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Quote Of The Day

“No. I don’t think so at all. As a US athlete I know ‘Support your team-mates’ and that. But my team-mates are clean athletes. … Excuses are like – well, you know what the saying is. Everyone’s got one, I think you are 100 percent held accountable for what you put in your body. You can’t say ‘Oh someone gave me a massage’ or ‘Oh I didn’t know.’ They have a list of what you can and cannot take. These people just want to play the naive card and we’re too old for that. We’re not in pre-school. Sorry. … I don’t care if that’s a bold statement, it’s true.”

– Alysia Montano talking about how she doesn’t think Justin Gatlin or Tyson Gay (or anyone else with a doping past) should be allowed to compete at the Olympics.

Both 2016 NCAAs And 2016 USAs Are This Week, So We’re Starting Our Previews Early

LRCNCAA DMR Preview:The Deepest Men’s Field In History Is Led By Oklahoma State Six of the 12 fastest men’s teams in NCAA history will compete on Friday. Will they be good enough to hold off Stanford and Washington and their 3:53 anchor legs, Sean McGorty and Izaic Yorks? Will Oregon dare to run Edward Cheserek just 30 minutes after the 5k?

LRC NCAA DMR Preview: The Women’s Race Should Be A Stanford-Georgetown DuelStanford and Georgetown already raced once this year and just .19 separated. They are the class of the field and should battle it out again on Friday.

Previous M 800 *W 800 *W Mile *M Mile *W 3K/5K *M 3k/5k *Men’s Team Analysis*Women’s Team Analysis

Register-Guard:Oregon Women Looking To Re-Start The Winning Streak Which Was Broken At NCAA Indoors Last Year Their win streak ended at 5 last year when they finished second.
Updated Rankings:Oregon Men Narrowly Favored For Third Straight NCAA Title It is predicted to be a close team battle with Arkansas and Florida.
Florida Women Predicted #1 In Updated DI Rankings They have a slight edge on Oregon and Georgia.

Two More Bite The Dust?

LRCShannon Rowbury Shares Her Thoughts On 2012 Olympic 1,500 Final – “These Cheaters Rob People Like Me And My Competitors Of Medals” 4 of the 6 women who finished ahead of the American record holder at 1,500 at the 2012 Olympics have been linked to doping.

Turkey’s 2012 Olympic 1,500 Silver Medalist Gamze Bulut And World Junior Marathon Recorder Holder Tsegaye Mekonnen Reportedly Fail Drug Tests Bulut, who has raced sparingly since 2012, has apparently been caught by a radical biological passport profile. Ethiopia’s Mekonnen is famous for his 2:04:32 debut as a 19-year-old at the 2014 Dubai Marathon.
*MB:2012 London Olympic 1500 silver/gold medalist Gamze Bulut being investigated for ABP abnormalities

LetsJump.com

Good Read:Milesplit Profile On High Schooler Vashti Cunningham, Who At 18 Years Old Is The Favorite For US Indoors This Weekend And To Make The Olympics Cunningham is the daughter of NFL legend Randall Cunningham, who also coaches her. Vashti has cleared 1.95m this season and might go pro as early as this spring.
Video Documentary:“Leap Year: A Look At Collegiate Jumping” The 63-minute video follows the long and triple jumpers at the University of New Mexico through the 2014-2015 season.
IAAF First Impressions Q&A With US Pole Vaulter Demi Payne +1 for the the Sports Gene. Payne’s dad was a 5.86m pole vaulter (former collegiate record holder) and her mom a basketball player for Baylor.
Poland Names Its Team For World Indoors, Led By Defending HJ Champ Kamila Licwinkio Licwinko actually tied for the gold 2 years ago with Russia’s Mariya Kuchina. But she won’t have to compete against Kuchina this time thanks to the Russian ban.
Ashton Eaton Will Focus On The 60m And LJ At US Indoors This Weekend

Latest On The Abeba Aregawi Doping Story

Recommended Read:Swedish Coach Per Synnerman Says Swedish Officials Need To Take Responsibility For The Abeba Aregawi Situation(translated) Synnerman says those in charge fought for her citizenship despite warning signs like her “sham” marriage because they wanted medals. Now they want to wash their hands of it without taking any blame.
Authorities After Former Turkish Man Who Is Suspected As The Person Who Sold Abeba Aregawi Drugs In EthiopiaMetin Sazak is a former Turkish distance runner, now coach and allegedly drug dealer.

