– David Rudisha after winning his third 800m global title and first since 2012 by going wire to wire in a tactical 800m in Beijing.
Day 5 MB: Official Wed Day 5 Live Discussion Thread: Women’s Steeple, Men’s 400, Women’s 400H Finals
LRC Day 5 Morning Session: Disaster For Alysia Montaño And Close Calls For BMart And Ludlow; All 3 Americans Through To Men’s 5,000 Final It was a devastating morning for Alysia Montaño, whose bid for a much-deserved global medal came to a halt before it really even got started when she went sprawling to the track. Caster Semenya barely squeaked in – oh, wait … she had the 3rd best time of the day. It was a much better morning for Ryan Hill, Galen Rupp and Ben True.
LRC Marquis Dendy Talks after failing to make finals in long jump at 2015 IAAF Worlds – Hopes Beijing flop will fuel him to double Olympic Gold The US struggles in the sprints/jumps continued as both Marquis Dendy and Will Claye failed to make the triple jump final.
Day 4: LRC Genzebe Dibaba Earns Gold With Ridiculous 1:56.9 Final 800 – Americans Stars Jenny Simpson And Shannon Rowbury Left Way Behind Simpson finished the race with one shoe.
LRC Negative Split, No Problem: The King Is Far From Dead – David Rudisha Wins Third Global Title With 24.36 Final 200Like London 2012, Rudisha led wire-to-wire, but he came through 400 almost five seconds slower (54.17). He ran a big negative split (51.67 final 400) to win over Poland’s Adam Kszczot in 1:45.86, while Amel Tuka earned Bosnia & Herzegovina’s first ever medal by taking the bronze.
MB: Official 2015 Worlds Day 4 Thread: Women’s 1,500 And Men’s 800 Finals
Post-Race Video Interviews *Race Videos
LRC Recap: Everything You Need To Know About The Saturday AM Session At WorldsEvan Jager survived a huge, huge scare on a very good morning session from the Americans as Clayton Murphy filled in admirably for Nick Symmonds to keep his dream 2015 going. All 4 Americans advanced in the women’s 1,500m, as did druggie Tatyana Tomashova, which got some comment from Jenny Simpson.
Saturday Morning 8:50am ET – LRC2015 Worlds Men’s 10,000 Preview: Can Geoffrey Kamworor (Or Anyone) Stop Mo Farah? Can Galen Rupp Medal?This year, in the span of 118 days, Mo Farah ran 59:32 for 13.1 and 3:28 for 1,500. How does that combination of strength and speed possibly lose? World XC champ Geoffrey Kamworor hopes he has the answer – be in shape to run 27:11 for 10,000 at 5,500 feet of altitude. *Discuss
Monday Morning 8:35am ET:LRC 2015 Worlds Women’s 10,000 Preview: Can Anyone Stop Vivian Cheruiyot From Returning To The Winner’s Circle And Winning A 4th Track Gold? Will Molly Huddle Medal? An American man has never medaled in the 10,000 at Worlds but Molly Huddle has a real shot at joining Kara Goucher and Shalane Flanagan as a global medalist. Vivian Cheruiyot is back from maternity leave and seems like a near lock for gold given Tirunesh Dibaba‘s absence.
LetsRun Previews: *M800 *W800 *M1,500 *W1,500 *MSteeple *WSteeple *M5,000 (Coming) *W5,000 (Coming) *M10k *W10k *MMarathon *WMarathon (Coming)
IAAF:Event-By-Event Previews
*Men:*100*200*400*110H*400H *HJ*PV*LJ*TJ*SP*Discus*Javelin*Hammer*Decathlon
*Women:*100*200*400*100H*400H *HJ*PV*LJ*TJ*SP *Discus*Javelin*Hammer*Heptathlon
Oscar Pistorius To Remain In Prison After South African Justice Department Rules Early Release As “Premature” His parole has been postponed until after his case is reviewed since he could end up with a longer sentence.
Sam Chelanga always vowed he'd bring change to his totally impoverished village where his mother died when he was young. At age 20, he was told by marathon world record holder Paul Tergat he should become a runner if he wanted to go to college. Chelanga's first thought was no way. "I went home and I had made up my mind. This dream of helping people, trying to get a higher education, it's too much. It's hurting me," said Chelanga, but in the end, he gave it a try and now a 27:08 collegiate record, 4 NCAA titles and favorite status for the 2016 US Olympic team are his reality - as is clean drinking water for his village.
