Quote Of The Day
– David Rudisha talking about how his coach Brother Colm O’Connell joked with him after he finished second in the Commonwealth Games 800. The subpar season hasn’t stopped Rudisha from thinking big, though, as he’s going for Johnny Gray‘s 1:12.81 600m WR tomorrow in Birmingham.
2014 Birmingham GP Is Sunday – 10am ET (9:30 am ET On BBC) *Schedule / Results*TV / Streaming
LRC Birmingham Preview: Mo Farah Dodges The Competition (Again), A Spectacular Men’s Mile, Ajee Vs. Eunice, And David Rudisha Goes For The World Record? This meet is loaded from a mid-d and distance perspective but sadly Mo Farah‘s race is an insult to the fans. Silas Kiplagat, Ayanleh Souleiman and Asbel Kiprop plus Leo Manzano and Matt Centrowitz will race the mile, David Rudisha squares off against Adam Kszczot at 600, while world leader Ajee Wilson and world champ Eunice Sum resume their rivalry in the 800.
- More:IAAF Full Preview: HJ Battles Resume With Bohdan Bondarenko Vs. Mutaz Essa Barshim Kirani James in the 400, Sally Pearson 100H and a competitive 200 with Nickel Ashmeade, Michael Rodgers, Kim Collins and Christophe Lemaitre.
- David Rudisha Jokes That Brother Colm O’Connell Called Him The “Silver Man” After Commonwealth Games He explains his approach for trying to break the 600m WR held by US’s Johnny Gray at 1:12.81.
- Mo Farah On This Year: “It’s been a struggle. … It’s been the toughest year of my career for sure, certainly the toughest I’ve had for many years.”
- Video: Farah Optimistic Ahead Of Birmingham GP
2014 DN Galan*Full Results*LRC Stockholm Photo Gallery Updated 180+
W1,500: LRCJenny Simpson Pulls Away Over Final 50 Meters For Her Second Career Diamond League VictoryIndoor WR holder Genzebe Dibaba took this one out very quickly but was caught on the final lap.
*MB: Wow: What a 1500!!!! Jenny Simpson wins it in Stockholm!!!
M5,000: LRCGalen Rupp Goes For It, Fades To 13:05 As Muktar Edris Arrives With World-Leading 12:54.83 In addition to Edris’ win, Ndiku broke 13:00 for the first time but most of the men in this one were reminded that a 5k is 5,000 meters, not 2,500.
MB:RUPP GOES FOR IT – Comes up short over last 500 – 13:05.
Rest Of The Meet:LRCFull Stockholm Recap: Adam Kszczot Grabs Big Win In 800; Hiwot Ayalew Keeps On Winning In Women’s Steeple Kszczot followed up his victory at Europeans by taking down Nijel Amos in the 800 in a negative-split 1:45 while Emma Coburn was just third in the steeple in 9:20. Allyson Felix and Queen Harrison got wins in the sprints while Nesta Carter won the 100 in 9.96. In the field events, Reese Hoffa won to extend his lead in the DL standings while France’s Renaud Lavillenie‘s 20-meet win streak is history after he failed to clear a height on a poor night for jumping. Plus a B-heat victory for Leo Manzano.
*M800: MB: Adam Kszczot crushes Nijel Amos in 800 -Is this white guy the world’s best?
*MB: Official 2014 Stockholm DL Discussion Thread
Outside Coverage:
- IAAF Recap Part I: Simpson Wins
- IAAF Recap Part III: Lavillenie Winning Streak Comes To An End In Stockholm
- IAAF Recap Part II: Bartoletta, Hoffa And Perkovic Win Early Thrillers
- Stockholm Starter Criticized For Holding Athletes Too Long In Set-Position An unusually high number of races had to be restarted with Sally Pearson being DQd for a false start in the 100H.
Doping
- Study Looks At How EPO Works In this study, they found that just taking EPO alone (no training) increased VO2max by 15%. Those that trained and took EPO increased by 27%.
- A Look At 2013 Drug Testing Stats By WADA For All Sports In Chart Form According to this, overall tests for track are down from 2012.
Week That Was
LRC Excessive Celebration, Where Are The Fans, Double Domination, Fast Moms, Slow Japanese And Running Backwards: The Week That WasWho had the performance of the week: Mo Farah,the shirtless Mahiedine Mekhissi Benabbad, Nijel Amos or Almaz Ayana? We span the globe to tell you and find video of Amos’ 800m victory over Mo Aman where they went out in 56. Plus Cooly, the twerking mascot.
Doping News: Turkey Paying For Last Year’s Drug Busts
Positive News:Cleaned-Up Turkish Team Fails To Score At Euro Champs After the slew of bans last year they are missing a lot of their “top” athletes and also had many others quit competing for “personal reasons.” The team is worse, but apparently cleaner.- IAAF Anti-Doping Official Abby Hoffman Says That New Innovations In Retroactive Testing Technology Should Deter Athletes From Cheating Unfortunately, you can dope now, gain fame and money and even if your frozen sample tests positive in 10 years, in most cases you still keep all that money.
