– Eliud Kipchoge talking about how he blames the short-sighted pursuit of money for the recent doping scandals in Kenya.
LRC Week That Was: More Madness From The World Half Champs, Colleen De Reuck Still Has It, Some US Road Action And Should The IAAF Change The World Track Champs? We tell you everything going on in the running world, including Allyson Felix being on a Wheaties box.
Men’s 10k on prime time. Can they please do the same at the Olympics?
Good Read:Ben True Started Dating His Wife, Professional Triathlete Sarah True, In Part Thanks To A Broken Toe Which Forced Him To Cross Train With Her The Trues explain the pros and cons of being married to a fellow pro endurance athlete.
Molly Huddle A Top Story On Deadspin:“If You See Something, Say Something. Unless It’s About A Fellow American” The writer doesn’t think Huddle should have been so indignant about people questioning whether she should have been DQed at the NYC Half.
*MB: Molly Huddle Interference? Should Huddle have been DQd for flailing her arms out?
You Won’t Be Seeing The Alternative New Zealand National Flag In Rio Many athletes were behind the change in the NZ flag since theirs is often confused with Australia, but the vote was 56.6% for the original flag.
First Impressions Q&A With Greek Pole Vaulter And Stanford Alum Ekaterini Stefandidi Stefanidi talks about her first coach, first competition, first injury and other random things.
LRC WTW: World Indoor CliffsNotes, Should Molly Huddle Have Been DQed?, Duane Solomon, Chanelle Price & Raevyn Rogers Make News Outdoors, And The “Robots” In The Long Jump Pit We look back at World Indoors, but there was news made outdoors and on the roads as well, plus the “robots” in the long jump.
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.
Recommended Read:Take An Inside Look At The “No-Frills” Kenyan Training Camp Where Champions Eliud Kipchoge And Stephen Kiprotich Live And Train Kipchoge and Kiprotich have the money to live a fancy, modern lifestyle, but choose to live in bare bones conditions, sharing small rooms with other runners and doing their share of communal chores as their optimal training environment.
LRC What About The Sport? Big Praise For Mo Farah; The IAAF And Abbott World Marathon Majors Needs To Improve Their BroadcastsHow can we improve our sport? By taking one little step after another.
LRC A Legend In The Making: Geoffrey Kamworor Dethrones Mo Farah Despite Falling And Getting Trampled At World Half Marathon Championships This race more than lived up to its hype thanks to a terrible fall at the start. That didn’t stop Geoffrey Kamworor from defeating Mo Farah.
LRC 22-Year-Old Peres Jepchirchir Arrives On The Scene As World Half Marathon Champion And Rio Medal Contender At 10,000 As The Kenyans Dominate The US women, led by top-15 showings from Janet Cherobon-Bawcom and Sara Hall, were 5th.
US Junior Heptathlon Champ Ashlee Moore Leaves Oregon Moore has moved home to Arizona and is training for the OT.
Court Of Arbitration For Sport Says Russia’s Selective Doping Bans For 6 Medalists Were Absurd – Yuliya Zaripova Will Lose 2011 Steeple Gold, Sergey Kirdyapkin Will Lose 2012 Olympics 50k Gold This isn’t a new case; it’s just that when Russia banned the athletes they conveniently banned them avoiding certain dates to allow them to keep their medals. *Full CAS Decision
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.”
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.
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!
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.
Track Officials In Ohio Struggling To Find Somewhere To Purchase Blank Cartridges For Their Starting Pistols Apparently manufacturers aren’t concerned with making blanks because track officials/coaches are the only people who want to buy them.
One Ethiopian runner is dead, another is in critical condition after a truck plowed them over on a training run on Saturday. Help them now. *Donate here.
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.
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.
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.
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