Quote Of The Day
– Almaz Ayana talking about the 5,000 WR attempt that will take place today. Read the LRC preview of the 5,000 here. Full meet preview here.
- Two track athletes make ESPN body issue (updated with ESPN pics)
- Thomas Riva, Nicole Sifuentes win 2015 Canadian 1500 Titles – Nate Brannen only 5th, Cam Levins 6th
- In honor of the 20 yr anniversary of the Grateful Dead's last shows, what's your fav Dead tune?
- How do you people deal with dogs on trails?
- Every country races a DMR at their best athlete's peak. Who wins?
- So there is no new High School "It" girl at the Moment for Track and Field????
2015 Paris DL On Saturday Could Be Special *Full Results *TV & Streaming (2-4pm ET) *2014 LRC Coverage
EVAN MF Jager!!LRC In A Brave, Brave Run, Evan Jager Nearly Crushes The World’s Best In Men’s Steeple, Settles For 8:00.43 American Record Jager took it to the world’s best. He had destroyed the world’s best in the steeple and was just meters away from a truly shocking 7:56-7 win. Then down he went. He still got up and moved to #13 at 8:00.43.
*MB: Evan Jager is F*cking Brave Beautiful Man
*MB: JAGER FALLS ON LAST JUMP ON PACE FOR 7:55
*MB: Evan JAGER on pace for 7:55 steeple before fall. Would CLEARLY beat Galen RUPP at 5000 if they raced – YES OR NO
LRC Paris Preview: Team USA’s Steeplers Take On The World’s Best; Makhloufi, Kiplagat And Souleiman To Battle At 1,500 The meet should be great. Fresh off a great run at the U.S. Champs, Evan Jager, Donn Cabral and Dan Huling face a stacked steeple field led by ’14 world #1 Jairus Birech and world/Olympic champ Ezekiel Kemboi. Taoufik Makhloufi, who ran 2:13.08 for 1,000 on Wednesday, takes on stalwarts Ayanleh Souleiman and Silas Kiplagat.
*IAAF Paris Preview
World Record Attempt LRC Paris 5k Preview: Almaz Ayana & Genzebe Dibaba Will Battle For The Win – And The World Record?
*Faith Kipyegon Says Don’t Count Her Out In Paris 5,000 More troubling for Jenny Simpson is the fact that she’s using the 5,000 for endurance as she battles back from injury before switching her attention to the 1,500. “As you know I have just recovered from an injury hence I can’t just go into the 1,500m straight.”
*Ayana: “I’m ready for the world record.”
*Almaz Ayana Talks About How She Went From A Steepler To World Class 5,000 Runner She says a switch to the coaching of her husband, a 3:34 guy, has helped a lot.
LRC Podcast Post-USAs / Pre-Paris Edition Of Track Talk Live In the 75 minute show, we looked back at USAs, talked doping and looked ahead to Paris and said why Jenny Simpson should be paying close attention to the 5,000.
- Paris Press Conference Highlights SAFP reveals she’ll only do the 100 at Worlds as she thinks the 200 is hurting her explosiveness.
- Valerie Adams Says She’s Ready To Throw (And Win Again) In Paris She’s been out for 10 months after shoulder surgery but has won 65 in a row but will face world leader Christina Schwanitz.
- With Bolt A DNS, Asafa Powell Takes Over Top Sprint Billing In Paris
- Asafa Powell Says Usain Bolt’s Current Struggles Are “Just A Phase” – Not Beginning Of End
- Blessing Okagbare, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce And Murielle Ahouré All In Paris 100
- Asafa Powell, Nesta Carter, Ryan Bailey And Mike Rodgers All In Paris 100
- Full Coverage in Paris DL Special Section.
More Sprint News: Akani Simbine’s Coach Was So Excited After Simbine Called To Tell Him He’d Broken 10.00 On Wednesday, He Didn’t Sleep All Night Long
Distance Women
- Lengthy TFN Q&A With Jenny Simpson Simpson’s parents are going on the TFN trip to Beijing to watch her run the World Champs
RIP: RW: Friends Honor The Memory Of Former Dartmouth Runner And Women’s Rights Advocate Nina Brekelman, Who Died At 25 In Washington, DC Fire
*Washington Post Article On Brekens She’d recently received a Fulbright grant and was going to research Jordan’s distance runners.
*House Where Fire Took Place Had No Rental License
*Obituary
Important Sprint News
- Bob Kersee Says Allyson Felix May Attempt 200/400 Double At Worlds – “It’s not that impossible.” She’d have to run the 200 semis an hour before the 400 final.
- Meet NYer Rai Benjamin – The First US HSer To Break 50.00 In 400H The UCLA signee has run 49.97.
- Jamaica Paper: Is Stephen Francis A “Genius” Or A “Selfish, Arrogant, Unpatriotic Coach Who Couldn’t Care Less About Jamaica’s Track And Field”?
- Richard Thompson Pulls Plug On 2015 Season He’s run 10.04 but wants to be 100% in 2016.