- 6 Years Later, Canada’s Dylan Armstrong Will Receive His SP Bronze Medal From 2008 Olympics Comes in wake of lifetime ban of Belarus’ Andrei Mikhnevich.
Sprint/Jump News
- Important Doping News Sprint Times Are Likely To Get A Lot Slower In Coming Years As The Biological Passport Now Works For Testosterone
- Lolo Jones Ends Track And Field Season Early As She’s Tired After Winter Olympics
Next Week’s Big Meets
- 1st DL Final In Zurich Next Thursday Will Feature An Insane Men’s 800David Rudisha, Mohammed Aman, Nijel Amos and Asbel Kiprop.
- Dasaolu Vs. Gemili Vs. Bolt In Weltklasse Zurich 100m
- All Of Germany’s European Medalists Will Compete At IAAF World Challenge Meeting In Berlin On 31 August
More News Of Note:
- Mo Farah Says He’s Skipping DL final, Won’t Run A Marathon Until After Rio 2016
- Congrats: Alysia Montano Has Given Birth To 7-Lb. 15-Oz. Baby Girl
- US High Schooler Stephanie Jenks Wins Silver In World Youth Olympic Games Triathlon
- USATF Chula Vista Head Coach Craig Poole Resigns
- Jenny Meadows Runs 2:01.48 In UK
- After Missing 8 Months With Knee Injury, Patrick Makau Is Healthy And Will Do Half Marathon In Sept. Then Tokyo Marathon In Feb.
2014 NCAA Cross Country – LetsRun.com’s Top 10 Countdown
LRC 2014 Men’s XC Preview: #2 Stanford & #1 Colorado As usual, Stanford is loaded on paper with the Rosa brothers, Sean McGorty and grad student Maksim Korolev, but that still may not be enough to topple defending champion Colorado, which returns its entire top seven plus its top runner from 2012, Jake Hurysz (13:38 5k PR).
Previous: *#4 Oregon & #3 Northern Arizona
*#6 Portland & #5 Oklahoma State
*#8 Wisconsin & #7 Indiana
*#10 Villanova & #9 Iona
Other Pro News
- Canada’s Nicole Sifuentes Wins Crim Michigan Mile In 4:44 In Close Finish With Heather Kampf And Sarah BrownJack Bolas won for the men in 4:06. *Women’s Results*Men’s Results
Lawi Lalang Signs With Nike- UK’s Jo Pavey Blogs About Her Career And Competing As A 40-Year-Old Mother Of Two “I put my recent success down to the fact that being a mum makes me really happy. … It seems that motherhood has made me more resilient.”
- Video: Usain Bolt Does The “Ice Bucket Challenge”
Bolt And Ritz Highlight Saturday Action
Dathan Ritzenhein Makes Return To Racing Tomorrow At Crim Festival 10 Miler In Michnigan Ritz hasn’t raced at all in 2013 after he got a sports hernia in the fall. He said he’s not at 100%, but has been working out hard for a month and wants to see where he’s at.- Another WR For Bolt? Bolt Could Break World Indoor 100m Record When He Races At The National Stadium In Poland Which Has A Retractable Roof The unofficial record for 100m indoors is 10.05 set by Namibia’s Frankie Fredericks in 1996.
- Sunday: Provisional Entry Lists For August 24th Brimingham DL Meet
Sprint Stuff: Gatlin Calls Himself “Batman”
Justin Gatlin Still Feeling Backlash From Doping Past As Three Of The Final 4 Diamond League Meets Wouldn’t Invite Him Zurich meet director Patrick Magyar said, “There’s no personal animosity. The decision of the general assembly stands as this: We don’t want to give our money to athletes that have brought the sport disrepute.” Gatlin on the other hand said, “I look at myself as the ‘Batman’ of track – a vigilante. You may not like me, but I’m needed.”- Happy Birthday, Usain Bolt!10 Career Stats To Know About The World’s Fastest Man Bolt turned 28 on Thursday.
- Oregon’s NCAA/USA 110H Champ Devon Allen Heading Into Football Season With High Expectations Football season is starting, but he’s still talking about doing big things in track as he wants to become the first collegian to break 13 seconds.
- GB’s Young Sprinter Jodie Williams Talks About Coming Back From Injury Disappointments To Get Double Silver At Commonwealth Games And Euro Champs She’ll finish her season this weekend at the Birmingham DL meet before she goes on to enjoy 2 weeks of binge eating.
2014 NYC Marathon
New York City Marathon Champions Geoffrey Mutai And Priscah Jeptoo Return To Defend Titles In November Mutai will be going for NYC title #3 – no one has won 3 since Alberto Salazar in 1982.
Other Random News
- 50 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Adidas The Three Stripes on adidas shoes were originally put there for stability, not style.
