit With IAAF Saying She Should Represent Them, Not Ethiopia, In Olympics The article, which is based off an Ethiopian report, says Aregawi's citizenship request had been going nowhere until her sudden fame and that she wants to represent Ethiopia. Given Ethiopia's press manipulation,
this should be interesting to see how it develops.
*Update: Swedes Have Totally Different Story: Aregawi Really Wants To Compete For Sweden But Ethiopians Have Taken Her Cell Phone & Threatened Her (Translated form Swedish)
News From The UK
- Roger Bannister Carries Olympic Torch On Famous Oxford Track And Reflects He says he knows he'll always be known for his running exploit - not his great neurological science work - but he's fine with that.
- 61 Members (9%) Of British Olympic Team Are "Plastic" Brits - Born Elsewhere
- A Look At The Impact That Head Coach Charles "The Volcano" van Commenee Has Had On British Team
- A Day-By-Day Guide Of The Best Of The Track & Field Action For A British Track Fan
Event-By-Event Track & Field Predictions For Team GBR Very optimistic if you ask us. - British Columnist Is Mad Brits Have No Chance In Track & Field's Marquee Events - The 100m And 1,500m
- British 200m Runner Richard Kilty Sounds Off Against UK Athletics For Not Naming Him To Team Despite 2 "A"s To be fair, he was only 8th at the British Trials, but Britain only send 2 guys.
- TJer Yamile Aldama: "Please don't label me plastic Brit." Having spent time in Cuba and then Sudan, we know she's thrilled to be in the UK.
- And From Jamaica: Jamaica Sending 50 To Olympics
- Jamaica's Novlene Williams-Mills Is Going To Have To Work Hard To Medal In 400 In London
Stars In The News
- Bolt's Back: "He's back to normal, he's back in full training and he's good to go." The hamstring tightness is apparently gone.
- AP: Will Bolt's Recent Losses Make The 100m And 200m Even More Popular?
- Yohan Blake To Race 100m In Switzerland On Tuesday Blake is avoiding the pressure of the DL circuit to run on a fast track where Nesta Carter ran 9.86 in 2010.
- Recommended Read: The Telegraph Catches Up With 1996 Olympic Star Michael Johnson, Who Is Enjoying The Life He "Always Wanted" Talking from his "exquisite home high in the hills above San Rafael, northern California," the perfectionist Johnson thinks he's mellowed a bit, but his second wife reveals he still makes her work out. Johnson: "What I did changed sprinting and how people looked at sprinters. It also changed the economics of the sport in terms of the financial demands I was able to make."
LetsRun.com - Trying To Keep You Entertained On A Boring Mid-Summer Day At Work
- Mark Zuckeberg's Freshman Roommate, Samyr Laine, Will Triple Jump For Haiti In Olympics Haiti's GDP is 1/2 of Facebook's market cap. Laine says Zuckerberg wasn't all that eccentric.
- Interesting Read: Exhibit & Play On Eric Liddell Now Going On In London: The Man Who Would Not Run On A Sunday The guy immortalized in Chariots of Fire died at age 43 in a POW camp.
- Interesting Read #2: Alan Abramson Bemoans Fact That Only 1-2% Of Drug Tests Result In Positive "If you went out and did a job that came back with a one or two percent return rate, what would your boss say to you?" We agree; there's got to be a better way to catch the cheats. Everyone knows who most likely is doing it - test them all the time.
- Column: Weighltifting Has A Ban Where An Entire Country Is Banned If There Are 3 Or More Positives in A Given Year - Should Track & Field Follow A Similar Path? The writer also proposes a $500,000 fine for each federation.
- Hope Solo Tests Positive This shows the stupidity of testing for cannibis and this pre-menstrual drug. MB: Letsrun missed this: Hope Solo tests positive for prohibited substance.
- College Kids Rejoice: Study Finds Some Benefits Of Moderate Beer Consumption Emphasis on the moderate.
- Data Disproves 180-Steps-Per-Minute "Rule" With 600 to go in the OT 5,000, all the runners varied, as Galen Rupp was at 187 steps per minute, Bernard Lagat at 195, and Andrew Bumbalough at 202. So we're not sure how this disproves it, as the guy closest to 180 wins.
- 35-Year-Old Obstacle Racer/2:16 Marathoner Explains To Runners World How He Can Be The First To Crack The 2 Hour Marathon
- Cartoon: An Olympic Trials Airspace Violation Cartoonist isn't happy that Nike took offense to Brooks' guerilla marketing.
Weekend Results: 1:56.76 For Jelimo, Two World Leads For The US
- Belgium: Pamela Jelimo Sets World-Leading 1:56.76 19-year-old Abraham Kipchirchir Rotich (paced by US's Matt Scherer) ran 1:43.15 in the 800, while Albert Kiprop won the 5,000 in 13:01.91. *Full Results
*Kenyan Coach Thinks Jelimo Can Get 800m WR The WR is 1:53.28 and her PR is 1:54.01. - Illinois Gill Field Fest: Jenn Suhr Vaults World-Leading 15-10
*Video: US Trials 3rd-Place Shot Putter Christian Cantwell Throws World-Leading 22.31m - Madrid (Full Results): Cayman Islands' Kemar Hyman Wins 100 With His First-Ever Sub-10 At 9.95 Molly Beckwith was 2nd in the 800 in 2:00.35 as Shannon Rowbury was 10th in 2:04.53. Lolo Jones won the 100 hurdles in 12.70 Steve Hooker continued his string of horrible performances as he no-heighted in the PV.
*Jamaica's Kemar Bailey-Cole Also Joins Sub-10 Club With 9.98 - Belarus: Nadzeya Ostapchuk Sets Shot Put World Lead At 21.39m Olympic champ Valerie Adams could be in trouble.
Sprint Stuff
- The Science Of The Sport Analyzes The Current State Of The Men's 100m And Recent Distance Performances, Including Possible Russian Doping In the 1,500 He thinks Bolt's losses to Blake are troubling, but Bolt is still the favorite. Although with Powell, Gatlin and Gay, there are a few potential challengers.
- NY Times Article Looks At World Champ Amantle Montsho And The Characteristics Of A Good 400m Runner Apparently her coach uses games in practice to work on her reaction time by holding up different objects and only having her start on a certain one.
UK News
- UK 4 X 1 Looking To Get Their Act Together For London After A DNF At European Champs Continued A Pattern Of Inability To Get The Baton Around The Oval
- Snubbed Marilyn Okoro Drops Quit Threat And Joins UK 4 X 400 Relay Squad
- Know Your History: A Look Back At The Life Of Eric Liddell, The 1924 Olympic 400m Champ Who Inspired The Film "Chariots Of Fire" Many might not know that he died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in 1945.
- Jessica Ennis Is Cosmopolitan UK's Latest Cover Girl
MB: Jordan Hasay, Kyle Merber & Gabe Proctor Win Gold At NACAC U-23 Champs In Mexico Elliott Krause won a silver and Riley Masters a bronze. *Full NACAC Results
News From The UK/Ireland
- No More Than 300 People Watch Jessica Ennis In Last Meet Before The Olympics 300 paying customers. To be honest, we're surprised it was that high. You'd have to pay us to basically watch her practice the LJ and javelin.
- Irish Sprinter Crushes 20.55 "A" Standard With 20.40 But Won't Go To Olympics Due To 3.0 Wind The sad thing is according to conversion charts, it equates to 20.55 with no wind.