Non-Distance Action

Teenage Pole Vaulter Eliza McCartney Sets Oceanian Record With 4.80m At New Zealand Champs It is the best mark ever by a teenager and 11th on the all-time lists. In the shot put, Tom Walsh beat out rival Jacko Gill (21.11m to 20.23m).
Renaud Lavillenie Vaults World-Leading 6.03m At The Jablonec Indoor Gala In Czech Republic
Valerie Adams Wins Her 14th NZ National Shot Put Title World University Games champion Angie Petty took both the 1,500 and 800.
Richard Kilty Bounces Back From False Start At GB Champs To Run The Second-Fastest 60m Of The Year He won the Jablonec Indoor Gala in 6.50 seconds.

Talent Doesn’t Go Away – Even When You Are 76

Ed Burke Sets WR At USATF Masters Champs Burke, who is famous for being the US flagbearer in 1984 at age 44, is still going strong at age 76. *2016 USATF National Masters Indoor Results

Sprint News

Doping Updates: Aregawi Trying To Get Off On A Technicality

Abeba Aregawi And Manager Jos Hermens Trying To Save Her With A Loophole(translated) Her positive test came from January 12th and meldonium (the drug she tested positive for) was only banned on January 1st, so they are saying she could have taken it before it was banned. However, one expert says it wouldn’t stay in the system that long. Also interesting, she apparently had a 3-day warning that the out-of-competition test was coming.
Blame The Foreigners:Swedish Journalists Visit Ethiopia To Investigate: Source Reveals Several Russian And Ukrainian Doctors Have Been Arrested For Drug Distribution(translated) It sounds like the Ethiopian federation is going the Kenyan route and trying to blame foreigners for the current drug issues.
UKA Asking Athletes To Sign A “Drug Vow” Ahead Of World Indoors By signing, they agree that they “will never represent their country again if they take drugs”.
UKA Head Neil Black Says They’re “Really Comfortable” With British Stars Training In Ethiopia In Spite Of Recent Doping Scandals Black said that Mo Farah and the other athletes who trained there for 6 weeks this winter were “fully supervised.”
Kenya’s Proposed New Anti-Doping Law Delayed After It Was Due To Be Presented On Monday The law will criminalize doping and set up funding for the new Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya. WADA has given them an April 5th deadline to get it straightened out.
Rio Organizing Committee President Insists That Drug-Testing Lab Will Be Operational In Time For The Olympics Brazil’s lab lost its accreditation in 2013 after failing to meet standards.

NYC Says Goodbye To The Diamond League

The New York Diamond League Is No More:Rabat Meeting Will Replace New York City In Diamond League Series The adidas GP has opted out of hosting a DL meet and will now be replaced by Rabat, giving Africa its first DL meet.
Global Athletics And Marketing Statement: The adidas GP Will Be Replaced With A Street Competition Event GA&M president Mark Wetmore: “It’s been a great run on Randall’s Island … we believe that changing our focus to a street meet is one way to make the event attractive to a younger audience.”
MB: Diamond League replaces New York with Rabat, Morocco

2016 NCAA Entries – We Tell You Who Gets In And Who Doesn’t

LRC Observations On The Men’s NCAA Indoors Entries: Can Anyone Prevent An Oregon Three-Peat? It’s going to be hard to beat Oregon once again.