- It’s Official: Trinidad & Tobago Upgraded To 2012 4 X 100 Silver Due To Tyson Gay Ban
Fast Mid-Week Action From France – Kiprop And Centro, Pay Attention
LRCTaoufik Makhloufi Runs Fastest 1,000m Since 1999 – 2:13.08!!! *Video The time makes him the 4th fasteset 1k man in history.- Rose Almanzano (Cuba) Runs 1:58.99 For 800 She’s the 4th woman under 1:59 this year.
Post-USAs News
- Track & Field News Beijing Medal Predictions For All Events After USAs
Recommended Read/Listen: Ben Blankenship Came Back To Mixed Zone And Gave Classy Interview: “I think the most important thing in this sport is to win the shoulder-to-shoulder battle … I just didn’t do it.” He also wishes Leo and Andrews good luck: “I hope those guys hit the standard. I do. I was fourth, and that spot doesn’t get onto the Beijing team.”
Good Read #2: Chris Lotsbom:What Would Steve Prefontaine Think? A Reflection On The State Of The Sport- Erik Sowinski Isn’t Satisfied With Making Worlds, Now He Wants To Make The Final
- Robby Andrews Reflects On USAs: “I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Races like this make all the sacrifices worth it.”
Mo Farah Speaks Out – “I want people to know that I am 100%, I am not on any drugs, I am not on thyroids, I am not on any other medication.”
Full Trancsript Of Mo Farah’s Sky Sports Interview With Jim White
SkySports: Prove I’m A Cheat Or Leave Me Alone
*Guardian: Farah insists he will split from Alberto Salazar if doping claims proved
*Telegraph: Mo Farah says he will dump Alberto Salazar if allegations against coach are correct
*Independent: Salazar must prove innocence or I’ll be first person out
*BBC: Mo Farah says he is 100% clean
Weekly Free Coaching Advice
Recommended Read Steve Magness Article On Why Distance Runners Need A Coach Humans are famous for being bad at predicting their own behavior. “I strongly believe in having a coach. It’s not so much for the training, though that is important, it’s for the outside observation. I always say, a coaches job at the elite level is to hold the reigns. It’s not so much to motivate or poke and prod to get through a workout; instead it’s to prevent smart people from making dumb mistakes.”
2015 Canadian Champs Have Begun *Schedule / Results*Free Streaming
- Andre De Grasse Wins 100m Title In 9.95Matt Hughes has won the steeple.
- Cam Levins Beats Mo Ahmed To Win 5k, Nicole Sifuentes Wins w5k
Pre-Meet:Canada’s Fastest Man Andre De Grasse Hopes To Put Canadian Sprinting Back In Spotlight “I’m capable of competing against the big dogs. Canadian sprinting hasn’t been around for what? Maybe 15 years. No one knows about Canada any more. Everyone’s hearing about the U.S. running fast, Jamaica running fast. I want Canada to be back up there.”- Preview Of Women’s 800: Can Upstart Fiona Benson Beat Olympians Melissa Bishop And Jessica Smith?Annie LeBlanc, aka Mary Cain slayer, will also race.
- Preview Of Women’s 1,500 Former NCAA champ Sheila Reid will battle World Indoor bronze medalist Nicole Sifuentes and Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Kate Van Buskirk.
British Athletics Championships Are Fri-Sat-Sun *Schedule / Results *Listen To Live Local Radio (Also On BBC 2 On Sun.)
- Zharnel Hughes First Runs For GBR Result In Fastest Times In 200m Heats (20.55) He let up in the last 40m. 20.55 wouldn’t even make the final at USAs but is the fastest in GBR.
- Zharnel Hughes Shrugs Off “Plastic Brit” Tag After Winning 200m Heat
- 19-Year-Old Dina Asher-Smith Is Doing Well Balancing College And Running As She’s Aready Run 11.02 British Record This Year
- Holly Bradshaw (Bleasdale) Is Back In Vault After 16 Months Away From Competition
- Heptathlon Stars Jessica Ennis-Hill And Katarina Johnson-Thompson Will Finally Battle On Sunday (In 100H)
- Chris Tomlinson Hasn’t Broken 8.00m This Year
2016 Is Next Year
Rio 2016 Olympic Torch Unveiled
2015 AJC Peachtree – America’s Largest 10k – Is Always on July 4th *Results (link fixed)*Watch Taped On NBC Sports On July 6th
Team USA is Strong, But Team Africa Prevails in Peachtree Cup *Results Tyler Pennell was 2nd overall (28:45). Shalane Flanagan was the fastest women in the team race (32:05).
Patriotic Shalane Flanagan Is Ready To Lead Team USA In Inaugural Team Competition In Her Peachtree Road Race Debut On July 4th- Five Story Lines For 2015 AJC Peachtree Road Race – Shalane Flanagan Headlines, 1st-Year Team Competition, Christo Landry Vs. Tyler Pennel, And Much More Gebre Gebremariam (Team Africa), Daniele Meucci (Team Europe) and Yusuke Hasegawa (Team Asia) were all at the press conference with Flanagan.