- British Jr. Long Jumper Jazmin Sawyers Also Competes In Bobsleigh In Winter
Usain Bolt Making News By Not Running
The World Panics As Bolt Flies To Germany To Get Treatment From Controversial Doc - His Management Team Promises He'll Run
In London
Column: Bolt Should Be Worried - Worried About "The Beast" Yohan Blake
Michael Johnson: "With complete overhaul of his technique," Usain Bolt Can Run 9.4 Kind of ironic that a guy who had his own unorthodox style thinks Bolt should change his.
The 100m World Record Turns 100 Years Old
News From The UK/Ireland
UK 800 Runner Gareth Warburton Wins Appeal & Is Named To Olympic Team UK Athletics admitted
they consulted an independent legal team.
The Precursor To The Olympics: The 126th Wenlock Olympian Games Start Sunday They are designed to "promote the moral, physical and intellectual improvement of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Wenlock,
and especially of the working classes, by the encouragement of outdoor recreation."
140th Irish Championships Set To Begin In Dublin
US Female Olympians In The News
- Julie Culley's Mom & Dad Say Her Trials Win Was The Greatest Moment Of Their Lives
- A Brief Chat With US 800 Olympian Geena Gall
Mid-Week Action - Thursday's Liege Meet *Results
IAAF Recap 19- or 25-year-old Kenyan, who was 4th at Kenyan Trials, runs 1:43.62.
MB: World Champ Ibrahim Jeilan Drops Out Of 10,000 - Won't Go To Olympics The winning time of the 3rd Ethiopian 10k Trials was 27:17, meaning that while Jeilan is out - Kenenisa Bekele is in.
*MB: Pamela Jelimo Runs 4th-Fastest 600 Ever - 1:23.32
*MB: Abraham Rotich: 19-Year-Old Runs 1:43.62, Won't Be In London
*Wait A Minute ... The IAAF Recap Says Rotich Is 25, Not 19
*2012 Moncton Hub City Classic (Canada) Results
The Bell Sprint Curve - Michael Johnson Presents Controversial UK Race/Speed Documentary *Video Trailer
- Michael Johnson Presents Documentary In The UK That Explores "... why descendants of slaves will take the medals in the London 2012 sprint finals." Johnson: "... it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations."
- Documentary Website: "Survival Of The Fastest"
- Another MJ Article
- MB: Michael Johnson says that slave descendants have "athletic genes"
Amateur Hour II
Update: Nike Responds (Like We Thought They Would) "Gaining entry into the Nike box is an informal process and we plan to review our protocol for access for future events." *MB: Mark Block: Nike
Responds
LRC Why Was A Man In The Midst Of A 10-Year Doping Ban Enjoying The 2012 US Olympic Track & Field Trials From The Nike Sky Box? If you thought the days of looking the other way at doping were totally over, then you need to read this. Supposed former agent/coach
Mark Block, who is in the midst
of a 10-year doping ban, was seen by LetsRun.com enjoying the Trials in the sky box of the #1 sponsor of both USATF and the Olympic Trials - Nike. All we can say is shameful. *MB: Discuss
UK News: Paula May Be In Trouble
- Paula Radcliffe Visiting "Healing Hans" To Try And Get Over Foot Injury Before London She says she can still run on it, but is "in agony" afterwards.
- Roger Bannister Talks About How He Would Have Quit Running And Never Broken 4 Minutes If He Had Won Gold In 1952 Games
Ezekiel Kemboi May Still Face Charges For Alleged Stabbing
- Ezekiel Kemboi Not Out Of The Woods Yet As New Investigation Is Being Launched Kenyan Olympic Committee is still giving him their support to stay on the team.
*Recent Stabbing Charges Have Marred The Image Of Ezekiel Kemboi With his post-race dances and bold statements, under normal circumstances, Kemboi could be considered the Usain Bolt of the steeplechase. - Two Members From Kenya's Daegu World 4 X 4 Team Kicked Off Due To Poor Form Ahead Of The London Games
More Drug News
- CyclingNews.com Evaluates Lance Armstrong's Legal Arguments Against USADA The hearing is set for November.
- Three Russians, Including Two European Gold Medallists, Get Banned For Doping Thanks To Biological Passport System
- Flotrack's Ryan Fenton Skeptical About Other Russians As Well
2012 US Olympic Trials *Results *LRC Trials YouTube Channel *Photos: Day 1 (10ks), Day 2 (Eaton), Day 3 (100, 400), Day 4 (800), Day 7 (5,000s), Day 8 (W Steeple), Day 9 (200, 110H) *LRC Day-By-Day Coverage *Sunday Oregonian Photo Gallery
LRC
Three Best Punch Their Tickets To London As Leo Gets US Title #1 Leo Manzano, the man who had been top three every year since 2006, finally got the win he deserved but even he didn't expect. Manzano chased down Centro to get his first national title as Wheating pulled away from Robby Andrews to get third. *Men's
Race Video
LRC World #1 Uceny, World Champ Simpson And Medallist Rowbury Get It Done The Big
3 came
through as US #1 Morgan Uceny got her second straight US title with Rowbury 2nd and Simpson third. LetsRun.com recap hopefully coming later. *Women's Race Video
*After Winning The State XC Title As A Freshman, Morgan Uceny Quit Her Junior Year To Focus On Basketball That's what you do when you live in Indiana in a small town of 10,033 that has a high school basketball gym that seats 4,600.
*Oregonian Recap Of Men's 1,500m Where Leo Wins And 2 Former Ducks Make Team
RRW: Manzano And Uceny Win Trials 1,500 Crowns
*Good Read: USATF's Handling Of The Felix-Tarmoh Match Race Undercuts A Good Meet The Eugene Register-Guard also criticized USATF for its bumbling on the runoff (insisting that the team would be selected last week by Sunday).
(Non-distance Trials Sunday coverage in the middle column)
- On The Boards: LEO!!
- UCENY, ROWBURY, SIMPSON. WHY DID THEY BOTHER WITH 3 ROUNDS
- Will Any of the M1500 Top 3 Make It to the OG Final??
- Robbie Andrews has got to be in Shock right now...
- Should Sanya Richards-Ross be DQ? She was all over the line in the 200?
- 20/20 Hindsight Anna Pierce Should Have Stayed With The Steeple
- Angelo Taylor- America's hardest working and toughest runner
Friday Photo Gallery (Click Here)
The US Olympic Trials *Results *TV Schedule *LRC Trials YouTube Channel *Photos: Day 1 (10ks), Day 2 (Eaton), Day 3 (100, 400), Day 4 *Check Prediction Contest Scores *LRC Day-By-Day Coverage
LRC The Women's 5,000 Final - The Olympic Trials At Its Absolute Best This race is what the Olympic Trials are all about. The race had the American record holder in the race, it had seven women with the "A" standard in it, and it had a bunch without the "A" who dreamed of the "A" and were wiling to do the work to try to get it. At the finish, there was a surprise winner in Julie Culley and American record holder Molly Huddle finished 2nd to make her first Olympic team. But for eternity, this race will be remembered for one thing - the most thrilling of victories and the most agonizing of defeats - and by victory and defeat we mean the victory of finishing third and defeat of finishing fourth.