LRCObservations On The Women’s NCAA Indoors Entries: Florida Leads The Way; Multi-Event Stars Akela Jones & Kendell Williams Will Battle All Meet Long Only in a sport like track and field, can a team like Florida, which got killed at SECs, be the favorite at NCAAs.

LRC 2016 NCAA Entries – What Did It Take To Get Into NCAAs? How Does It Compare To Past Years? Find out what it will take to get into NCAAs and who is running what here.

*Update To The Women’s Bowerman Watch ListMolly Seidel and Raevyn Rogers are the two distance runners to make the list.

US Women’s Distance News

Former High School Star And Oregon All-American Nicole Blood Hasn’t Given Up Her Olympic Dreams Post-collegiate injuries derailed her and she quit the sport, but now she’s back living in Oregon and says she’s running the best workouts of her life.
Good Read:Phoebe Wright Blogs About Eating Disorders Wright analyzes how eating disorders can “attack” a person and become part of their identity and suggests what they need to overcome it is “love.”
Q&A With Sarah Brown On Training Through Pregnancy As She Approaches Her Due Date This Month Brown talks positively about the training she has been able to do while pregnant and is optimistic about being ready for the OT.
Alexi Pappas Talks To Runner’s World About Decision To Run For Greece “It comes down to, why am I doing this sport? … It is not a decision that happened overnight – it was a very thoughtful process …”
Q&A With 2:35 Marathoner Polina Carlson Carlson is Russian, but has been living in the US for almost half her life and is hoping to be a US citizen by 2017.

Drug News: Abeba Aregawi Facing Doping Ban

Aregawi Over Simpson at 2013 Worlds LRC Jenny Simpson’s Take On Abeba Aregawi Testing Positive: “What has been announced today is far from justice served.” (link fixed) News broke today that 2013 World 1,500m champ Abeba Aregawi’s “A” sample has tested positive. We have the reaction from 2013 Worlds silver medalist Jenny Simpson.
*MB:Epic fail: Abeba aregawi tested positive for doping

More To Come? Ethiopian Anti-Doping Official Admits That Nine Athletes Are Currently Under Investigation He says that five of them are “top athletes.”
Aregawi Reportedly Tested Positive In An Out-Of-Competition Urine Test In Ethiopia In January
They Start ‘Em Young In Russia:17-Year-Old Russian Hurdler Maxim Kosyukov Banned For Steroid Use He tested positive back in June after winning the Russian 110H national youth title.

Dreams Do Become Reality

LRC Meet The Most Interesting Man In NCAA Running: He’s 5’9″, Can Dunk A Basketball And In One Year Has Gone From 4:17 To The #3 Time In NCAA History: Meet Oklahoma State’s Josh ThompsonJosh Thompson of Oklahoma State has a unique and cool story.

Double Standard Or Just Business As Usual?

LRCUnbelievable: The 2016 NYRR Millrose Games Wasn't A USATF-Sanctioned Meet

Just over a month ago, USATF told us that Rachel McFarlane couldn't run in the Olympic Marathon Trials as her qualifier didn't come in a USATF-sanctioned event, even if we paid the sanctioning fee ourselves. A month later, someone failed to secure a sanction for the crown jewel of the US Indoor season - the NYRR Millrose Games - but all of the marks will count.

Distance Stuff

Jerry Schumacher Reveals He Had A Slight Hesitation When Shalane Flanagan Wanted To Join His Training Group As At The Time It Was All Male Schumacher: “In the first couple months Shalane contacted us. I was like, ummmm. … But it worked out well.”
Evan Jager Thinks Tactics Will Be Crucial To Give Him A Chance To Medal Against The Kenyans In The Steeple At Rio 2016 Jager will be work on those tactics at USAs this weekend.
The Daily Relay: “Whose Career Would You Rather Have, Meb Or Rupp? Spoiler Alert: They go with Meb.
Mo Farah Officially Announced In UK Squad For World Half Marathon Champs On March 26th Farah will face a stacked field which will include Geoffrey Kamworor and Zersenay Tadese. *Video Interview With Farah
Genzebe Dibaba Will Only Run The 3,000 At World Indoors

