March 22, 2016 Homepage Archive

LetsRun.com Goes To Kenya – 2016

LRC ExclusiveWhy Bedan Karoki Is The Favorite At The World Half Champs, Expect Big Years From Asbel Kiprop And Ronald Kwemoi & More News From Our Man On The Ground In Kenya

Our correspondent is on the ground in Kenya for the next six months and he's got the latest scoop on Asbel Kiprop, Ronald Kwemoi and Bedan Karoki as he's been watching races with Renato Canova.

Post-World Indoors News ResultsVideo Interviews

World Indoor HJ Champ Vashti Cunningham Officially Goes Pro With Nike Her father, former NFL great Randall Cunningham said the contract was “very lucrative” and joked about making Vashti get her own house.
Good Read #1:Profile On US Hurdler Nia Ali, Who Defended Her 60H Title This Weekend After Giving Birth 9 Months Ago Ali has had an interesting career as she was a distance runner until senior year of high school, excelled in the HJ and multis in college, is coached by pro hurdler Ryan Wilson, and had her son with Olympic 400H silver medalist Michael Tinsley.
GR #2:Daily Relay Recaps World IndoorsKevin Sully gives a really good rundown of the highs and lows from Portland, both from an athlete perspective and for the presentation of the sport.
GR #3:Alan Abrahamson: “Team Eaton: All That Is Good In Track And Field” Abrahamson says Ashton Eaton and Brianne Thiesen-Eaton are exactly the feel-good story track and field needs right now.
The Denver Post Talks To Boris Berian’s Agent About His Transition From College Dropout To World Champ Keflezighi: “It is an amazing story. It’s like a script from a movie. But it’s real.”
Vin Lananna Thinks World Indoors Was A Step Forward For The Sport Lananna was happy with the reactions to new innovations like the NBA-style intros for finalists, live orchestra medal ceremonies in Courthouse Square and the during-competition music.

Worlds Sunday Non-Distance *Post-Race Interviews

LRC Vashti Cunningham – Randall’s Daughter – Wins World High Jump Title And Announces That She’s Going Pro Cunningham won while not even jumping as high as she did last week at USAs as she was clean on her first four attempts.
*AP Profile Of Randall And Vashti Cunningham Before The HJ Final

LRC The Rest Of The Meet: Marquis Dendy And Omar McLeod Win Their First World Titles And The US Dominates Both 4 X 400s To Finish With Half The Gold Medals At Worlds The US picked up 5 more golds to finish with half of the 26 golds awarded at Worlds.

Sunday Worlds On The Boards

Worlds Saturday Non-D

LRC Michelle Carter Comes Up Totally Clutch, Ashton Eaton Crushes Field Again, Dafne Schippers Is Beaten, And Much MoreMichelle Carter threw an American record in her final throw to get gold in the shot, Ashton Eaton won the heptathlon with ease as Curtis Beach just missed a medal, Barbara Pierre won the 60m, and much more.

Your Worlds Saturday Discussion

Friday At World Indoors

LRCFriday At World Indoors: Trayvon Bromell, Brianne Theisen-Eaton And Brittney Reese Come Up Totally Clutch For Gold, Asafa Powell Does Not, As Nia Ali Repeats In 60H The first night of track action was full of drama as Trayvon Bromell showed he’s clutch and Asafa Powell showed he’s not. On the women’s side of the ledger, Brianne Theisen-Eaton and Brittney Reese came up huge as well for gold. Plus Tom Walsh gave New Zealand its 1st-ever gold!

LRC Men’s 1,500 Prelims: Matt Centrowitz Dazzles As All The Favorites Make Final And Robby Andrews Qualifies EasilyCentro had a big kick in the first heat to get the win in a super-tactical 3:47 while the second heat got off easy as they all basically jogged a 4-minute mile to qualify.

MB: Official World Indoor Live Discussion Thread – Day 2

LRC Friday Early Distance Prelims Recap: Caleb Ndiku Falls And Advances To Final, As American Brenda Martinez, Berian, Sowinski, Ryan Hill And Paul Chelimo Make FinalsWe break down the first track action from World Indoors.

LRCCaleb Ndiku Has A Message For Mo Farah: “All I know is I’m still the guy to watch.”

LRCWorld Record Holders Lavillenie And Suhr Kick Off World Indoors In Impressive FashionIt only took Lavillenie two jumps to wrap up pole vault gold, but that didn’t stop him from entertaining the Portland crowd with three attempts at the the world record. It was an all-American battle for gold on the women’s side as Suhr and Sandi Morris went 1-2 with Suhr setting a Championship record.

LRC The Bigwigs Speak: Trust Is The Word Of The Day For Sebastian Coe; Ashton Eaton Explains Why He Prefers Indoors To Outdoors A beautiful day for the outdoor press conference at World Indoors.

Men’s Previews:

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Your Worlds Friday Discussion

The Robots are Taking Over! We don’t have to measure the long jumps anymore
Iguider looking DOPED TO THE GILLS
Cam Levins goes home devastated
Asafa Powell back on the SAUCE — runs 6.44!! He actually ran it twice before coming up short yet again in the final.
What exactly has Ndiku done since Sopot 2014?