- Polls Show Seb Coe Is A Popular Choice For London Mayor Although it sounds like he’s ruled himself out of the mayoral race.
- Ashton Eaton Beats Steve Prefontaine In Final Vote For “Oregon’s Greatest Athlete Ever”
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It’s Time To Get Excited For Some Fall Marathons
NYC: RRWA Rejuvenated Kara Goucher Is Ready To Race Again: “The passion is definitely back and I am excited for it to start.”
An honest Goucher admits that at the end in Portland she was going through the motions, “running it out” as the “passion was kind of gone.” Remotivated, she’s going to race the Rock ‘n’ Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon in September and then New York (not announced but what else could it be?).
Chicago: MB:Kenenisa Bekele vs Eliud Kipchoge in ChicagoMarathon:what do you think about this duel?
Eindhoven:Road 10km And 15km World Record Holder Leonard Komon To Make Marathon Debut On October 12th In Eindhoven, Netherlands Sorry, we initially said Eindhoven was in Belgium.
More Post-Euros News
- Patrick K. Magyar, CEO Of Zürich 2014, Was Very Happy With The Way Things Went He was pleased with 148,432 stadium visitors over 10 sessions and 80%+ capacity in the evening.
- Former 60H World Champ Derval O’Rourke Thinks Mekhissi-Benabbad Was Treated Too Harshly
- Behind The Scenes At The 2014 European Championships With Team GB A pretty good video.
- Q&A With Commonwealth And European Medalist Laura Weightman With a PR of 4:00.17, the question is when does she go sub-4.
- Telegraph Reporter Goes For A Run With Jo Pavey
World Champs News
- Countdown Clock Switched On Outside Bird’s Nest To Mark “One Year To Go” Before 2015 Beijing World Championships
- IAAF President Lamine Diack Gives Speech At “One-Year” Countdown Ceremony To 2015 Worlds
- 5-Year Countdown: After World Juniors Success, Vin Lananna Continues Promoting Eugene As Possible Host For 2019 World Champs Lananna: “It’s almost unthinkable, but with the unwavering support of the entire state, we can dare to dream big.”
- Youth: IAAF Friday Recap Of Youth Olympic Games: US’s Myles Marshall Fastest In 800 Qualification With 1:50.22 US’s Noah Lyles was fastest 200 qualifier with 20.71.
More Distance News
- Irish 800 Runner Mark English Looking Forward To Starting Back Up At Med School After The Season Ends English won bronze at Euro Champs and says, “I love having something to distract me from all the training during the winter. You can’t just be an athlete with nothing going on in your life.”
- IAAF Inside Athletics: Ato Boldon Interviews David Rudisha
- UK’s Andy Vernon Hoping For Big Half Marathon PR At BUPA Great North Run Half Marathon On September 7th The double Euro silver medalist has only run 1:04:43 and is hoping to run in the 61-minute range. He’ll be in the race where Mo Farah will face Olympic/World marathon champ Stephen Kiprotich.
- World Class Field Set For Cape Town Marathon In SA On September 21 Field includes 5 sub-2:10 men and 3 sub-2:28 women and SA’s Irvette van Zyl.
- Ethiopia’s 2:04:23 Man Ayele Abshero Will Lead Field For October Amsterdam Marathon
- Study Shows That Cushioned Insoles Might Reduce Achilles Injuries
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More News Of Note
- The Good: Police: Jogger Saves Kids After Stroller With Two Kids Strapped In Falls Into Reservoir In Brookline, MA
- The Bad:Mo Farah’s Younger Brother Likely Didn’t See His Brother Win The 5,000 As He Was In Jail For Burglary
- Falmouth Race Director Tommy Leonard Celebrated His 81st Birthday Last Week
- Bizarre:Want To Run 6 Days In A Row? On An Indoor Track? Welcome To Six Days In The Dome, An Extreme Running Adventure
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RR#1: Phil Hersh Profiles Kenenisa Bekele’s Preparation For 2014 Chicago – Bekele Says He Has No Regrets About His Track Career Bekele says he’ll do more long runs in preparation for Chicago as the marathon in Paris was harder than he thought it would be.
RR#2: 
German Long Jump Champ Gets Huge Feature In NY Times – And For Good Reason – He’s Got 1 LegMarkus Rehm won the German nationals with a massive 8.24 (27+ feet), which would have won him silver at Euros (which the Germans wouldn’t let him compete in). We don’t get the controversy – the IAAF should 100% ban all athletes with prosthetic legs.
Trail/Mountain Running
- Pikes Peak:Former CU Buff Allie McLaughlin Wins Women’s Race, Leads Team USA To World Championship
Former Cornell Runner Sage Canaday Takes Title At Pikes Peak Ascent Canaday led Team USA to a dominant victory.- Leadville:In 1st attempt, Rob Krar Wins Leadville Trail 100 Ultra-Marathon Race With 2nd-Fastest Time Ever “Without a doubt that was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
- Emma Roca (Spain) Wins Women’s Race
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