Russian-Related Doping Headlines

Maria Sharapova Tests Positive For Meldonium, The Same Drug Which Caught Abeba Aregawi She admitted to taking the drug since 2006, saying she didn’t know it was banned and had it prescribed by a doctor. The fallout has been quick as Nike already “suspended its relationship” with her, but her lawyer is hoping that she won’t get any sanction.
*MB:Sharapova busted for meldonium
*MB:What do we know about meldonium (drug Aregawi was busted for)?
UKA Chairman Ed Warner Says Seb Coe Will “Face Ridicule” If He Lifts Russian Ban Before Rio He wants the IAAF to rule Russia out of the Games this week and “end the uncertainty.”
WADA “Dismayed” By Latest Doping Allegations Against Russia In New ARD Report WADA president Craig Reedie: “At a time when trust in sport is wafer-thin these troubling assertions will do little to reinforce confidence in the Russian anti-doping system.”
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko Says Russia Is “Doing Everything Possible” And Will Investigate Latest Report Elsewhere, he’s quoted dismissing the ARD report as a political attack.
IAAF Task Force Investigating Latest Allegations
*IAAF Task Force Will Address IAAF Council On Friday

The Russian Doping Trilogy

Third ARD Report Says Russia’s Efforts To Clean Up Doping Have Been “Mere Lip Service” As Culture Of Doping Continues Undercover journalists found a banned coach still working with athletes and a Russian official selling drugs. It also shared documents claiming that a newly elected leader of RUSADA previously gave athletes advanced warnings about drug tests.
IAAF Statement “Thanking” ARD And Hajo Seppelt And Saying It Will Look Into The Latest Accusations The IAAF/Seb Coe have come a long way from accusing ARD of “declaring war” on the sport.
AP Article With Some More Specifics
Russian Whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova Wants To Compete At The Olympics Under The Olympic Flag Stepanova and her husband fled Russia and have applied for political asylum in Canada. The IAAF will consider her request at a meeting this week.
The Guardian’s Sean Ingle Argues For Keeping Russia Banned From The Rio Games He also thinks the situations in Kenya and Ethiopia should be “more in the firing line.”
Banned Russian Coach Vladimir Kazarin Denies The Accusations And Accuses USA Of Using Political Influence Against Russia “The USA controls politics and sport. … If we are banned, then all these medals will go to the USA and Great Britain.”

Distance: David Rudisha Opens His Season

David Rudisha Wins Season Opener In 1:44.78 20-year-old Aussie Luke Matthews had a massive PR to finish 2nd in 1:45.16. Two OQs in the women’s steeple plus a Ryan Gregson win in the 1,500. *Results*Race Videos
*IAAF Melbourne Recap After winning NZ champs on Friday, Tom Walsh flew to Australia on Saturday to win the SP here in 20.87m.
Lucas Rotich Wins Lake Biwa Marathon With 2:09:11 In Warm Conditions In the final men’s Olympic selection race, three Japanese men went sub-2:10, led by Hisanori Kitajima (2nd – 2:09:16). Yuki Kawauchi finished back in 7th (2:11:53).
*IAAF Recap Kitajima: “I like warmer weather so today’s weather did not bother me. Please note that I am sending this message to the selector.”
Donnie Cowart And Grace Morgan Win Pan AM XC ChampionshipsMax King was 3rd. *Full Results

Big Doping News

Swedish Paper Says Jos Hermens’ Group May Have Made Up Stuff About Ukrainian Doctor Being Found In Ethiopia – In Reality, Paper Says Hermens Was Employing A Doctor Who Thinks EPO Should Be Legal
Fascinating Read:What Is Meldonium/Mildronate – The Drug Aregawi Was Busted For? The Latvian-manufactured heart drug that was only banned starting January 1 has already resulted in two huge positives. A LetsRun.com reader explains what the drug – which isn’t approved in the US – is and does.
3 More Ethiopians Bite The Dust And Are Suspended – 1 Appears To Be 2:09 Marathoner Sintayehu Mergia In December, he went from 2:12 to 2:09 in the marathon at age 30.