Catching Up With Ben True

LRCAfter Stellar 2015, Ben True Turns His Sights To Bigger Things In 2016

After a fantastic 2015, Ben True is very bullish on 2016 even if he is a little banged up right now. Update: True has withdrawn from this weekend's United Airlines NYC Half but you can still learn about how his off-season is going.

Latest Doping Updates

Several More Russians, Including Three Track Athletes, Test Positive For Meldonium The three track athletes are Russian indoor 5,000 champ Andrey Minzhulin, World University Games 10K silver medalist Gulshat Fazletdinova and steepler Olga Vovk. *BBC
Drug Maker Says Meldonium Can Take Months To Leave The Body There have been more than 100 positive doping tests since the drug was put on the banned list on January 1st.
Brazil Passes Anti-Doping Legislation Just A Day Before WADA Deadline If they hadn’t, this would have been another blow to Rio 2016 as they wouldn’t be able to do drug testing for the Games.
Spain And Mexico Declared Non-Compliant By WADA After Failing To Meet Deadline Ukraine, which was declared non-compliant in November, has had its status restored. Greece, Brazil and France were on a watch list, but made the necessary changes by the deadline.
Thursday At The Latest:CAS To Finally Rule On Six Russian Athletes Who Were Given “Selective” Bans By The Russian Federation The IAAF appealed their original suspensions as they conveniently let the Russians keep their medals from major championships.
Italy’s Olympic Committee Acquits Eight Athletes, Including Euro Marathon Champ Daniele Meucci, Of Evading Drug Tests In December, 26 Italian athletes were accused of evading drug tests. The cases for the other 18 remain open.

Weekend Road Action

Kenya’s Sammy Kitwara (59:47) And Ethiopia’s Ruti Aga (69:16) Win Lisbon Half Marathon For the men, Kenneth Kipkemoi was 2nd (60:05) while Aga beat Wude Ayalew (69:23) and former 10,000 world champ Linet Masai (69:33).
Kelkile Gezahegn Woldaregay (2:10:54) And Liu Ruihuan (2:26:13) Win Chongqing Marathon In China
Kenya’s William Chebon Chebor (2:13:05) And Ukraine’s Olha Kotovska (2:36:38) Win New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon
Kenya’s Kipkogey Shadrack Wins The Jerusalem Marathon In 2:16:33
*Jerusalem Marathon Race Review
Ben Sathre (50:59) And Lauren Rice (60:19) Win Hot Dash 10 Mile In Minnesota

While You Were Sleeping

LRC Molly Huddle Wins 2016 NYC Half In Controversial Fashion (67:41 CR), Stephen Sambu Rolls In 61:16 The women’s race was super-tight and people are wondering if Huddle should have been given the DQ. Decide for yourself.
*MB: Molly Huddle Interference? Should Huddle have been DQd for flailing her arms out at United Airlines NYC Half?

LRC EPO Cheat Wilson Loyanane Erupe Wins $180,000 At Seoul Marathon As Patrick Makau Drops Out And European Record Barely Survives Kenya’s Rose Chelimo won the women’s race in a new personal best of 2:24:14.

NCAA Photo Galleries (1,659 Photos!) Day 1 GalleryDay 2 Gallery

USA Indoor Photo Gallery

2016 World IndoorsResultsTV/Streaming InfoEntries Video Interviews Contest IAAF Event-By-Event Recaps

MB: Official Day 4 World Indoor Championships Discussion Thread

LRCCentrowitz Caps Perfect Season With Gold In Men’s 1,500 (updated) Centro was magnificent, Nick Willis‘ run for glory ended up with bronze, as Robby Andrews was 4th and the Africans were left off the medal stand.
*Salazar Says Centrowitz Executed Race Plan Perfectly

LRC USA’s Ryan Hill Gets Silver As Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha Wins And Arrives As Mo Farah’s Potential #1 Rival (updated) Hill was 4th coming off the final turn but he ended up getting the silver!
*Oregonian On Hill’s Silver

LRC Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba Sprints To Gold In Women’s 800 As Ajee Wilson Has To Settle For Silver Wilson had the lead early, but she wasn’t ready for an aggressive move by Niyonsaba, who claimed her first global medal. Kenya’s Margaret Wambui was third and the U.S.’s Laura Roesler fourth.

LRC Women’s 3k Goes According To Form: Genzebe Dibaba Dominates, Defar Gets Silver, Shannon Rowbury Bronze At 2016 World Indoors Dibaba is so good she said this about a field that included Meseret Defar, “It was easy for me because the field was not that strong.”

Saturday World Indoors

LRC Boris Berian’s Gutsy Run Gets 800m Gold At World Indoors 2016; Bronze For Erik Sowinski Berian was fortunate to make the final as he ran tactically. Tonight, he went for it – big time. And got gold!!
*MB: Boris MF Berian is the World Champ!! Wire to Wire!!!

LRC W1,500 Sifan Hassan Holds Off Dawit Seyaum To Earn First Global Gold In 4:04.96 And Lead Ethiopian-Born 1-2-3-4 SweepWith Genzebe Dibaba in the 3,000, Hassan had the opportunity to shine and delivered a stellar last lap to hold off the 19-year-old Seyaum for gold. American Brenda Martinez was the top non-Ethiopian-born finisher in 5th.