This Weekend’s Action *Portland HP Results *All Collegiate Results

LRC“It Was Phenomenal” – Andrew Wheating Is Thrilled With His First Banked Indoor Track Race In Nearly 6 Years The last few years have been a major struggle for Wheating. Has he finally turned the corner? *Portland HP Meet #2 Results

• MB: Wheating, Jenkins, Levins, Gall, Reid, Roesler all racing at Portland HP Meet #2 Tonight *Results
  *MB: Andrew Wheating (3:39) Crushes Dunbar, Geoghegan, and O’Lionaird
  *MB:Paul Chelimo Edges Eric Jenkins 7:44-7:45
  *MB:Sheila Reid Wins by 5+ Seconds in 4:18
• Oregonian recap Prandini ran 7.28 and Roesler 2:04.
• World Indoor Track Has Been Sold To University of Iowa
• Nick Willis Wins Windy NZ 3,000 Title In 8:00 Let’s hope the winds weren’t actually 60 mph like Willis predicted.
• Jesse Squire’s Best Matchups Of The Weekend – Shawn Barber Vs. Renaud Lavillenie Is The #1 Headliner
• Thomas Longosiwa And Silas Kiplagat To Race Saturday At Kenyan Prison Champs
• Nick Symmonds Says He Won’t Compete At The USATF Or World Indoors
• Power 5 Takes Over T&F? Super Meet: Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, South Carolina,Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Arizona, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Purdue, Southern California And Texas Will All Battle In Same Meet This Weekend With Dual Meet Scoring The meet only for Power 5 conferences is being held at UAB – site of NCAA indoors. *More From Auburn
• Jesse Squire Ranks The Greatest Track Athletes In MAC HistoryDave Wottle and Bob Schul top the list if you don’t count double gold medalist Hayes Jones.
• Recommended Read: Free Coaching Advice Super Coach Dan Pfaff Gives You His 20 Barriers To Championship Performances Pfaff is a genius. Trust us.

Interesting Reads

• Meet The World’s Greatest Backwards Racer – Germany’s Thomas Dold Dold, who also coaches two of Germany’s best female marathoners, “… owns every world record for running backwards from 400m to 10km (with the exception of the 5,000m). His range is incredible: 69.56 for the 400m, 2:31.1 for the 800m and 5:46.59 for the mile. He achieved his latest record – 39:20 for the 10km – in Dresden last year.”
• Aries Merritt Is Already Back Training And says He May Try To Run World Indoors
• Japan Surpasses U.S. As World’s Largest Amateur Marathon Market For 1st Time Ever In a span of a decade, Japan has seen its # of marathon finishers go from 75,000 to nearly 575,000. Great reporting by Brett Larner.
• 2017 World Chief – Sally Bolton – Thinks London 2017 Would Be The Perfect Farewell For Usain Bolt And Jessica Ennis-Hill
• Little-Known Fact: Ryan Hall’s Older Brother Was Born In Australia

Today’s Doping Headlines

• Audio:Adam Nelson Talks About How Dopers Have Damaged His Career And Cost Him ~2 Million Dollars In Appearance Fees / Prize Money Doping also led him to receive his 2004 Olympic gold 9 years later in an airport food court.
• Russian Racewalker Stanislav Emelyanov “Cleared” In Doping Case Apparently his “B” sample came back negative, but the IAAF might still get him as he tried to evade testers. This would be his second ban.
• Molly Huddle Speaks Up For Lifetime Bans; Says She Doesn’t Think Doping Is As Widespread As Some Believe “I feel like there’s sometimes a conspiracy theory that we’re all witnessing it in the warm-up area and avoiding individual offers and things like that. It’s definitely not the case.”
• The Guardian‘s Marina Hyde:“Fifa And IAAF Ride Aboard A Gravy Train Where Normal Rules Do Not Apply” She says there should be “sarcastic air quotes” around “IAAF ethics commission” and “IAAF integrity unit.”
• Wilson Kipsang Claims Athletes Are Now In Position To Work With Athletics Kenya To Tackle Doping We’re sure having (allegedly) corrupt officials like Isaiah Kiplagat out of there won’t hurt things.

LetsSprint.com

• Jamaican Commentator (Jokingly) Claims He Should Be Given Some Credit For Usain Bolt’s Success Because He Bashed Him Back In 2005 This journalist hypothesizes that his criticism of Bolt motivated him to win medals and sets records all these years.
• Lolo Jones And Marquise Goodwin Announced For Millrose Games Jones says she’s shocked she’s ready to compete so soon after having back surgery. Goodwin will race Andre De Grasse in the 60m.
• IAAF “First Impressions” Q&A With Nigeria’s 2013 LJ And 200 Medalist Blessing Okagbare Okagbare shares her life’s firsts including first sport, first race and first date.
• Usain Bolt Says He Wants To Stay Involved In The Sport After Retirement

London Marathon Stacked Once Again

LRCFour Thoughts On The 2016 London Men's Field: Olympic Implications, The Return Of Bekele And Karoki's Debut

LetsNotDope.com

• Seb Coe Knows Some WRs Are Not Legitimate, But Doesn’t Want To Taint Clean Athletes “I can understand the frustration. I know there are records on the book which are a real inhibitor, particularly in some of the female events …”
• European Athletics Vice Pres. Jean Gracia Named Interim IAAF CEO/General Secretary
• Michael Johnson Says IAAF Scandal Is Worse Than FIFA’s Johnson also joined other WR holders by saying he was against the UKA proposal to reset the record books.
• The Independent: “Seb Coe Plays The Victim Just Like His Old Pal Jose Mourinho” At the very least, Coe deserves a ton of criticism for giving the cold shoulder (and worse) to heroes Vitaliy and Yuliya Stepanov as well as ARD journalist Hajo Seppelt.
• London Marathon Promises Its “Toughest Ever” Testing In 2016 The WMM has financed their own out-of-competition testing for their athletes.
• RUSADA Resumes Work With “Some Responsibilities” They can run “education” programs and issues licenses, but can’t conduct their own tests.