Worlds News

IAAF’s World Indoor Stats Book / Media Guide Is Now Out Read it for free.
Ukrainian Team Named For World Indoors 2012 silver medalist Nataliya Lupu could be a factor in the 800.
Forget About The Olympics – It’s Only 500 Days Until The 2017 Worlds In London

Ultra Running News

Worth A Watch: Trailer For New Film On 89-Year-Old Ultra Runner Bob Hayes“I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to do it, but I just keep going because if I stop, that’ll be the end and they’ll haul me off through the pearly gates.”
UK Ultra Runner Robbie Britton Writes About Running And Winning The 230K Beyond The Ultimate Ice Ultra In Arctic Sweden “If you sweat it freezes to you. A fine balance has to be found by creating enough heat to stay warm but not too warm. Basically it is a Arctic strip tease…”
*LRCWinter Running Archives
Satirical Racing Video Goes Viral, Nearly Costs Arizona 50-Miler Its PermitJesse Weber‘s video of him racing in jean shorts and drinking beer got attention from Maxim, Fox Sports and Yahoo, but ended up offending the Navajo community whose land he ran through.

Other News: Track Well Represented In This Year’s Laureus Award Nominees

Usain Bolt, Genzebe Dibaba, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Among 2016 Laureus Award Nominees
*Jessica Ennis Nominated In The “Comeback Of The Year” Category
With Just Under 500 Days To Go Until The 2017 London World Championships, “Track Transformation” In The Olympic Stadium Has Begun The track surface is being replaced and should be finished in time for events this summer. *IAAF
RIP:US Distance Coach Dick Brown Passes Away At 78Suzy Favor Hamilton and doper Mary Decker Slaney are among athletes he coached.
IAAF “Legends Of Athletics” Interview With Four-Time World 100H Champ Allen Johnson
Slovenia’s HJ Olympian Rozle Prezelj Elected New Chairman Of IAAF Athletes’ CommissionPaula Radcliffe is vice chairwoman.

Mostly Negative Olympic Headlines *All Rio Coverage

NY Times:Officials Try To Ease Concerns Facing Rio Games Construction delays, polluted water, worker disputes, ticket delays and the Zika virus have contributed to a negative vibe around Rio.
Rio 2016 Admit They Have Not Done Enough Work To Sell Paralympic Tickets With At Least 85% Still Unsold
Thomas Bach Says IOC Is Being Proactive In Fighting Corruption Apparently the IOC asked French investigators to share their evidence indicating possible corruption with the 2016 and 2020 bids, but haven’t received anything.
AP:Less Than Half The Tickets Sold For Rio
End On A + Note: Team Of Refugees Will Compete At Rio Olympics Under The Olympic Flag So far 43 potential Olympians have been identified from refugee camps and as many as 10 of them could be selected.

Doping News: Another Major Drug Bust

2015 Tokyo Marathon Champ Endeshaw Negesse Fails Drug Test The ~~2:04~~ Ethiopian marathoner failed a test for meldonium, the same substance as Abeba Aregawi.
*MB: An other Ethiopian doping case…
David Rudisha Talks About The Kenyan Doping Problem And The Possibility Of Breaking His Own 800m World Record “These young athletes who are desperate to make money, to win races, they end up being fools and getting into these drugs.” *AP Article
Abeba Aregawi Denies Intentionally Doping, Saying Through Her Agent, “I don’t know how this came into my body.” Her agent says that Aregawi looked him in the eye and said she wasn’t doping.
Court Of Arbitration For Sport (CAS) To Replace IOC In Handling All Doping Cases At Olympic Games CAS will control all anti-doping decisions including handing out sanctions. This is a positive step away from having biased national federations handling all doping cases/bans.