LRCThe Lauren Johnson Story: From Over 2:20 For 800 In HS To The U.S. World Championships Team At 1,500 Johnson grew up in Indiana playing basketball and didn’t take running seriously until her senior year of college. Now she’s heading to Worlds.
LRCLetsRun.com’s Thoughts On The Sunday Times Doping Investigation – Including Kenyan Medalists May Be CLEANER Than Other Countries We’ve had a couple of weeks to digest the Sunday Times doping data and we share our thoughts, mainly trying to give some perspective.
LRCThree Things That Need To Be Done To Immediately Improve The Anti-Doping Fight The Sunday Times exposé has shown us there needs to bea lot more transparency in the anti-doping fight.
LRCThe Good, The Bad And The Interesting From The Sunday Times Doping In Athletics Data A good read if you actually haven’t read the Sunday Times series as we try to summarize the numbers, including the longer the distance the more cheats, and New Zealand is as clean as snow.
Sunday Times: IAAF Blocked Publication Of Paper In Scientific Journal Saying 1/3 Of Competitors At 2011 World Champs Took An Anonymous Survey Where They Said They Doped We’re not sure how it can be scientific when you ask people “have you doped” and tell them it is totally anonymous. At the same time, the IAAF should let the survey come out.
Recommended Read: Best Recap of Situation Appears In The New York Times
IAAF Denies: “The IAAF has never vetoed publication of this article. … The IAAF understands that the article in question was submitted for publication (in a scientific paper) but it was rejected.” The study, which was funded by WADA, was one where competitors in Daegu submitted anonymous surveys about whether they were a doper or not. The IAAF says this isn’t a new allegation as it was aired by ARD in 2013.
*BBC Recap
LRCPolice Report: Nike Global Director Of Athletics John Capriotti Threatened To Kill Brooks Beasts Head Coach And Former Nike Employee Danny Mackey At 2015 USAs At USAs, it was stated that people had been threatened at the meet but the details were missing – until now. LetsRun.com has obtained a police report stating that Nike’s John Capriotti threatened the life of the Brooks Beasts coach Danny Mackey. Witnesses interviewed by LetsRun.com support Mackey’s claim.
*MB: Nike’s Global Director of Athletics John Capriotti Threatened To Kill Brooks Beasts Head Coach Danny Mackey At 2015 USAs
Bookmark This Page:Watch Worlds Without Knowing The Results Thank message boarder “Darth Vader is Luke’s father” for the idea.
LRC One-Page Recap Of Tuesday’s Day 4 Action At 2015 WorldsRudisha won the 800 and his countryman won the 400m hurdles, Genzebe Dibaba hit burst mode, Greg Rutherford got a Worlds gold, and Justin Gatlin and Usain Bolt cruised in round 1 of the 200.
Alberto Salazar Says “You should put your money on me being cleared – it’s a winning bet.” Also says, “Mo will be back with us.”
*Unbelievable: Seb Coe Still A Nike Ambassador When this news broke last week, we weren’t worried & assumed Coe was above the fray and would end the relationship once he became IAAF president, but that hasn’t happened. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised as Nike has sponsored Max Siegel‘s racing team and charity in the last few years.
Starting Wed: LRC 2015 Worlds Men’s 5,000 Preview: Should We Hand Mo Farah The Gold Right Now? Can Ryan Hill, Ben True Or Galen Rupp Become The First American-Born Athlete To Medal In History? We break it down for you.
Day 3 Is Complete LRC Agony & Ecstasy In The Women’s 10,000: Molly Huddle Gives The Bronze Away To Emily Infeld As Vivian Cheruiyot Wins Gold Once AgainHuddle had the bronze until the final step, when she slowed down to throw up her arms, allowing Infeld to sneak by on the inside. Overall, it was a fantastic race for the Americans (Shalane Flanagan was the other), as they went 3-4-6.