- More Trials: AP Recap Of Thursday
- Race Of Her Life Puts Kim Conley On The Olympic Team
- Talk About Pressure: Lance Brooks Qualifies For Olympics With "A" Qualifier On Final Throw
- Alberto To Rupp: "If you put yourself with him, you're going to get a surge from the crowd and an adrenaline rush that you've never gotten before." Oregonian
- Tianna Madison Leads 200m Round 1 At Trials
- Wheating Has Another Chance For Stardom ... And Not Just In Videos Sports Illustrated
- Track Town Is Nike Town
Thursday Photo Gallery (Click Below. We Don't Have A Great Photo Of The Women's 5k Finish. For A Great Photo Of It, Click Here.)
Previous Trials
LRC Justin Gatlin Did Not PR, And Other Drug-Related News Justin Gatlin is back, running a 9.80 PR after 4 years away, with a new coach. What sort of fantasy world is the media living in?
*San Diego Tribune: Doping pasts haunt Olympic track trials
LRC Bryan Clay - Don't Let A Pointless USATF Rule Keep You From London Another poorly thought-out USATF rule is possibly keeping Bryan Clay from London. He should follow Genevieve LaCaze's lead and hit the standard and we guarantee the USOC
sends him to
London.
LRC 1,500 Starts Thursday: What Big Names Go Home? A Waste Of Time The 1,500s should be epic, as in both the men's and women's races one very famous person is bound to go home empty-handed. One of the following men will go home: Matt Centrowitz, Leo Manzano,
Andrew Wheating or Robby Andrews. One of the following women will go home: Morgan Uceny, Jenny Simpson,
Shannon Rowbury or Anna Pierce.
Administrative News
Did You Make The Olympic Team? We've Got A Prize For You - 3 Hours Of Paperwork To Fill Out The article reveals that Ashton Eaton can get a single room in the village if he wants it - everyone else is double occupancy.
More Trials
- SI's Tim Layden Gives A Behind-The-Scenes Account Of The 100m Controversy Excellent in-depth explanation by Tim Layden, with photos, video, and even some props to LetsRun.com. Roger Jennings: "If I hadn't protested myself, I'm not sure anyone else would have."
Canadian Marathoners Lanni Marchant & Krista DuChene Are Denied Entry Into Olympics Despite Having "A" Standard They didn't meet the stricter Athletics Canada standard.
*MB: Canadians: What is up with your crazy Olympic qualifying process?
Olympic Trials Monday
LRC Mr.
Hayward, Nick Symmonds,
Makes It 5 In A Row, KD Goes To London And So Does Duane Solomon Nick Symmonds ran faster than any American ever at Hayward field (1:43.92) to get the dominant win, veteran rival Khadevis Robinson "KD" made his second team, and the Johnny Gray-coached Duane Solomon came up huge with a PR and "A" standard to book his ticket to london. Recap and analysis. *Race
Video
*Nick Symmonds, KD, And Duane Solomon Get Olympic Spots
*USA Today Article On Symmonds And Webb
*Unsponsored Mark Wieczorek PRs And Places Seventh In 800
*Great Pre-Race Article: KD is running with purpose
More Trials: Reuters Recap Of Monday At The Olympic Trials
USATF Sunday
*Latest Sunday Photo
Gallery (Men's 100, Women's/Men's 400m, LJ, More)
Justin Gatlin Wins The 100, Tyson Gay Makes The Team, Jeremy Wariner Goes Home, And Gunshot Victim Bryshon Nellum Makes The Team Nellum is a great story, as he was shot in both legs and has been coming back from that. He did not even make the NCAA final but made the London team. Interview with him
here.
- Men's 400m: Recommended Read Jeremy Wariner's Latest Defeat A Blow To Olympic Career Wariner walked through the interview area without stopping (video here) and that starts the author's article.
- Men's 100m: Justin Gatlin Wins The 100, Tyson Gay And Oregon Native Ryan Bailey Make The Team
- Women's 400m: Sanya Richards-Ross Runs 49.28 To Set Hayward Field Record In 400
- Shot Put: Reese Hoffa Wins Shot To Make His Third Olympic Team
- Discus: High Schooler Shelbi Vaughan Finishes 4th
- Long Jump: UT Football Player Marquise Goodwin Wins Long Jump
- Pole Vault: 32-Year-Old Former Oregon Duck Becky Holliday Finished 2nd To Make Team Behind Jenn Suhr
*Allison Stokke NO HEIGHT At 2012 US Olympic Trials Women's Pole Vault
Sunday Photo Gallery, Saturday (Eaton World Record Here) Friday (10,000m Finals Here)
USATF Saturday
LRC Ashton Eaton Sets WR & Mesmerizes On And Off The Track The former Oregon star
was sensational and got the world record after a big PR in
the 1,500
that sent the Hayward faithful into a frenzy. Afterwards, he sent the media into a frenzy with an amazing press conference.
LRC If You've Got 20 Minutes, Watch This Ashton Eaton Press Conference The world record holder is cerebral and fascinating.
Classy Move Of Year: Curtis Beach Lets Eaton Cross Line First As He Breaks WR - Eaton Wishes He "Could Be As Graceful" As Beach (link fixed) "I just thought it would be better for Ashton to win as he broke the world record."
*Eaton Uses Hayward Field Magic To Help Set World Record
*Ashton Eaton World Record Photo Essay
Olympic Champ Bryan Clay DQed In Hurdles *Clay, After Hurdles DQ: "It's The Worst Feeling Ever"
What About The Sport? LRC This Doesn't Have To
Be The End For Bryan Clay; He Should Do A Decathlon Next Week
Friday At The Trials - Day 1
LRC Galen
Rupp Puts On A Clinic As The Sub-13 Guys Punch Their Tickets To London Galen Rupp won and the three sub-13:00 guys made the team but this race held in a downpour was full of drama. Chris Derrick continued his fine 2012 in fourth. Recap, splits, results, and post-race interviews.
LRC Day 1 Photos Gallery
LRC Men's Post-Race 10,000m Reaction
Day 1 Trials Photo Gallery
London Diamond League Is Friday/Saturday *Start Lists/Results *LRC Previews: *Day 1 *Day 2 *Internet Broadcast Starts 1:30 PM ET (TV Replay 8 & 11 PM ET) *10:00 AM ET Sat *BBC Link
LRC A Fan's Guide To Day 1 Of The 2012 Samsung Diamond League London Track & Field Meet Day 1 is going to be great as it features Mo Farah, Dathan Ritzenhein, virtually every non-Russian/Ethiopian in
the women's 1,500 (including
Morgan Uceny, Jenny Simpson and Hannah England) and a great men's 100 with Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell, 110 hurdles with the three sub-13 guys, and 400 hurdles.
*LRC Day 2 Preview: An Awesome Men's Mile Day 2 isn't quite as good as day 1, but the mile is going to be great with Silas Kiplagat, Nick Willis, Leo Manzano and Bernard Lagat. There also is an 800 with Abubaker Kaki, Matt Centrowitz and
many
of Nick Symmonds' rivals for a bronze medal, and a women's 800 and women's steeple. In other actions, Phillips Idowu will clash with world champ Christian Taylor in the triple, world champ Carmelita Jeter runs in the 100, world champ Sally Pearson runs in the 100 hurdles, which features
the top 7 from 2012, world champ Kirani James is in the 400, and more.