Justin Gatlin / Dennis Mitchell Making Waves

Dennis Mitchell Steps Down As US Relay Coach Due To New Rules To Prevent Conflicts Of Interest Mitchell coaches Justin Gatlin, who will almost certainly be in the relay pool. Nice to see USATF being proactive about preventing controversy. We’re happy to see Mitchell out of the job, but mostly for other reasons.
*LRC Archives:Convicted Doper Dennis Mitchell Is Now The Paid Head USA Relays Coach Hired By USATF National Office Without Input Of USATF High Performance Committee
UK Headline:“Justin Gatlin Clocks 9.45 Seconds On Japanese Game Show By Openly Cheating” This older video of Gatlin breaking the WR with huge fans at his back has resurfaced and is making worldwide headlines.
*MB:Gatlin runs 9.45!!!

More Distance Results From The Weekend

Wilfred Kimitei (60:38) And Valentine Kipketer (69:05) Get Victories At First Lady’s Half Marathon In Kenya Both races were close as they won by two and four seconds respectively.
Kenya’s Cyprian Kotut (61:04) And Ethiopia’s Dibabe Kuma (69:19) Win Paris Half Marathon
Ryunosuke Hayashi Wins Japan National University Men’s Half Marathon Title He ran 63:07 to beat two competitors by only 1 second. The top 7 were separated by only 7 seconds.
98-Year-Old Sets World Indoor 1500 Record With 16:32Orville Rogers now has every indoor record from 800 up in the 95-99 age-group. *Race Video

Financial/Legal News

Oregon Lawmakers Approve Hotel Tax Increase That Could Help Subsidize 2021 Eugene World Champs The tax increase passed with two narrow, last-minute votes could mean a $25 million state subsidy for Eugene 2021.
Nick Symmonds Lawsuit Against USATF/USOC Could Have Implications In Canada Apparently it isn’t just the US where national federations try to use Rule 50 to create a monopoly on advertising at championships.

Is Russia Doing Anything To Change? Did Nike Bribe Athletics Kenya Officials?

German Broadcaster ARD Still Going Strong, Will Air New Documentary Tonight Which “Casts Doubt Over Russia’s Willingness To Clean Up Drug Problem” The video reportedly shows a banned coach still working with athletes and a Russian official selling drugs.
NY Times Report On Kenyan Officials Taking $500,000 In Bribes From Nike Nike paid AK a “commitment bonus” as part of their sponsorship deal, but insiders allege Nike meant it as a bribe to the three officials who ended up pocketing it.
*MB: NY Times: Kenyan officials being investigated for taking $500,000 in Nike money
adidas Denies Ending IAAF Sponsorship Deal Over Doping Scandal They say they haven’t terminated their contract and will “watch very closely” what the IAAF does about doping.
Tokyo 2020 Chief Confident Organisers Will Overcome “Hurdles” Amid Corruption ProbeToshiro Muto: “Tokyo 2020 considers that the allegation is beyond our understanding.”

Nick Willis Opens Up On Porn

Nick Willis After Winning 2013 Fifth Avenue Mile Nick Willis Talks About Porn Addiction & Being Porn Free For 2.5 Years and How It’s Helped His Marriage Nick’s post on Facebook is getting a lot of press.
*Editorial: “It takes guts to do what he has done – not just in being public about it, but in facing his own fragility.”
*Discuss

In The USA

Five Masters World Sprint Records Go Down At Day 2 Of USATF Masters Indoor ChampsOrville Rogers became the first M90 athlete in history to run the 1,500m, finishing in 16:32.19.
Indiana Tech Men And Wayland Baptist Women Win NAIA National Titles

$200,106 LRC Running Warehouse Trials Prediction Contest Recap

LRCGirl Power! A 13-Year-Old Wins LRC Running Warehouse Marathon Trials Prediction Contest There’s a new generation in the running ranks. 13-year-old Kate Kowalik won our contest and her 11-year-old sister finished in the top 10. Take that, LRC Nation.

