Legal Trouble For The Head Of HSI

LRCTop Track And Field Agent Emanuel Hudson Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Extort A Saudi Sheikh Of $15 Million

Ultra/Mountain: Hardrock 100 Mile CR Goes Down

• Spain’s Kilian Jornet Sets CR At Hardrock 100 Mile By More Than 40 Minutes Darcy Piceu Africa ran 29:49:58 to be the top woman finisher for the third straight year.
• Runner Survives Lightning Strike And Finishes 3rd At Hardrock 100 Mile *2nd Article
  
• Interesting Pre-Race Article On The Rise In Popularity Of Ultras “Hundred-milers now are what marathons used to be. … once you get into trail running or ultradistance running, then the 100-mile distance is the race you want to finish.”
• IAAF European Mountain Running Champs Recap

Commonwealth Games Start In 9 Days

• Recommended Read: Read The Story Of Nigeria’s Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Who Was The First Black African To Win Gold At The Commonwealth Games, But Whose Life Came To A Tragic End Ifeajuna won the HJ in 1954 and was a national hero, but then later was executed by a firing squad in 1967 as consequence of his role in Nigeria’s civil war.
• Paula Radcliffe Feels The Strength Mo Farah Gained From Marathon Training Could Help Him Get The Double Victory At The Commonwealth Games Farah’s agent Ricky Simms said it was too early to make any decisions on his upcoming races after his 2-day stay in the hospital last week.
• GB’s Laura Muir Might Have Tough Time Doubling At Commonwealth Games With The Addition Of An Extra Round Of The 800 An extra round was added because of the high number of entries. In other UK/Scottish news, Chris O’Hare talks about feeling really good during his 3:35 in Glasgow.

Russian Anti-Doping Agency Investigating Coach Viktor Chegin, Who Has Coached 17 Athletes Banned For Doping The investigation is in response to an online campaign led by Aussie Olympic medalist Jared Tallent.

More From The Weekend

• Brit Anthony Whiteman Improves His Own 800 Masters World Best With 1:48.05 He beat 19-year-old Matthew Fayers, who ran 1:48.12. NZ National Champion Angie Smit won the women’s 800 in 2:00.59.
• Photo Of The Week? Bunch Of Young Fans Cool Down With Will Leer After His 3:51 Mile Victory At The Morton Mile
• Kenyans Geoffrey Kenisi Bundi (44:18) And Mary Wacera (50:13) Win Boilermaker 15K In Utica, NY Jen Rhines and Guor Maker were the top Americans.
• Former African XC Champ Amos Mitei (28:50) And Alice Aprot (33:30) Win Rift Valley Technical Training Institute Charity 10K In Eldoret

Non-Coburn Glasgow Day 2

LRCDavid Rudisha Is Really Back, Ajee Wilson Keeps Rolling, Silas Kiplagat And Chris O’Hare Impress, And The Consistent Leo Manzano?The non-Emma distance action was pretty good with Rudisha crushing the field @ 800.

LRC Glasgow Day 2, Sprints & Field Events: Michelle-Lee Ahye Keeps Winning And Dafne Schippers Is The Netherlands’ Version Of Ashton Eaton Ahye remained perfect in the 100 while Schippers won the 200 over Allyson Felix and set two national records in the span of two hours. There were also wins for Christian Taylor (triple jump), Jeff Henderson (long jump) and Blanka Vlasic (high jump).

Glasgow Photos: Day 2, Day 1
Plus Emma Coburn Photo Gallery:

USADA Trying To Get John Drummond’s Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed It seems likely that this will happen. According to this article the statements made by Travis Tygart and Tyson Gay come from a court affidavit not released to the public and the inquiry into Drummond only became public when he filed his suit against USADA.

• Looks Great: First Trailer Released For “Unbroken” Movie On The Recently-Passed Olympic Runner And WWII POW Louis Zamperini
• Four Kenyan Distance Runenrs Set To Receive Russian Citzenship They’re competing at next week’s national championships, despite not being citizens yet. One of them, Evans Kiplagat, has PRs of 59:56 and 2:09:22.
• Italy’s Bernard Dematteis And Austria’s Andrea Mayr Win European Mountain Running Championships
• Day 1 Recap Of USATF Club Track And Field Championships: Central Park TC Leads

International Distance Results *Morton Games Distance Results *Full Harry Jerome Classic Results

• Ireland: Will Leer Shatters 34-Year-Old Morton Mile Record With 3:51.82 Victory; Molly Huddle Gets Women’s Record With 4:26.84 Leer won over Pat Casey (3:52.62), Cory Leslie (3:53.44), Zane Robertson  (3:53.72) and Kyle Merber (3:54.76). Phoebe Wright won the 800 (2:01.91) as Ireland’s Mark English ran 1:45.79 to beat US’s Ryan Martin (1:45.79). Mexico’s Juan Luis Barrios won the 3K in 7:44.21 over Trevor Dunbar (7:45.09). Ireland got an upset win when Thomas Barr beat world champ Jehune Gordon in the 400H with 48.94.
• Canada: Nate Brannen Wins Mile In 3:57.48 As Chris Derrick Is 3rd (3:59.52) Eric Avila was 5th and AJ Acosta 6th, both just over 4 minutes. Canada’s Melissa Bishop won the 800 (2:00.06) as Erica Moore was 3rd (2:02.14) and Sarah Brown won the mile in 4:26.67 with NCAA 1,500 champ Shelby Houlihan 6th (4:33.52).

US Distance News

• Reccommended Read:Oregon Project Assistant Coach Pete Julian Has Defied The Odds To Battle Cancer And Stay Alive Julian is a former elite who has had three cancer surgeries, but a miracle drug that wasn’t supposed to work is what saved him although it’s not a cure and he still goes to the hospital every nine months to get scans saying, “I get into that CT machine, and I’m shaking out of straight fear.”
• Embarrassing:Even With The Official DQ Report Being Released, No One From USATF Has Communicated At All With Andrew Bumbalough No one from the working group ever thought to speak to the athlete who was erroneously DQed and USATF didn’t bother to give him an update or an apology at any time during or after the process.
• 2:13 US Marathoner Ricky Flynn Arrested On Embezzlement Charges The 2012 Olympic Trials 12th placer stands accused of stealing more than $5,000 in goods from a local running store he worked at.
• Mac Fleet Joins OTC Elite
• Kara Goucher Blog Update On Her Comeback From Her Sacral Stress Fracture She’s healthy and off the Alter-G running on solid ground again, just having finished an 82-mile week.