Top Weekend Indoor Action *All Weekend NCAA Action

• Results: PSD Bank Meeting Dusseldorf Highlights included Kenya’s Bethwel Birgen going from rabbitting Rupp last week to winning the 1,500 (3:39.05) over Nixon Chepseba and Silas Kiplagat (3rd and 4th). Erik Sowinski was 4th in the 800 (1:46.84) where Poland’s Adam Kszcot won in 1:45.42 over GB’s Andrew Osagie. Caleb Ndiku won the 3K in 7:38 over Albert Rop; Augustine Choge was 5th and Edwin Soi 7th. Hellen Obiri won the women’s 1,500 in 4:07.01.
• 2014 UW Dempsy Invitational Heat Sheets: Chris Solinsky Vs. Lawi Lalang In Men’s 3,000Evan Jager, German Fernandez, Dan Huling and Alan Webb (Webb also in 800) are in the mile. High schooler Alexa Efraimson, Kate Grace, Emma Bates and Lauren Fleshman (also listed in mile) lead the women’s 3k. Women’s 5K has Betsy Saina, Bates, Megan Goethals and Alexi Pappas.
• Solid Mid-D Races On Tap For Saturday’s Karlsruhe Indoor Meet: Bernard Lagat Vs. Edwin Soi, Augustine Choge And Yenew Alamirew Over 3,000m Steepler Conseslus Kipruto is also in the field. Bahrain’s former 1,500m World champ Maryam Jamal is in the women’s 3K. SA World 1,500 bronze medalist Johan Cronje takes on Nixon Chepseba in the 1,500. Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba is in the women’s 1,500.
• Next Weekend: Olympic 5,000m Silver Medalist Dejen Gebremeskel, Cam Levins And Garrett Heath Added To Loaded 3K Field For Next Week’s New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Field includes Hagos Gebrhiwet, Sam Chelanga, Ryan Hill and Andrew Bumbalough. Also announced: Jenny Simpson, Sally Kipyego and Jordan Hasay in the 2-mile, Lopez Lomong in the mile, Ajee Wilson vs. Mary Cain in the 1,000. *Full Start Lists

Recommended Read:A Look Back At The 1974 Commonwealth Games 1,500, Considered By Many One Of The Greatest Middle-Distance Races Of All Times The athletes themselves tell the story of the race where Tanzania’s Filbert Bayi broke Jim Ryun‘s WR in a race that included distance legends John Walker, Rod Dixon and Brendan Foster.

• Federal Prosecutors Will Seek Death Penalty For Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev A CNN senior legal analyst said, “This is a case, that, if you believe in the death penalty, seems to cry out for the death penalty.”
• Hundreds Of Charity Runners Will Run Boston In Tribute To Bombing Victims The charitable foundation started by the parents of 8-year-old victim Martin Richard had more than 250 people in 35 states and several countries submit 11-page applications.

• Press Conference Highlights From Japan’s Retiring 25-Year-Old Moscow 10,000 5th Placer Hitomi Niiya Talking about her early retirement, she said plantar fasciitis diagnosis was her main reason and said, “When I found out the situation with my foot I was so relieved. At that moment I thought, ‘Now I can get down off this stage and finally quit this sport.'”
• Japanese High School Girls’ Head Coach Suspended For Using Corporal Punishment
• Weekend Preview: 2:08 Man Kazuhiro Maeda Going For Yuki Kawauchi’s 2:08:15 CR At Beppu-Oita Marathon At the Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon Martin Mathathi faces Aussi Collis Birmingham and Ethiopia’s 2:04:48 marathoner Yemane Tsegaye.
• Elite Fields Release For Feb. 9th Nobeoka Nishi Nippon Marathon

2016 Trials Go To LA *2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials Coverage

RRWLos Angeles To Host 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials

*Meb Keflezighi’s Comments On LA’s Bid Victory
*Cincinnati Still Wants To Bid For Olympic Marathon Trials In Future
*LA Times: Move “… could boost the city’s efforts to bring the Summer Games back here in 2024.”

Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial To Have Its Own 24-Hour TV Channel In South Africa The channel will launch on March 2, the day before Pistorius goes on trial for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last February.