Distance News Of Note

Upcoming Action

March 26th:World Record Holder Zersenay Tadese Joins Field For World Half Marathon Championships With Mo Farah and Geoffrey Kamworor previously announced, this is shaping up to be an amazing race.
April 10th:2:05 Man Levy Omari Matebo Vs. Robert Chemosin (59:19 Half) Will Highlight Vienna City Marathon
May 7th:Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Will Face World 200 Silver Medalist Elaine Thompson At Kingston World Challenge Meet

The End Of The Road For Blade Runner:South African Court Rejects Oscar Pistorius’ Right To Appeal Murder Conviction Pistorius will now face re-sentencing and faces up to 15 years in prison.

Week That Was

LRCWeek That Was: A U.S. Star Shares Their "Red Flags For Doping," Penn State's Latest Mid-D Star, Super-Fast NCAA Times (2 X 3:53), And Two Distance Schools Win Big Conference Crowns

Great collegiate action, some big doping news, and a US pro's "red flag" guide to dopers.

World Indoors Is Right Around The Corner

Really Cool:Live Webcam Shows The Portland Indoor Track Being Constructed If you have a week to kill, you can watch the whole thing come together from start to finish. Less time on your hands, just fast forward and watch it in fast motion. *IAAF Link
Good Read:SPIKES: In From The Cold: After Two Decades, Indoor Track Has Returned To OregonVin Lananna: “Hope is cheap. We try to take hope and turn it into tangible results. We stick to it until it connects. Not every idea is a good one. But we’re not afraid to think big.”
SPIKES Looks Back At 7 Unusual Indoor World Records Do you know what the men’s indoor marathon record is? You’re probably not surprised to hear that Michael Wardian holds it.
Today’s History Lesson:SPIKES Remembers Eight Indoor LegendsEamonn Coghlan, Marcus O’Sullivan and Maria Mutola make their list.
Ashton Eaton Will Compete In US Champs In The 60, 60H And LJ*Full USAs Entry Lists
World 1,500 Bronze Medalist Sifan Hassan And 200m World Champ Dafne Schippers Lead Dutch Team For Portland
Renaud Lavillenie Leads French Team Of 9 For World Indoors
Germany Will Send Young Team Of 12
Defending 400m Champ Pavel Maslak Leads Czech Team

Previous NCAA News

How Does Sean McGorty’s 3:53 Compare With The Best 1,500/Mile Times In Stanford History? He ran the fastest mile indoors or out, but converted to the 1,500, he’s still behind a few guys.
Arkansas And Oregon Men Neck-And-Neck Ahead Of Crowded DI National Team Race Updated rankings show a very tight race going into NCAAs.
Oregon, Florida And Georgia Top Updated Women’s DI Rankings Another close one.
Interesting Stats:How Do NCAA Football Players Fare In Track And Field? Oregon hurdler Devon Allen stands out, but there are football players in the distance events too. Check out how fast they run.

More Olympic Corruption?

French Police Widen Corruption Investigation Into 2016 And 2020 Olympic Bids Leaked emails show that Lamine and Papa Diack might have been involved in helping to bribe IOC members.
The Guardian:Inquiry Into Rio And Tokyo Olympic Bids Set To Repon Many Old Wounds Is this going to be a repeat of the 1998 Salt Lake City Olympic scandal?
IOC Claim “No Evidence” To Support Suggestions Of Corruption In 2016 And 2020 Olympic Bid Campaigns

Conference Champs Central Live Results:Big EastACCMPFSSECBig Ten Big 12 Ivy/Heps *All NCAA

Big East: *Results
Angel Piccirillo Breaks 1,000m Collegiate Record With 2:40.82
MB:Big East DMR-Men There was fast DMR action as Georgetown ran 9:28.91 to beat out Villanova (9:29.17).
Missouri Freshman Kahmari Montgomery Wins 400m With Top-10 Ranking Montgomery won in 45.78.
Villanova Men Win 3rd Straight Indoor Title Villanova got victories from Jordan Williamsz (mile) and Pat Tiernan (3K/5K).
Marquette Women Win Team Title Georgetown’s Katrina Coogan won the 3,000 in 9:07.44.