More: Asafa Powell Pulls Out With Groin Injury
*IAAF Preview
*Tyson Gay, Mo Farah And Vivian Cheruiyot Talk In London DL Press Conference So did Liu Xiang, Sally Pearson and Dai Greene.
*Mo Farah On Paris DL 5000: "It makes me think if they can run that I can run faster."
*A Look At UK Athletes Competing Dai Greene, Dwain Chambers, Mo Farah, Phillips Idowu, Hannah England, among others.
International Olympic News
- Saudi Arabia To Send Two Women Competitors To London 2012 One of them is Sarah Attar in the 800. Now hopefully they start implementing opportunities for women in athletics instead of paying it lip service.
*Philip Hersh Says Recent Gender News Isn't Quite As Good As It Seems Still needs to generate change at home. - Ireland's Fionnuala Britton, Who Has Qualified For Olympics In Steeple, 5 And 10, Gets Some Pub On Irish Radio
- Embarrassing Games Tour Bus Gets Lost On First Official Tour Of Olympic Park
100m Sprint Stuff
- Usain Bolt Talking About His 200 Loss To Yohan Blake: "It is not like I was blown away." He pinpointed his "sad" bend as the race's weak point and says he's been focusing more on the 100.
- Blake Says He Wasn't Surprised He Won Since He Knew Bolt Wasn't At 100%
- Justin Gatlin: "I don't think anybody expected me to get this far. Just being able to come back and compete is a victory in itself."
International News
- Yelena Isinbayeva Opens Her Season By Vaulting 4.75m To Win French Meet Over UK's Holly Bleasdale LaShawn Merritt won the 400 in an easy 45.51 as Lolo Jones won the 100 hurdles in a SB 12.74. *Full Results
- IAAF Says Oscar P Can Run Any 4 X 4 Relay Leg We don't think he should be there, but as long as he is, we agree he should be allowed on any leg.
- Pamela Jelimo Looking To Become The Only Woman Ever To Win The Olympic 800 Twice
- Augusto Ramos Soares Is One Of Two Athlete Who Will Represent War Torn And Poverty Stricken Timor-Leste At The London Olympics Soares and Juventina Napoleao will both compete in the marathon.
Anthony Witeman Sets Another World Masters Record In The 1,500 (3:42.02) Earlier this year, he set records in the outdoor mile (3:58.79) and the 800 (1:48.22).
USADA Extends Lance Armstrong's Deadline To Respond To Doping Charges By 30 Days Washington Post
Monaco Diamond League Is July 20th *Start Lists
Monaco Press Conference: Yelena Isinbayeva Says She Will Be Trying To Set The World Lead (Currently Jenn Suhr At 4.81) There were some updates to the start lists which include Nick Symmonds in the 800, Leo Manzano vs. Asbel Kiprop, Silas Kiplagat and Augustine Choge in the 1,500, Evan Jager in the steeple, Jenny Simpson running the 3k, Aries Merritt and David Oliver in the 110 hurdles, Jesse Williams and NCAA champ Erik Kynard in the HJ, and Tianna Madison in the 100.
Runner Doing The 2012 NYC Marathon To Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary Of Losing 300 Pounds Rick Salewske weighed 538 pounds in 2000 and by Nov. 2002 lost 300.
A Biggie We Missed: Tilahun Regassa & Mamitu Daska Win 35th Utica Boilermaker Regassa got revenge for his Peachtree loss to Kenya's Peter Kirui by dominating by 32 seconds. Ian Burrell and Lindsey Scherf were the top Americans but more than 3 and 2 minutes back. Daska has won everything this year - Freihofers, Bolder Boulder, Bloomsday and Bay To Breakers.
Doping News
- 3 Lance Armstrong Associates Don't Respond To Charges - Are Banned For Life Dr. Michele Ferrari, Dr. Luis Garcia del Moral and "Pepe" Marti are out for life.
- Tour de France Rider Remy Di Gregorio Has Been Arrested At His Team Hotel In Middle Of Tour In Connection With A Doping Investigation
- MB: When was the last time a CLEAN rider won the Tour de France *Armstrongs docs banned for life
- Think Doping Is Bad In Cycling? Look At Equestrian: Ireland Replaced One Banned Jumper With Another Who Lost 2004 Olympic Gold For Doping Violation
Random But Interesting (Otherwise They Wouldn't Make The Cut)
- Allegedly Male "Female" Indian Athlete Who Has Been Accused Of Raping A Woman Is Released On Bail
- Does TS Stand For Total ****? No Chance - Tommie Smith: Bolt Can Go Sub-9 If He Can Start Like Yohan Blake
- Saudi Arabia Won't Have Any Female Athletes At Olympics
- Chinese Announcer Wept 4 Years Ago When Liu Xiang Dropped Out Of Olympics
News From Kenya
- Kenyan Coach Is Tight-Lipped About Men's Marathon Squad Preparations
- Kenya Drops Winnie Chebet From Olympic Squad - Replaced 2nd Placer At Trials With 6th Placer Chebet didn't have the "A" so she had to be dropped. Cherono Koech, who is 19 but only ran 2:01.20 this year, is now on the team.
- Geoffrey Mutai, The World's Fastest Marathoner, To Run The BMW Berlin Marathon On 30 September The 2:03:02 man will undoubtedly want the official world record of 2:03:38 after getting the Olympic snub. *Discuss
- Over The Weekend: Geoffrey Mutai Finished Third In Kenyan Half Marathon In 62:13 Victor Kipchirchir got the win in 61:45 over Peter Kimelin (1:01:46).
LRC What Does The Paris 5,000 Mean For Galen Rupp's Medal Chances? Before Friday, only 10 men in history had broken 12:50 for 5,000. Now after on amazing race, 16 guys have done it. Surely this is the end of Galen Rupp's medal chances, right? Wrong. We argue that once one gets over the initial shock of the "6 Guys Under 12:50 In Paris" headline, then one realizes there were plenty of encouraging results in Paris for Rupp. *Discuss
Distance News
- From Kenya: Kenyan Runners Travel To Run 3km Hill - Nearly Get Trapped As Bus Gets Stuck On Ride Back The 1,500 runners ran for 45 minutes and the 10,000 runners ran for 80 minutes, but 10k runner Bidan Karoki says says the tapering has already for begun for the 10k: "We are not pushing ourselves anymore to avoid burnout."
- A Number Of Top Kenyans Will Test Themselves At This Weekend's Two-Day Crystal Palace DL Meet
US-Related: - A Brief Chat With Trials 5,000 Winner Julie Culley
- Georgia's Aaron Evans And LSU's Jamaal James Fail To Hit 1:46.30 "B"' Standard - Won't Go To Olympics
Video: World Champ Murer Says Defending Olympic Champ Isinbayeva Is The Favorite Isinbayeva is going for a third straight Olympic title.
Dai Greene To Captain British Track & Field Team
A Profile Of Diamond League Javelin Leader Vitezslav Vesely
Sprint/Jump News
- FSU's Maurice Mitchell Is Excited To Be In 200 At Olympics For US
- 2008 Olympic LJ SIlver Medallist Godfrey Mokoena Hoping To Peak In London
Chinese Aren't Overlooking Dayron Robles
Sex And Video Games At The Olympic Games
- Inside The Olympic Village: Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, And A Drunk Meeting With The President The 2000 Sydney Games is famous for running out of their 70,000 condoms in a week, but according to one Olympian, that is a practical joke they play on organizers so they have to replace them.
