June 21, 2016 Homepage Archive

Archived Homepage For June 21, 2016

Quote Of The Day

David Torrence: “He was like, ‘Hey David, you should really reconsider taking these vitamin injections, it’s really going to help you.’ I was like, ‘Can I just take it orally, I’ll be more comfortable with some sort of supplement I can take – magnesium, potassium, whatever,’ and he’s like, ‘No, you have to take it with a needle because you get this flush reaction that you can only get with the concentration going directly into you with a syringe.'”

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Hazma Driouch: “He (Aden) would call me into his room – always just me and him – to give me injections of around 5ml three times a week. When I asked him, ‘What is this good for?’ he told me, ‘This is good for recovery, don’t ask me again if you want to be a good champion. You are like my son.’ I trusted him.”

– David Torrence and Hamza Driouch talking about how Jama Aden tried to trick them into doping when he was their coach. Torrence refused, but Driouch took the “supplements” and was banned.

Jama Aden Gets Arrested

LRC Jama Aden Doping Raid Update: How Might The Raid Impact Mo Farah, The Dibabas and Nike?Today, we look at some of the connections between Aden and the sport’s biggest names like Genzebe Dibaba, Tirunesh Dibaba, Mo Farah, and Nike and wonder what type of impact, if any, the scandal will have on them. We also reveal for the first time in the English press that Mo Farah trained in Sansabell, Spain in 2014, a fact his agent didn’t even know, but claimed to be more than 100 miles away in France. Why?

LRC Everything You Need To Know About The Jama Aden Doping Raid That Took Place With Three Dibaba Sisters Being Present We give you the scoop on the biggest doping scandal in distance running’s history and the biggest non-country-related (i.e. Russia) doping scandal since BALCO. In the near future, we’ll have much more for you, including “What does this mean for Nike, Mo Farah and Alberto Salazar, who all have ties to Aden?”
*MB:Jama Aden Arrested After Police Raid Discovers EPO In His Hotel In Spain
*MB:David Torrence essentially saying he snitched on Jama’s group

David Torrence Says Jama Aden Tried To Get Him To Take “Vitamin Injections,” But He Refused There were also “silencing campaigns” as John Cook (former coach of Leo Manzano) received death threats when he raised concerns about Taoufik Makhloufi in 2012.
IAAF Statement:Investigation Into Aden Started In 2013
AP Article One of Aden’s trainers was also arrested and the IAAF was there to test 30 athletes (including Genzebe Dibaba) who were staying at the same hotel.
Original Spanish Media Article That Broke The Story(translated)
Video Of Spanish Cops Escorting Aden To A Police Vehicle
LRCJama Aden Archives
MB: Dibaba dirty but Ayana clean?
MB:So if Farah is dirty for associating with Aden, does that make Salazar/NOP clean?
MB:BREAKING: UK runner with Aden’s during drug raid!! MO FARAH?!?!?!?!? Link Attached

Olympic News

Rio Government Declares “Public Calamity” Over Finances Ahead Of Olympics The Rio state government warned that “extreme economic measures” were needed to avoid a “total collapse in public safety, health, education, transport and environmental management.”
Apple, Facebook And Google Ban Rifle Emoji From Olympic Sports Themed Update
Blow For Rome 2024 Bid As Anti-Olympic Candidate Virginia Raggi Elected Mayor It sounds like at the least she will push for a referendum on the bid.
Rome 2024 Organizers Claim “Nothing Changes” As Result Of Raggi’s Election As Mayor

adidas Boost Boston *Full Results

Saturday LRCRecap Of The US’s 1st Street Meet: Marvin Bracy (10.23) Nips Yohan Blake At The Line, Tori Bowie Runs 11.03 & Jenn Suhr Scratches The United States’ first street meet is in the books. The atmosphere was great but not everyone was a fan of the temporary track. Yohan Blake was candid in the mixed zone afterwards, calling the track “atrocious.” That’s not all he was candid about as he also said that the Russians should be given a second chance in Rio and explained how God told him to give up “The Beast” nickname. A pastor told him if he did so, he’d run well in 72 hours and he then went out and ran his first sub-10 since 2012. Plus Jasmine Todd talks about her mysterious departure from UO.
*RRW: ADIDAS BOOST BOSTON GAMES A HIT IN HUB

Friday LRC Boston Recap: U.S. Leaders For Ajee Wilson In 800 (1:59.72) And Ben True In 1,500 (3:36.05), Sub-13 For Dejen Gebremeskel & HS Junior Kate Murphy (4:07.21 1,500, #3 A-T) Runs Faster Than The ProsRobby Andrews was 7th in the 1,500 in 3:37, Mary Cain 3rd in 1,500 in 4:10. *Friday Results

Message Board Talk About The Meet:

MB: Official 2016 adidas Boost Boston Games Discussion Thread
MB: High schooler Kate Murphy crushes the Olympic trial standard 4:07!!
MB: Robby Andrews 7th in Boost Boston 1,500; smoked by Ben True
MB: Mac Fleet: 3:51, Ben True: 3:36, Will Leer 3:58. WHAT?!?!?!