ACC: *Results*Meet Central
Miami Women, Syracuse Men Win ACC ChampsMolly Seidel and Justyn Knight both got 5K/3K double victories.
Friday Replay*Day 1 Recap
MB:Molly Seidel jogs a 15:19 at ACCs #5 all-time in the NCAA.
MB:Justyn Knight 14:01.70 Knight beat out Thomas Curtin by .08.
MB: Henry Wynne dusts Justyn Knight in DMR
MB:Virginia Tech a non qualifying 13th for DMR

MPFS:*Results*Meet Central
MB:Izaic Yorks (Washington) & Sean McGorty (Stanford) Run 3:53!
*GoHuskies.com:Izaic Yorks Runs #3 Fastest Mile Time In NCAA History (Oversize Track)(Includes race video)
*GoStanford.com:“Shocking Mile For Sean McGorty”
MB:Colorado’s new indoor facility paying off at MPSF In the 3Ks, Pierce Murphy (7:51.51) and Connor Winter (7:51.85) went 1-2 and Erin Clark won in 9:08.
Oregon’s Devon Allen Wins MPSF 60H, Breaking Ashton Eaton’s Facility Record With 7.60 Seconds
Register-Guard: Mission Accomplished For UO Women At MPSF Meet
USC Men Win Mountain Pacific Title
R-G:Oregon Men’s DMR Qualifies For NCAAs With 9:28 Victory Washington’s Aaron Nelson won the men’s 5K in 13:49.93.
*MB:Ducks Men Nab #10 Qualifier for NCAA DMR Last Night late

SEC: *Results*Meet Website*Friday Replay*Saturday Replay
MB:Donavan Brazier Wins 800 In 1:46.08Andres Arroyo (1:46.20) and Hector Hernandez (1:46.32) were a close 2-3.
*Texas A&M Recap:Brazier Breaks 26-Year-Old Meet Record
MB: Ole Miss Cleans Up Distance Events
Arkansas Men And Women Sweep SEC Indoor Champs
Day 1:Arkansas Men, Georgia Women Lead

Big Ten:*Results*Meet Central
*Nebraska Takes Big 10 Men’s Title Penn State freshman Isaiah Harris won the 800 in 1:46.24; Mason Ferlic to0k the 5K in 13:50.
*Michigan Women Win Big 10 ChampsErin Finn double backed from her 3K win with a 15:37 victory in the 5K
*Wisconsin Men, Penn State Women Lead After Day 1 3K victories went to Michigan’s Erin Finn (9:08) and Wisconsin’s Morgan McDonald (8:03).

Big 12: *Results*Meet Website
Texas’ Zack Bilderback Runs 45.27 Seconds, Breaking Jeremy Wariner’s 18-Year-Old Meet Record The time puts Bilderback #2 on the world list for this year.
Oklahoma State Men And Texas Women Win Big 12 Champs On the men’s side it came down to the last event with OSU beating Texas by 1.5 points. OSU racked up quite a few points in the 3K where they took five out of the top six spots. Texas’ Ryan Crouser tied Ryan Whiting‘s collegiate indoor shot put record with 71 feet 3 1/2 inches.
Video Highlights:*Saturday*Friday
Day 1 Full Recap OSU’s Cerake Geberkidane won a close 5K in 14:08.55 as .42 of a second separated the top 3.