- US Olympians Want To Be Provided A Video Game Room When They Stay In Birmingham Ahead Of The Games What better way to train than to play Mario and Sonic at the London Olympics?
- NYC Considering A Bid For The 2024 Olympic Games Dallas and Chicago are other options.
- Thank God: IOC's Jacques Rogge Rules Out Formula 1 As Olympic Sport "Frankly speaking, the concept we are having is the games are about the competition for the athletes not for equipment."
US News
- Steve Magness Leaves The Nike Oregon Project It seems that he left so he could continue to coach Jackie Areson, who also left the group. He says he eventually wants to start his own group.
- CU Buffs Emma Coburn And Shalaya Kipp Still Can't Believe They're Olympians Coburn, whose granparents went to CU: "I know we're flying there soon, but I just still feel kind of in a daze ... part of me is kind of not back to reality yet."
- Australian Sports Scientist Is Among Those Helping Lolo Jones Try To Catch Up To Sally Pearson Jones is on the upswing, but she still has a ways to go before being able to challenge undefeated Pearson.
Samsung DL Paris *Results *MB Discussion *LRC Winners Photo Gallery
LRC Paris Recap: A Sensational Men's 5,000, A Troubling Women's 1,500, And David Rudisha's 1:41 Highlight Fans of Galen Rupp, Bernard Lagat,
Kenenisa Bekele, Jenny Simpson
and Morgan Uceny probably had a hard time watching this meet as the results of the men's 5,000 and women's 1,500 were stunning to stay the least. Plus Tyson Gay vs. Justin Gatlin. Read all about it. *Discuss
*Results (video highlights for US visitiors in player on right)
*LRC Winners Photo Gallery
*Gaining Confidence After Paris Win, Tyson Gay Says Men's 100 "Is Open For The Games"
*Athletics Weekly Full Meet Recap Here *IAAF *Reuters
*World Champ Dai Greene PRs In Hurdles But Loses To Javier Culson
*Vanity Fair: David Rudisha: The Best Olympic Track Star You've Never Heard Of
*MB 12:46.81 *Bekele runs 12:55 on a bad day. What are Rupp and Farah thinking? *So what does the 5K results mean? No Gold for Rupp? *Galen
Rupp Would Have Been 11th In Paris 5000m *Did that Paris 5k set any records for place? *Kenenisa Says He Is Not Defending His 5000m Title *Paris Meet All DOPED UP *W1500m A JOKE: 1 and 2 served doping
bans *The
Fastest 5000m In The Last 2 Years Will Be Run In Paris Friday
3 Interesting Reads From Africa
- Asbel Kiprop Says Training Is Going Well, That Kenyan Men Can Sweep 1,500 At Olympics "If you consider the fact that our (3) times are the fastest in the world (in 2012) then you can easily see that this is the best team currently. If we make it to the final all of us then we will be the men to beat."
- 2008 Olympic 800 Champ Says Rudisha Will Win This Year - Also Says Winning Olympics Is Mental
- South African Paper Compares Caster Semenya To Zola Budd At first, we didn't see the connection, but both were under enormous pressure as teenagers. Budd was just 18 at the 1984 Games when Slaney went down, which is how old Semenya was when she won gold in 2009.
More News From Africa: - Oscar P Runs 46.28
- Carl Lewis, Kelly Holmes And 800 Olympic Champ Wilfred Bungei To Do Olympic TV Broadcasts For Supersport (Africa's Equivalent Of ESPN) Scroll down.
Sweden Meet
MB: Abubaker Kaki (1:43.69), Ryan Gregson (3:39.89) Surface For 1st Time Since Early June - Craig Miller/Bobby Curtis DNF
*Menjo Runs 13:16 In Sweden
Random But Somewhat Interesting
- Summary Of 10 Noakes' 448 Page Book On Dehydration - Drink To Thirst Apparently, your performance doesn't suffer after a 2% hydration loss, as Haile Gebrselassie lost close to 10% of his body weight during his WR.
- Iowa Man Runs Around Lake Michigan In 40 Days & Raises $32,000 He ran 26 miles every day. Crazy.
- Sally Kipyego Gets Some Press In Kenya On Vivian Cheruyiot: "I think Vivian is a great athlete and I would like to keep it at just that."
- NZ Paper: Does Oscar P Have An Unfair Advantage? Our answer: Clearly yes, but he's still an inspiration.
- Olympic Marathoner Fujiwara Leaves For Altitude Training In Switzerland
- Day 4 Russian Recap: 3 Women Break 4:00
- South African Decathlete Willem Coertzen Named To Olympic Team Somehow SA in its brilliance had left the "A" qualifier off of their provisional team.
British Olympic Selection Controversy
- On Day She's Elevated To European Champion (Thanks To A Doping Positive), Jenny Meadows Is Left Off British Olympic Team The 2009 WC bronze winner at 800, Meadows, is a class act as she won't appeal the decision to put the up and comer Lynsey Sharp, who has only the "B" standard on the team. Five "A"s will be left at home.
- Three With "A" - Marilyn Okoro, Emma Jackson And Jemma Simpson - All Appeal We agree that GBR's best chance of making the final is to put three people out there instead of 1. Three x .10 is greater than 1 at .20.
- Ian Stewart Defends UK Athleitcs 800 Selection
- Athletics Weekly On Sharp Selection (Also Includes List Of British Olympic Track Team)
- Van Commenee Has No Idea If Phillips Idowu Is Recoverd From Pre Classic Injury, As They Don't Speak
- The French Are Leaving Home A Big Name As Well
- France's Olympic 1,500 Metres Bronze Medallist Mehdi Baala Is Out With Foot Injury
- Irish Can Tweet: Sonia O'Sullivan Won't Ban Irish Athletes From Tweeting But She Will Talk To Them About It She seems most concerned with them getting abused by followers if they do poorly.
Doping News From Cycling
- Dutch Newspaper: Levi Leipheimer, George Hincapie, David Zabriskie, Christian Vande Velde And Jonathan Vaughters All Implicate Lance
- Lance Fires Back - This Is An Unfair Vendetta Against Me And "Selective" Prosecution You bet it is. In organized crime, people go after the boss, not the underlings."
- USADA Head: Intimdation Of Witnesses Will Not Be Tolerated
- MB: Armstrong is about to be screwed
- Doping Report - Cyclers Cheat The Most, Badminton Players The Least 3.7% of all cycling tests result in a positive. Wow.
Hopefully In Unrelated News - The Russian Champs Have Been Going On *Full Results - Day 4 Russian Recap: 3 Women Break 4:00
- IAAF Recap Of Day 3 49.16 was the biggie.
- RussianChamps - World Champs Marya Savinova (1:57.42 800) &Yulia Zaripova (9:09.99) Show Up & Impress Even Though They Didn't Need To All Daegu WChamps were automatically on the Olympic team but these two Russian ladies showed up and kicked butt anyway.
- Sanya Richards-Ross, You'd Better Be Ready: Russian Women Run 49.16 And 49.28 In 400 At Russian Champs 4th place was 50.00. Antonina Krivoshapka had run 49.29 back in 2009 before she won WC bronze (she was 5th last year).