- Press Conference: Athletes Say They Thrive In Team Format
Mid-Week Action – 2015 Portland Twilight *Full Results
LRCRobby Andrews Gets It Done, Runs 3:35.82 To Officially Make U.S. Team At 1,500 (Full Meet Recap) Andrews won handily. Edward Cheserek (3:37.08) was only the second UO guy in the race as Colby Alexander, who didn’t even make it to NCAAs or the final of PAC-12s, ran 3:36.49.
Sprint News
South Africa’s Akani Simbine Joins The Sub-10 Club With A 9.99 In Slovenia On Wednesday He’s just 21 and ran 10.19 at age 19.- Coach Glen Mills Is “Very Concerned” About Bolt’s Progress
- Ato Boldon Thinks Usain Bolt Should Skip Beijing We agree strategically but ask, “What about the Sport?” The fans deserve more. Boldon: “I would only show up to Beijing if I knew that I was capable of performing at the level that everybody is used to seeing me. If he shows up and loses, psychologically that will sort of change things come Rio next year.”
Other International Pro News
- Bolt Getting Treatment From 72–Year-Old Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt In Germany Bolt: “He’s the best doctor in the world and a great, great man. He has treated my muscles, but he is more than a doctor to me.”
- Bogdan Bondarenko Talks To Ato Boldon In Latest Edition Of IAAF Inside Athletics
- Kenya Prisons Service Is Signing Lots Of Athletes In Attempt To Dominate National Meet
- Comrades Winner Caroline Wöstmann Has Now Set Her Sights On 2016 Olympic Marathon She’s running NYC in October and hoping to vastly improve her 2:44 PR.
Kara Goucher Speaks
LRCKara Goucher Speaks Out After USATF 5,000m On Nike Oregon Project Doping Investigation: "I would welcome that opportunity for myself, for every former Oregon Project member, for every doctor that has been involved, to go under oath."
Kara Goucher said she doesn’t like being labeled a liar and said she will come out with a lot more information to show she is not one.
*MB: “People have been threatened at this meet” – Kara Goucher
*MB: When asked if he’d testify under oath, Salazar says he’d have to ask his lawyer
*MB: Is Rupp prepared to testify under oath? “We’ll see.”
*Oregonian: Kara Goucher has harsh words for Salazar after women’s 5,000 and hopes everyone gets to testify under oath
Yet Another Big NOP Doping Scandal Development – Whom Do You Believe? Magness Or Salazar?
LRC Questions Arise Regarding Alberto Salazar’s Explanation For Testosterone Experiment On His Sons – In 2006, Alberto Salazar Said The Idea That Gatlin Was Sabotaged Was “Preposterous On So Many Fronts” A key part of Alberto Salazar‘s defense is that he tested testosterone on his sons as he was fearful that someone like Chris Whetstine could sabotage Galen Rupp, not because he wanted to see how much micro-dosing one could get away with.
- Telegraph: Doubts Raised Over Testosterone Justification Salazar: “I guess anything’s possible, but it just doesn’t make sense.”
- MB: Salazar called Gatlin sabotage claim “preposterous” in 2006
LRC Top 10
LRCLetsRun.com's Top 10 Video Interviews From The 2015 USATF Outdoor Nationals
Goucher, Lagat, Centro, Solomon, Symmonds, Johnson, Infeld, Huling and Blankenship make the cut.
Bored At Work?Watch The Peachtree Road Race Pre-Race Press Conference With Shalane Flanagan At 11am ET On Thursday For FreeGebre Gebremariam (Team Africa), Daniele Meucci (Team Europe), and Yusuke Hasegawa (Team Asia), as well as Tatyana McFadden, will also be at the presser. The race itself will be live on USATF.tv on July 4th starting at 7:15 am ET. NBC Sports Network will have a highlight show on July 6th.
Q&A With Lindsey Scherf, Who Went From 2:37 To 2:32 At Grandma’s
Need Something To Do This Weekend? How About A Distance Documentary?
Learn All About The “Town Of Runners Champions” – Bekoji, Ethiopia – Which Has Produced Kenenisa Bekele, Tirunesh Dibaba And Derartu TuluWe assume Genzebe Dibaba is from there as well. The town’s population – 16,730. Can you say Sports Gene? You can now watch the documentary, Town of Runners, for $4.99.
US Youth Champs Are Done – Time To Get Ready For World Youths In Colombia *Results
- Two Weeks To Go To IAAF World Youth Championships In Cali, Colombia
- IAAF Recap Of US Youth Championships
*12 Athletes Hit World Youth Standard On 1st Day Of US World Youth Trials - 15-Year-Old Sydney McLaughlin Runs 55.28 400H
*MB: Utterly ridiculous (in a goood way): 15-year old Sydney McLaughlin runs 55.28 400h That time would place her 3rd in NCAAs and 6th at USAs. - Team USA For World Youths Is Announced
- Jamaica Names WY Team
- 39 Athletes Will Represent Colombia At IAAF World Youth Championships
- Team GB For World Youths Is Announced
- GB Team For Euro U23 Champs Named As Well
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