LRC Ezekiel Kemboi Cements Status As Greatest Of All Time; Evan Jager’s Medal Hopes Come Up ShortThere were doubts surrounding Kemboi’s fitness this year, but once Worlds came around, he did what he always does, blowing away the field over the final 200 to win in 8:11.28. Conseslus Kipruto managed second despite tearing his shoe on the final water jump, while Brimin Kipruto (3rd) and Jairus Birech (4th) helped produced an unprecedented 1-4 sweep for Kenya. Dan Huling (5th) was the top American as Evan Jager (6th) and Donn Cabral (10th) struggled.
MB:Huddle Celebrates Too Soon, EMILY INFELD GETS BRONZE
*Ezekiel Kemboi 5th straight major win Evan Jager 6th.
*Schippers 10.83!!!!!! SAFP 10.76 for gold.
*Official Day 3 Live Discussion Thread: Molly Huddle and Evan Jager go for medals – can they do it?
LRC History In The Steeplechase: The US Will Send Three Women To The Final For The First Time Ever It was a great morning for the US women in the steeple as two years after sending zero to the final, Team USA will be sending three to the final for the first time ever.
*MB:Steeple Talk
LRC Short On Time? One-Page Recap Of All Of Monday’s Action At 2015 Worlds Drama in the 10k, greatness in the steeple and the 100, collegian Shawn Barber winning the pole vault, plus some developments in the qualifying. We recap it all in quick fashion in one article. *Interview With Barber
Saturday Photo Gallery (224 Photos)
Day 1 In The Books: LRC Kenyan Team Tactics Not Enough To Stop The Invincible Mo Farah In Men’s 10,000 – Farah Wins 6th Global Track Title At last, the Kenyans gave the fans what they wanted – a relentless assault onMo Farah. In the end, it didn’t matter as Farah overcame the spirited team challenge to win 27:01 as Kenya was rewarded with the 2-3-4 placings. Galen Rupp ran the 4th-fastest time (27:08) in American history to finish 5th. *Video highlights
*MB: Official 2015 Worlds Men’s 10,000 Discussion Thread
*MB: Mo Farah – What a talent!!!
*Independent On Farah’s Win
Saturday Morning:LRC 2015 Worlds Marathon: Stars Fizzle As 19-Year-Old Ghirmay Ghebrselassie Wins Eritrea’s First Gold, A 2:16 Guy Goes For It, And The Top 10 DON’T KNOW WHERE THE FINISH IS A 2:16 marathoner broke away from the world’s best, but he could not hang on as Eritrea got its first Worlds gold ever as the top 10 did not know where the finish was. *AP Recap Of 1st Session: After A Big Surprise In Marathon, Rudisha, Ennis-Hill Restore Normalcy At World Championships
*RRW: 19-Year-Old Ghirmay Ghebreslassie Surprises As Youngest-Ever World Marathon Champ
LRC Everything You Need To Know About Justin Gatlin’s Drug Positives Before His Showdown With Bolt, Including His Dad Got A Gun And Wanted To Kill Trevor Graham In a LetsRun first, we show some sympathy for Justin Gatlin, reveal how his dad intended to kill Trevor Graham when he heard his son tested positive (as part of an April Fool’s Prank), and how Gatlin’s own agent didn’t buy the Chris Whetstine sabotage story. Plus, we go on the the record and say Gatlin should never have been banned 4 years.
LRC Book Review Of Once a Runner Prequel Racing the Rain By John L. Parker, Jr. – “It works and has the potential to draw a new audience into Once a Runner.” Racing the Rain isn’t about Quenton Cassidy‘s development as a runner, but rather his development into a runner. The novel opens by introducing a second-grade Cassidy and concludes with the miler moving into his familiar room in Southeastern University’s Doobey Hall. In between, Parker’s sharp prose richly describes what it was like to grow up a middle-class baby boomer on Florida’s Gold Coast.
LRC Book Review: How to Race the Mile By Jeff Hollobaugh – “A terrific resource for younger runners.” And “… also a great read for even the expert fan.” We recommend the book, which is a comprehensive look at the mile from the 19th century to the present and is full of rich race histories.
LRC He Is The Greatest: The Incomparable Usain Bolt Wins 5th Global 100 Title As Justin Gatlin Can’t Keep It Together In Final MetersBolt barely made the final after stumbling in the semis but he showed the resilience that makes him the Greatest of All Time by running 9.79 in the final to edge Gatlin by .01. Gatlin led most of the way but he couldn’t hold his form once Bolt caught him in the final 10 meters and had to settle for silver. The battle for bronze between college stars De Grasse and Bromell was even closer.