- Russia's LJer Sergey Morgunov Will Go To WJrs As Jr. World Record Holder & 2012 World Leader At 8.61m The meet is July 5-10. *World Junior Facts & Figures
Usain Bolt Is Out (Temporarily)
LRC After Two Losses At Jamaican Champs, Usain Bolt's Glen Mills Pulls Him From Monaco Diamond League Meet On July 20th Mills says at the Jamaican champs Bolt had a "slight problem" and that he's pulling track's biggest star from the Monaco meet to "give him sufficient time for treatment and time to train and prepare for the Olympic Games in London." We're not sure if the slight problem was an injury or just the losses, but Bolt says he'll be ready for the Olympics: "I will be in London to defend my titles in the 100, 200 and 4 x 100 metres."
Peachtree *Results *Race Website
Peter Kirui Wins Peachtree As Defending Champ Sammy Kitwara Finishes 8th Kiriui won a close race over Micah Kogo and Matthew Kisorio. Bobby Mack was 13th. Mamitu Daska won the women's race.
Blade Runner Going To London: Oscar P Named To SA Team In Open 400 And 4 X 4 Relay Despite Not Hitting A Second "A" Standard
Amateur Hour Comes To An End
Rec. Read: Tim Layden's Final Column On The Non-Runoff After a tiny bit of help from the initial LRC interview
with
timer Roger Jennings that kicked this off
in some ways, Layden owned this story. Another excellent, in-depth read. Three cheers for Tim Layden's coverage. Layden reveals the timer Roger Jennings has only now been overruled twice in his life. Layden has criticism for Max Siegel and Stephanie Hightower who "enacted a stunning display of non-leadership throughout the week."
*Tarmoh
Wouldn't Have Much Of A Legal Case If She Filed Suit, Says Expert
More General Post-Trials: A Look At First-Time Olympians, Including 32-Year-Old Carmelita Jeter USA Today "Historically, most people weren't able to go to a second or third Games because they had to put food on the table."
*A Look At US Team: Dix, Clay, Wariner, Jackson, Oliver Staying Home
*Arizona's Brigetta Barrett Now A Medal Threat For The US In The High Jump
Swimming: 45-Year-Old Swimmer Dana Torres Misses Olympics By .10
Down Goes Bolt #2: Blake 19.80 Over Bolt 19.83 Bolt had the lead in this one and ran horribly the last 100. Video here.
*Bolt: "It is not like I was blown away. I know what I need to do to get it right."
On The Boards: BOLT IS DONE!!!!
*Jamaica 200m Trials
*Blake wins again!
Sunday Trials Non-Distance *Results
LRC Allyson Felix 21.69!!!, Aries Merritt 12.93 Allyson Felix ran the fastest time in the world in 14 years in a brilliant performance. Merritt picked the right occasion for the first sub-13 clocking of his life. Jason
Richardson went under 13 for the first time in the semis and backed it up with a 12.98 in the final. Jeff Porter did a superman dive to make the team in a dramatic effort with PRs in the semis and final. David Oliver did not make the team. Amy Acuff became the 6th 5-time track Olympian, Christian Taylor won and Walter Davis retired.
*Video Of Hurdles *Video Of 200
More Saturday:
- High Jump: Chaunte Lowe Wins High Jump, Amy Acuff Becomes 6th 5-Time Track Olympian
*15-Year-Old High School Sophomore Gets 5th In Olympic Trials HJ - Hurdles: Jeff Porter's Late Dad's Dream Helps Carry Him To London
*Jason Richardson Celebrates Sub-13 With A New Tattoo - 200: Tim Layden: Despite Controversy, Felix Proves Her Elite Status In The 200 Felix and Tarmoh's coach, Bob Kersee, said that Monday would definitely be too early for a 100 race-off.
*Ken Goe Explains Where They're At With The 100m Tie Fiasco USATF, coach and athletes met last night so there should be news soon. Neither athlete hinted at much in yesterday's interviews: *Tarmoh Interview *Felix At Press Conference - Triple Jump: Christian Taylor, Will Claye Dominate Triple Jump, Walter Davis Gets 3rd And Retires Right After
- Heptathlon: Hyleas Fountain Wins, Chantae McMillan PRs To Hit "A" Standard
Eugene For 2016? - NY Times Looks At Whether Eugene Should Keep Hosting Trials
Article claims Asics is a sponsor of the Trials which is news to us. "No one wants to get Nike upset because they effectively fund USA Track & Field, so they've painted themselves into a corner." - James Dunaway
On The Boards: Allyson Felix just dropped the hammer
*Wake Up Letsrun! - Stop sleeping on the women's 200m
LRC
Steeple Recap: Coburn Cruises, Kipp Gets "A" To Join Franek In London (link updated with article) The last 3 NCAA champions in this event secured the Olympic spots for the US.
LRC Emma Coburn Gets Emotional, Shalaya Kipp, Bridget Franek, Delilah DiCrescenzo Olympic Trials Interviews Delilah: "Not everyone is meant to be an Olympian."
*MB: 1,500, 5,000 & steeple play by plays - women and men
*CU's Emma Coburn, Shalaya Kipp Book Tickets To London In Steeple Denver Post
*Patience Pays Off For Bridget Franek As She Makes Olympic Team Oregonian
LRC Gabriele Anderson DQed, Alice Schmidt Put Into Final Anderson was a clear second in her semifinal but has been DQed with an appeal to be held in the morning.
Video Of Alleged Foul It does not look like a foul to us. If a foul was committed, it seems logical the athlete fouled should be put in the final as well. If it's not big enough to put Mortimer in the final, how can it DQ Anderson?
*RRW Article On DQ
More Trials:
- Justin Gatlin And Dix Pull Out Of 200
- RG3: "If I wake up one day and it's 2016 and I say I want to go run the hurdles again, I can do that."
- After Slow Start, Jill Camarena-Williams Wins Shot
- Alberto Talks About Galen's Wins
- Galen Met Uncle Phil After Winning Trials
Three Distance Finals Take Place Thursday *Oregonian Day 7 Photos
M 5,000: LRC Lucky 13 - Galen Rupp Snaps Winless Streak In Style - 52.54 Last Lap Beats Bernard Lagat & Steve Prefontaine's Meet Record Galen Rupp entered
the Olympic Trials 0 for 12 against Bernard Lagat during his lifetime but he left 1 for 13 and boy was it impressive. Not only did he win, but Rupp let it came down to the last 400 and then outkicked the 2nd-fastest man ever at 1,500. His last 400 was faster than what won Mo Farah World Championships gold last year.
M Steeple: LRC Evan Jager Wins With Ease As Three First-Time Olympians Punch Their Tickets To London Jager, Cabral, Alcorn. And a very happy 4th placer - former 4:22
HSer Donald
Cowart.
*LRC Steeplechase Interviews
*Oregonian Recap Of Jager's Tongue-Wagging, Fist-Pumping Win
- 400: University Of Illinois' NCAA Champ Ashley Spencer Skipped The Trials To Focus On World Juniors With a 50.95 PR, she had a decent shot at making the team (at least on the relay). Young athletes all assume they'll have more chances 4 years from now, but with injuries it doesn't always work out. But if you make it, then "Once you're an Olympian you're always an Olympian."
- Webb Speaks: Alan Webb On His Past Brilliance: "I sometimes wonder how I did it myself." "Maybe I inspired everybody too much, like I created a monster, and now I have to run against these guys."