Today In Dusseldorf

IAAF Profile On World 800 Bronze Medalist And 3:30 1,500 Man Ayanleh Souleiman, Who’s Running The 3k In Dusseldorf Today Souleiman doubled at Worlds and thinks he would have won the 1,500 if he hadn’t run the 800 (he didn’t make the 1,500 final). He’s training partners with Olympic 1,500 champ Taofik Makhloufi and two-time World Indoor 800 champ Abubaker Kaki.
*PSD Bank Meeting In Dusseldorf Today: Germany’s PV World Champ Raphael Holzdeppe Vs. Olympic Silver Medalist Bjorn Otto Poland’s double European Indoor champ Adam Kszczot will defend his title in the 800.

Oregonian’s Ken Goe Asks: One question for the critics: if not Eugene, where? This is in response to several articles (including Rojo‘s “Eugene Fatigue: It’s Not In The Sport’s Best Interest To Have Every Big Track Meet In Eugene”) Eugene’s stranglehold on big track events in the US.

European Stuff: Will The World Finally See A New Pole Vault WR?

• After Going 6.04m Last Weekend, Renaud Lavillenie Eyeing Sergey Bubka World Indoor PV Record
• Laura Muir Is Excited Ahead Of World Indoors After Setting A Huge Indoor 800 PR To Break The Scottish Record With 2:00 The 20-year-old’s previous best during indoors was only 2:08, although she had ran 2:00 outdoors.
• UK Athletics CEO Niels De Vos Reacts To Amateur Athletic Association’s Statement Criticizing UKA AAA spoke out against De Vos’ salary bonus, but De Vos said their criticisms were “ill-informed.” We’ve already pointed out how De Vos is underpaid compared to others in his position.
• UK’s Defending Commonwealth Games Heptathlon Champion Coming Out Of Retirement To Defend Her Title She just “retired” back in September, but says that Jessica Ennis taking the year off with pregnancy was a “game changer.” Hazel was only 27th at the London Olympics.
• British Magazine To Reprint Cover Because Of Similarity To Boston Bombing Tribute Cover

Two For TwoLRC Galen Rupp Gets Back The American Two-Mile Record, Runs 8:07.41 In BostonBernard Lagat‘s 8:09.49 and Rupp’s previous 8:09.72 AR are history as he went for it big time tonight. Rupp took a crack at Kenenisa Bekele‘s 8:04 WR as he was at 4:59 at 2k but faded a bit at the end.

*LRC Photo Gallery
*LRCInterviews With Galen Rupp And Alberto Salazar After Rupp’s Record Run Both seem very excited for his mile AR attempt in 3 weeks.
*LRCGalen Rupp’s 8:07.41 Two Mile Record Broken Down – Lap-By-Lap Splits

*MB:Galen finished post AR workout with 4:01.6
*MB:Official Galen Rupp 2 Mile Prediction & Race Talk/Split Thread

• Armory: RRW Recap New Balance Games At The Armory: Kim Conley, Lee Emanuel, Duane Solomon And Ajee Wilson All Get Wins*Results*LRCPhoto Gallery
• MB:Lee Emanuel and Garrett Heath Both Run 3:54 at Armory Heath showed the form he used to beat Bekele and Kiprop but Emanuel got the win.
  *Race Video: Lee Emanuel
  *Down The Backstretch Q&A With Heath On Training And Getting Started With Brooks Heath said he was happy with his 3:54 even though he just lost to Emanuel, who he said “ran smart.”
• MB:Kim Conley 4:24.54 for the full mile at the NB Games A big PR for the Olympic 5,000 runner.
  *Video Interview With Conley Conley laughed and said her first thought when she finished and looked at the clock was, “Oh, I didn’t beat Mary.”
• MB: Duane Solomon FTW over Eric Sowinski in 1:16.67 – Webb third in 1:17.79
• MB:Ajee’ Wilson wins 600 in 1:28.27 – Stephanie Garcia wins 1 mile steeple in 4:48.97
• Olympic Silver Medalist Will Claye Wins TJ In Armory With Record Mark Of 55 Feet, 11 Inches
• DyeStat NB Games High School Recap
  *MileSplit HS Highlights: Two New US #1s With 9:08 2-Mile (Elijah Armstrong) And 1:52 800 (Ricky Faure)

LRCMary Cain Just Misses World Indoor Junior Mile Mark By .01 - Sets New American Junior Mark Of 4:24.11