Video Of Men’s 100m Final: Usain Bolt Defeats Justin Gatlin 9.79 To 9.80 (Or Did Gatlin Give It Away)? You can rewatch it and decide. Full coverage from Sunday coming. US visitors only.
Shocking Developments In Men’s 800 LRC Three Thoughts After Men’s 800 Semis – Amos And Aman Go Home Early, David Rudisha Most Certainly Stays And The Amazing Year Of Clayton Murphy Comes To An End
*After Season Of His Life, Clayton Murphy Gets Some Attention From Grantland.com Their headline: “Running Man: Clayton Murphy On Junk Food, Passports, And Replacing Nick Symmonds”
*MB: US distance runner gets some pub on Grantland.com – You’ll never guess who
LRC Three Thoughts After Women’s 1,500 Semis – A Medal Of Any Color Won’t Be Easy For Simpson Or Rowbury; Kerri Gallagher And Lauren Johnson Should Be Proud; And The African-Born Runners Have Been Foolish Jenny Simpson and Shannon Rowbury both auto qualified to Tuesday’s final but they are going to have their hands full as the African-born runners are looking great.
Worlds start Friday night in Beijing and our world famous prediction contest always makes Worlds way more interesting. Plus, thanks to Running Warehouse, Saucony and Molly Huddle, we've got some cool Saucony/Molly Huddle-themed prizes.
MB:Turkey’s Asli Cakir Alptekin Stripped Of 2012 Olympic Gold In 1,500 For Doping (link fixed) Alptekin’s victory didn’t pass the “smell test.” Thankfully, after her initial DQ was overturned by the Turks, she’s agreed to accept an 8-year ban and forfeit her 2012 gold medal. That’s the good news. The bad news … the new Olympic champ is fellow Turk Gamze Bulut, who had never broken 4:18 prior to 2012 and hasn’t broken 4:07 since 2012.
LRC Stephen Sambu (32:17) & Diane Nukuri (36:47) Streak To Titles At 43rd Falmouth Road Race Americans Abdi Abdirahman, Chris Derrick and Meb Keflezighi all had the lead at one point in the men’s race but the top Americans were Sara Hall (2nd) and Sam Chelanga (4th). Derrick ended up getting trounced but thinks he’s ready to PR at 5,000. Keflezighi reveals he recently was forced to walk home in the middle of a 12-mile training run. And American marathoners, it’s time to get nervous as Chelanga reveals he may run the Trials. Post-race interviews with Americans Keflezighi, Chelanga, Derrick, and Hall.
*RRW:Stephen Sambu Is Big Winner At Falmouth; Wins Race, Countdown Bonus
A Brisk Walk May Be All It Takes To Improve Our Ability To Think As We Age Old people who walked for 225 minutes a week were only a little smarter than those who did it for 75.
Journalist Takes A Trip Down Memory Lane And Recaps The 1st World Champs Held In Asia – Tokyo 1991 The track exceeded IAAF standards for hardness and was therefore great for sprinters.
Chelanga, who has a 27:08 10,000 PR (a time surpassed by only two Americans in history), was sworn in as a citizen on Aug. 14 in Arizona.
*MB:Breaking: Sam Chelanga was sworn in as a US citizen today in Arizona
LRC Investigates Lehigh Valley Got It Wrong: The Evidence Is Conclusive: Mike Rossi – The Viral Boston Marathon Dad – Is A Marathon Cheat And Should Never Have Been On The Starting Line In Boston In April, Mike Rossi gained international fame for his snarky response to a letter from his kids’ principal scolding him for taking them out of school for several days to watch Boston. A LetsRun.com investigation has revealed that Rossi’s principal was correct, the kids should never have been in Boston as the evidence is conclusive – their father didn’t legitimately qualify for the 2015 Boston Marathon. How confident are we that Rossi cut the course when he “ran” his 3:11:45 BQ qualifier at Lehigh Valley? Extremely. We’ll pay Mike Rossi $10,000 if he qualifies again in the next 12 months – and the qualifying time is 13+ minutes slower – 3:25.
*MB: Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?
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