More Olympic Trials Monday Distance
LRC Montano Hangs On, Gall Comes On, Schmidt Sneaks In, And Beckwith Has A 4-Year Wait Alysia Montano won as expected, but this one was close. 5 women were in contention for 3 Olympic spots and Molly Beckwith was the unlucky 4th place loser in a dramatic final 20 meters. *Race Video
800m Final Photos (Click Below For Gallery)
24 Hours Of Amateur Hour At USATF Comes To An End (In Case You Missed LRC Featured On The Homepage Of Deadspin)
USATF Tie-Breaking Procedures Announced A run-off will break all ties unless BOTH athletes agree to a coinflip. We can't wait to see a run-off in a 10,000m.
Employee #1.1 Editorial: A Rule Still With A Million Loopholes USATF needs a rule that will solve all situations; this one does not.
Eugene Saturday *LRC Trials YouTube Channel
LRC The Inside Story Of How Jeneba Tarmoh First Saw The 100m Finish Photo On The LetsRun.com Laptop Roughly 3 Hours After The Race
Carmelita
Jeter
won
the 100m, but the story was the battle for the third spot between training partners Jeneba Tarmoh and Allyson Felix. At first,
Tarmoh was announced in third by .001 but then after
the stands had emptied, a dead
heat was announced. We thought we were the only ones not knowing what was going on, until next thing we knew Tarmoh was looking at the finish photo on Wejo's laptop (pic on right).
LRC An Exclusive Interview With The Man Responsible For Reading The Allyson Felix 100m Finish Picture LetsRun.com exclusively caught up Roger Jennings, the man whose job it is to
determine who
finished third and who got fourth, and the timing whiz explained how it was determined there was a dead heat. Plus we do a little bit of research and determine that even though USATF has said there
is no protocol for breaking a tie, that the USATF rule book does in fact envision such a scenario and has a solution - an old-fashioned drawing of lots!!!
LRC Lolo Jones' Third Place Steals The Show In The Olympic Trials Hurdles Final Lolo turned around her season in 24 hours after a "reality meltdown" following round one. She said, "I woke up today and did not
think I would make the team. I was fighting a constant head battle to get through this. I had my sports psychologist on speed dial 1, my pastor on speed dial 2, and my mom on speed dial 3 ..."
Shot Put Stunner: LRC 5-Time World/Olympic Silver Medallist & One-Time World Champ Adam Nelson Misses Final, Gives Emotional Presser And Advice For Us All Nelson may still compete but had great advice for us all: "When you do it the right way and you do it every single day, the hard work pays off time and time again." Full video and recap.
Friday's 10,000m At The Track Trials *LRC Day 1 Photos Gallery *LRC YouTube Channel *Day 1 Photos *Check Prediction Contest Scores *LRC Day-By-Day Coverage
LRC Women's 10,000m Amy Hastings Outkicks Suprising Natosha Rogers And Shalane Flanagan For Redemption This race had no drama for the Olympic spots the final mile but it was full of drama. Lisa Uhl's shoe came untied, Natosha Rogers fell and then got up and in the fourth 10k of her life beat Olympic medallist Shalane Flanagan. The laurel wreath went to Amy Hastings, the
fourth
place finisher at the Marathon Trials.
*LRC 10,000m Photos
*Post-Race Reaction
Day 2 Photo Gallery (Eaton World Record)
LRC Hammer Time Kicks Off 2012 Olympic Trials Successfully And The First LetsRun.com Hammer Interview Ever With The Guy In The Green T-Shirt Best hammer throw we've ever seen. Plus the exclusive first-ever LetsRun.com hammer interview with the guy (Chris Cralle) who finished second in a plain green T-shirt.
*Kibwe Johnson And Amber Campbell Win Hammer Throws To Kick Off Olympic Trials In Portland
World Junior Champs Start Tuesday *Schedule/Results *Nice On-Site Coverage By NSSF *Live Video Stream *Meet Central With Interviews, Photos, Event-By-Event Recaps
- Day 3: Ajee Wilson Wins 800 in 2:00.91, Brianna Nerud Breaks American Junior Steeple Record (10:00.72) for 5th Kenya's 15-yr old Daisy Jepkemei won the steeple in 9:47.22. Qatar's Hamza Driouch won the 1500m (3:39.04).
- UK's Jessica Judd Was 2nd In The 800 To Wilson
- USATF Recap Of Day 3 Qualifying Rounds: 100m silver medalist Aaron Ernest & 200 WJ leader Tyreek Hill through easily in 200 rounds.
- USATF Day 3 Finals Recap *IAAF Day 3 PM Report *Morning Report
- Cuba's 110 World Junior Champ Yordan O'Farrill Set To Be The Next Dayron Robles
- 11 Nigerian Athletes Finally Secure Visas To Enter Spain And Compete 13 athletes were still left behind and Nigeria is seeking an explanation of why they were denied in the first place.
- Irish Teenager Joanna Mills Involved In Irish 4x4 Controversy Performs Well In 400H * *Explanation on controversy here.
- Day 2: IAAF Profile Decathlon Champ Gunnar Nixon "I almost came into the tears the last 20 metres because I knew I had won it. No lows, no bad events in this meet, I’m so happy."
- Tyson Gay Praises Adam Gemili Saying He Thinks He'll Be "One Of The Greatest Sprinters Of All Time" Gay adds he wants gold in London and seems to hide a bit of
resentment at Justin Gatlin.
*Could Adam Gemili Become The First Sub-10 Second Junior?
*GemiliIs 4th GB Sprinter In Past 14-Yrs To Win World Junior 100, But None Of His Predecessors Have Gone On To Equal Senior Success
*Teammate Says Gemili Was Sometimes "Too Quick" For Soccer More British praise here. - Gunnar Nixon Wins Decathlon With New American Junior Record
- USATF Day 2 Qualifying Recap: Ajee Wilson Eases To 2nd In Her Heat To Make Final
- Adam Gemili Sets Championship Record As He Wins 100 In 10.05 LSU freshman Aaron Ernest was 2nd and Jamaica's Odean Skeen took bronze.
- Ethiopia's Buze Diriba Wins 5,000 In Photo Finish Over Her Training Partner Ruti Aga She ran 15:32.94 to Aga's 15:32.95. Cayla Hatton was 4th place in the 5k with 15:50.32 (second-fastest ever by a high schooler and seventh-best all-time among American juniors). Oregon Allie Woodward was 8th.
- NZ's Jacko Gill Is The Shot Put Champ With A Championship Record Of 22.20m He was disappointed he didn't get David Storl's World Junior record of 22.73m, but he's only 17, so he still has time.
- IAAF Day 2 PM Report Bahamas' Anthonique Strachan becoming won the 100 in 11.20.
- Q&A With Swedish PVer Angelica Bengtsson, Who Will Defend Her Gold Medal From 2010
- IAAF Day 2 AM Report
- Day 1 PM: Mercy Chebwogen Wins Close World Junior 3,000 Gold For Kenya In 9:08.88 Was a close race with runner-up Ethiopian Hiwot Gebrekidan in 9:09.27 and GB's Emelia Gorecka 9:09.43.
- USATF: Day 1 PM World Juniors Recap: Aisling Cuffe (9:20.00) Finishes 6th - Nixon Leads Decathlon
- IAAF Day 1 PM Recap: Ethiopia's Yegrem Demelash Wins 10k By Beating Kenya's 26:55 Guy Geoffrey Kirui Peaking when it matters most is key. Kirui was 5th in the Kenyan Trials in Eugene.
