LRCMark Wetmore Talks About Emma Coburn's Big Win, Jenny Simpson's Four-Flat And What The Future Holds For Ben Saarel

Doping News: Xenon Gas Banned

• Xenon And Argon Gas Officially Added To Banned Substance List By WADA After Study Finds It Boosts Performance Claims have been made that Russian athletes have been using it from Athens 2004 through the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.
• Seb Coe Wants IAAF To Investigate Tyson Gay’s Doping Ban And Hear What “Significant Assistance” He Provided USADA Coe: “This is not just about athletes proving or testing positive, and then once they’ve tested positive, starting to talk and help agencies.”

Oscar Pistorius Will Start Mental Evaluation Next Week As The Trial Will Be Postponed Until June 30th He’ll be treated as an outpatient at a mental health institution and be evaluated by a panel of experts.

More Weekend Pro Action

• Bupa Great Run:London Winner K Bekele Blows Wison Kipsang’s Doors Off In Final 500, T. Dibaba Wins In 31:09 Bekele won by 5 seconds in 28:23 and then said he isn’t sharp enough for the Prefontaine 10,000.
• Ponce GP:Results: Duane Solomon (1:44.79) Beats Vazquez, Abda, Jock, Loxsom, Torrence, Wieczorek – Gabriele Grunewald Wins The 3k
  *Recap: LaShawn Merritt Runs World-Leading 44.14; Ibarguen Wins 13th Straight TJ With 14.87m
• 13.1:Bedan Karoki Upsets Zersenay Tadese At Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon Tadese ran 61:34 for second.

Conference Champs *Conference Champs Central

• Big 12: *Results*LRCCourtney Okolo, Texas Sophomore, Sets New NCAA 400 Record Of 50.03 At Big 12 Meet *MB:Trayvon Bromell goes 9.77 windy at Big 12s!!!The sprint action was absurd.
  *Texas Tech Men And Kithuka Get Job Done And Win First Title Since 2005 The Texas women dominated the women’s competition.
  MB: Kennedy Kithuka lapped the entire men’s 10k field 9 laps into the race, wins by 1:39 – Official 2014 Big 12 Discussion ThreadLapping the entire field in a power conference? Has it ever been done before? What about doing it just 9 laps into the race? 
• PAC-12s: *Results*Oregon Men Win By 60+, Women By 30+ At PAC-12s Before Crowd Of 1,100
  *MB:He’s not done yet: Lawi Lalang 3:36.34 over Cheserek 3:36.50 at Pac 12s!! *SHELBY MF HOULIHAN, takes down AISLING CUFFE in Pac 12 5k*Eric Jenkins pac10 5k*How is it ok for CU to finish DFL at Pac12s?
• Big 10: *Results *Podium Sweep In 5k And 10k Powers Wisco Men To Big Ten Title*Penn State Women Take 2014 Big Tens*MB:ERIN FINN – BIG TEN RECORD 10K*MB:Wisco boys 1-2-3 In 10k!! Let the domination begin – Official 2014 Big Ten Outdoor Discussion Thread

• SEC: *Results *Texas A&M, Arkansas Win SEC Outdoor Championships*Texas A&M ReleaseDeon Lendore ran a 44.16 in the 400. Race Video*MB: Official 2014 SEC Outdoors Discussion Thread
• IC4A/ECAC: Results

2 Interesting Articles

• Abrahamson: Why Isn’t Track And Field’s First Couple – Eaton And Theisen – More Famous?*Eaton Practices Pole Vault With 54-Year-Old And 77-Year-Old Men
• 49 Years And 3 Days Ago: Jim Ryun Ran 3:58 Solo At KS State Meet*Video

American Track League Results: Jason Richardson (13.65), Demetrius Pinder (45.72) And Dee Dee Trotter Among Winners At 3rd American Track League Meet In Atlanta*MB
*Kyle Merber:What Does Track And Field Need To Become Popular? Beer, Gambling And A Shorter Schedule Like The American Track League

Let’s Spice Up The Weekend With Some Controversy

• Carl Lewis Does It Again:Carl Lewis: Track And Field Needs A Leader And Usain Bolt “Is Not Leading”
• Richard Kilty Reveals Britain’s Top Sprint Groups Hate Each Other – Nearly CameTo Blows Apparently sub-10 man James Dasalou was put into a headlock by rival sprinterJames Ellingtonin the warm-up zone prior to the British nationals.
  *British Sprinters Hold Peace Talks After Rumors Of Wrestling Match
• After EPO Ban, Martin Fagan Returning To Running As It Was (According To Fagan) His Dying Father’s Last Wish “Promise me, Martin, you’ll get back running.” A skeptic from Ireland gave us the heads up about this one. Given the detection window is tiny, he is skeptical Fagan only used EPO once. Not sure if he believes the father’s last wish part.

Results From Kenya

• World Half Silver Medalist Mercy Wacera Wins 5k At Kenya Police Service Athletics Championships – Favorites Roll In Men’s 1,500 Heats To Set Up An Explosive FinalCaleb Mwangangi and Augustine Choge are in the 1,500 final.
• Hellen Obiri Highlights Kenya Defense Forces Championships Winning The 800 (2:00.6), 1,500 (4:10.0) And A Leg Of The Winning 4 X 400 Other highlights were World Half Marathon champ Gladys Cherono winning the 5K/10K and Olympic bronze medalist Abel Mutai taking the steeple.
• Caroline Cherotich Sets Kenyan High Jump NR At 1.75m At Kenya Defense Force Championships

• Rio 2016 Claims “Progress Being Made” But Admits Less Than 40 Per Cent Of Work Completed With Two Years To Go
• Glasgow 2014 Admits Unsuccessful Customers Charged “In Error” As Ticketing Crisis Continues

Kenyan News: Kemboi In Trouble With The Law Again

• Ezekiel Kemboi Has Been Sued For Child Negligence By Woman Claiming To Be His Ex-Girlfriend Reports also say that hotel security had to be called to break up a fight between the couple which started because she says he “tried to coerce me into having sex with him.” This report quotes Kemboi as denying the accusations saying he doesn’t know the woman at all.
  *Kemboi Denies Accusations “That lady is a frustrated person. We were friends some time back but she is now a married woman. … I did not have a child with her.”
• Recommended Read:Good Interview From Spikes Mag With Eunice Sum: Did You Know Before She Was World 800 Champion She Was A Heptathlete? She says she was recruited to focus on the 800 by 2007 World 800 champ Janeth Jepkosgei after she ran a 2:27 800 in a heptathlon.
• Kenya’s Commonwealth Games 400 Champ Mark Mutai Is Determined To Retain His Title This Year In Glasgow

Yelena Isinbayeva Says She Plans To Come Back To Competition After Her Pregnancy She is due to give birth in June.

RIP Former US Olympic 200 Champion Mel Patton, Who Has Died At 89 Years Old

Team USA For World Relays Announced

LRCTeam USA For World Relays Announced: US Women's 4 X 800 Could Get Gold, US Stars Simpson, Symmonds, Centro And Cain NOT Running