*10k Champ Yigrem Demelash Looks Very Much Like A Young Haile G - Germany's Shanice Craft Comes In With 16.16 PR - Leaves With 17.15 PR And Gold Medal (Her Dad Is American)
- Ajee Wilson Gets An IAAF Profile - XC Has Made Her Stronger
- Rec Read: Argentinian Javelin Stud Braian Toledo Hoping To Throw Way Out Of Poverty
- Day 1 AM: Girls HS Steeple Record Falls (10:08.15), Danielle Aragon & Ajee Wilson Advance, Izaic Yorks & A. Mudd Go Home *IAAF Day 1 AM Recap
- Britain's European Jr. XC Champ Emelia Gorecka Wins 3,000 Bronze (9:09.43)
- Nigerians Become Irate When Spanish Refuse To Give Them Visas
- DyeStat World Junior Champs Meet Central
- Brits Are Hoping 10.08 Guy Adam Gemili Will Become 4th Brit To Win World Jr. 100m Gold For some reason, we think this guy who also is going to the Olympics is overhyped and we'll give $100 to the charity of his choice if he wins World Jr. gold in the individual 100m.
6 Guys Break 12:50
Paris DL Photo Gallery (Click Here Or Below)
US-Related Distance News
- Good News Or Ridiculous? Maybe Both Town Of Mammoth Lakes Goes Bankrupt But Track For Pros In Track Club Will Still Be Built
*More On Bankruptcy - Andy Bayer Not Going Pro
- Gary Cohen's Lengthy Wesley Korir Q&A Wesley spent over an hour talking in depth about the 2012 Boston Marathon, the upcoming Chicago Marathon, the Kenyan Kids Foundation, how his faith, wife & Ryan Hall have helped him, influence of Sammy Wanjiru, growing up in Kenya, coming to the US, collegiate racing and his coaches, training mileage, key workouts, future goals and "Inside Stuff" like his first running memory and most embarrassing moment.
Other US News
- 2024: USOC Says It Will Not Bid For 2022 Winter Olympics To Focus On Bids For 2024 And 2026 New York Times
- Does US T&F Need A Bolt-Like Star To Be Popular?
- Legendary Track Coach Bill Carson Passes Away He coached LaShawn Merritt in college.
Sprint News
- Mo Greene Gives His Analysis Of Usain Bolt Losing
- British Amputee Sprinter Jonnie Peacock Runs 10.85 100m World Record
- Charles van Commenee Says He Will Pick British Olympic Track Team But That There Will Be Appeals
Blake Beats Bolt X 2 In 200
Leo The Lion After Winning The Trials
Morgan Uceny After Winning Her First Trials
Latest Euro/Arican Champs News (More Below)
Euros: High Jumper Robbie Grabarz And Hurdler Rhys Williams Win Gold For Britain
*800: Russia's Yelena Arzhakova Wins Gold Over Britain's Lynsey Sharp
*800 Men: Yuriy Borzakovskiy Wins European Title In 1:48.61
Africa: Gabon's Ruddy Zang Milam Runs 11.16 At African Champs
*Oscar P Runs 45.52 For African Silver, But Not Good Enough To Qualify For Olympics
Kenyan Athletes Opposed To Plan To Ship Them To Training Camp In Bristol, England On July 3
*Look Out, Galen: Wilson Kiprop Wants To Win 10,000m Gold In Honor Of His Deceased Mom
Emma Coburn Gets Emotional With Teammate Shalaya Kipp After Making Olympics
The Race Of The Trials So Far: Julia Lucas' Agony Of Defeat (Race Video Here, More 5k W Interviews Here, Men 5k Here, Men Steeple Here)
News From The Rest Of The World
Jamaican: Jamaican 100m Heats: Yohan Blake 10.0, Usain Bolt 10.06, Asafa Powell 10.19 *Live
Stream Here *Schedule
European Champs: *Full Results
*Christophe Lemaitre's 10.06 Defeats Jimmy Vicaut's 10.09 To Win Europeans
*Russia's Olga Golovkina Wins 5,000m
*Ivet Lalova Wins European 100m
She's
the one who blew Employee #1 a kiss at Worlds.
*After
Pulling Out Of Europeans, Jenny Meadows Hopes To Be Selected For London
Without Running A Race In 2012 (She Ran A 2:00.8 Time Trial)
*British Olympic 5,000m Spot To Come Down To Steph Twell And Julia Bleasdale
*Mo Farah Closes In 53 Seconds (1:55 Last 800) To Win Euros 5,000 In 13:29 Germany's Arne Gabius was 2nd in 13:31. *Play-By-Play
Kenya: Kenyan Gold Medalists Will Be Awarded $20,588 Paid Out By Kenyan Olympic Committee And Government
*Kenyan President Meets With Olympic Athletes David Rudisha has been named team Captain.
Galen Rupp After Beating Lagat (More 5,000m Here)
Evan Jager After Making His First Olympic Team
Andrew Wheating And Russell Brown After Round 1 Of 1,500
Non-Trials US News
- Ritz To Run 2012 BOA Chicago Marathon
- Born After 1984? Learn All About Michael Johnson's 200/400 Double In Atlanta And Most Importantly His Golden Nike Spikes "It might have been a little bit bragadocious, but you know what? He of all people, probably more than anybody in history, could back it up."
Alan Webb's 2012 Olympic Dream Is Over (More On This Here (Link Fixed)). More Trials Videos Here
Tyler Mulder Showing The Emotion Of The Trials
BAA 10k 2012 BAA 10k Results
Geoffrey Mutai Runs 27:29 In Boston, Kim Smith Wins
We think Sam Chelanga still has a good chance to win $100,000 despite being crushed by nearly a minute.
Kenyan Trials *Mid-D/Distance Results
- King David Rudisha Runs 1:42.12 Altitude WR To Put Kenyan Crowd Into A Frenzy King David wasn't the only one to excite the crowd as even bigger cheers went
to Ezekiel Kemboi, who set the crowd afire when he pulled up to eventual steeple winner Brimin Kipruto and seemingly motioned to let him win with 50m to go before re-enacting his famous "Daegu jig" at the finish. Asbel Kiprop barely qualified (3rd) as Olympic champ Nancy Lagat, Linet Masai
and Paul Kipsiele Koech fell by the wayside.
*Kemboi's Dance Gets More Cheers Than Rudisha's Win
*MB: Rudisha's 1:42.12 NEW ALTITUDE WR!!! Brimin Kipruto 8:11 steeplechase and Isaiah Koech 13:09 as well, if this isn't a troll.
*MB: Kiprop 3rd: "It's a good thing that I did not win the Trials since the pressure that comes with it is too much." - AP Recap: Rudisha, Jelimo And Cheruiyot Win
LRC Exclusive: Timer Explains The Allyson Felix Tie
Matt Taylor Speaks #2
LRC Redefine Running: Who's In Charge Of "The Sport" (link fixed) Last week Matt Taylor, the guy behind ChasingTradition, ChasingKimbia, ChasingGlory, and an upcoming Usain Bolt video game, told you running was dying. This week he tells you it's thriving. He explains the inconsistency. While the activity of running is thriving, the sport is dead with the mainstream sports fan. In the internet era, diehards get their fix, while Joe Sports-Fan has no idea who Matt Centrowitz is. How do we fix this?