Lots Of National Champs Were Held Over The Weekend

German Champs: Strong Throwing Performances Lead The Way The Harting brothers – Robert and Christoph – went 1-2 in the discus.
Barbora Spotakova Throws WL 66.87 At Czech Champs She’s going for her 3rd straight Olympic title this summer.
Maryna Bekh Wins Ukranian LJ Title With 6.93m

US News

26 Years Later And The Guy Is Proud That He Sported A Speedo On Cover Of Runner’s World Some thought the cover was pornographic.
TrackTown USA President Vin Lananna Is Working Very Hard As The 1st-Ever Draft Of Track Athletes For The First TrackTown Summer Series Is Next Week And Olympic Trials Start In 2 Weeks 687 athletes have registered for the draft.

The Latest On The Russian Doping Ban

AmazingRussia Responds To Doping Ban By Saying They’ve Opened A Criminal Investigation On Ex Anti-Doping Lab Chief Grigory Rodchenkov, Who Has Fled To The US
Russian Track Athletes Are Likely Not Going To Be In Rio As IOC Issues Statement Saying It “Fully Respects” IAAF’s Decision To Ban Russia Some thought the IOC would overturn the IAAF’s decision on June 21. *More On IOC Statement
Great Point Author Says Yelena Isinbayeva Is A Hypocrite As She Wants To Go To Court Of Human Rights To Compete In Olympics But Doesn’t Want Gays In Russia Which is more of a human right? A) the right to compete in the Olympics or B) sleep with whom you choose. Answer: B.
Toni Reavis: It’s Time The Russians Learned About Collective Responsibility
Steve Magness Q&A On Russia Track And Field Ban
Russian Sports Minister Wants IAAF To Tell Russia What It Needs To Do To Be Allowed To Compete

LetsThrow.com

Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk Throws 3rd-Farthest Hammer In History (79.61m)
Adam Nelson Starts New Company Strong@40 “STRONG@40 is a new sports and lifestyle brand that will educate, inspire, and recognize the ‘masters’ athlete as it fills the massive void of information and opportunities for athletes over the age of 40.” *Fund It Here

Russia Ban Remains

LRCRussian Ban Remains: 9 Takeaways From IAAF Press Conference The IAAF has upheld Russia’s doping ban ahead of the Rio Olympics. We pull out the most important/interesting details that came out of the press conference with Seb Coe and the independent task force leader, Rune Andersen.
*MB:A great day for the sport. Russia remains banned for Rio

IAAF Press Release And Full Taskforce Report Download
Vladimir Putin Condemns “Unfair” IAAF Ban He said they’d be talking to WADA and hope for a “reaction from the IOC.”
Money And Politics:Insider Says Russian Ban Is A “Political Play” To Give The IAAF Credit, But Let The IOC Make A “Back Door” In The IOC meets on Tuesday to “to address the difficult decision between collective responsibility and individual justice.”
Ten US Track Athletes Who Benefit From Russian Ban Russia had a lot of depth in the jumps, so Jenn Suhr, Vashti Cunningham and Brittney Reese will all have an easier time in Rio.
Yelena Isinbayeva Furious; Says She Will Appeal To Human Rights Court “I’ll turn to a human rights court … I’ll do this demonstratively so that it is understood that Russia won’t stay silent.”
Good Read:Russian Olympic Ban Is Bittersweet For Whistleblower Vitaly Stepanov “What’s happening in Russia sports right now is like a circus. The same people that were running doping programs are saying that they are making changes. … I was somewhat glad to see that IAAF and the task force actually didn’t buy what Russian officials were saying.”
Positive And Negative Reactions From Around The World Quotes from from athletes, officials, governing bodies and politicians.
NY Times:Olympic Ban Adds To Russia’s Culture Of Grievances A good read for the politically inclined.
USA Today’s Nancy Armour:“Russian Ban Is Victory For Clean Sport, But There’s Work To Be Done” She argues it’d be a mistake for the IOC to try and find a “backdoor” way the Russians “can sneak in.”
Door Opened For “Gamechanger” Yuliya Stepanova To Compete In Rio
Stephanie Hightower:“[The Russian suspension] is the only proper course of action given the compelling and powerful evidence.”
NY Times’s Christopher Clarey:“Barring Russia’s Team, Not Just Individuals, Is A Powerful Move”
Statement Of European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen

Boris Berian Defense Fund Launched Berian and his team are trying to raise $25,000 for his legal fees to defend the lawsuit filed by Nike. The hearing scheduled for today in federal court got pushed back until tomorrow. Being in federal court sucks and is expensive.

Brazier Will Be At The Trials As A Pro

LRCGood News, Track Fans: Donavan Brazier Enters Olympic Trials And Is Turning Pro

Every pro LRC talked to in the last week except for one said Brazier should turn pro.

More From The NCAA:

Jasmine Todd Breaks Silence On NCAA Withdrawal Mystery As She Says She Was Pulled From Regionals For Being Academically Ineligible Apparently she was ineligible for the whole outdoor season, even when she competed at PAC-12s.
Ken Goe:Hayward Field Will Look Like A Modern Stadium When Renovations Are Done

Distance News

June 26th:Olympic Marathoners Shalane Flanagan, Amy Cragg to run B.A.A. 10K They’ll face a deep field which includes Atsede Baysa, Mary Wacera, Edna Kiplagat and Kim Smith. On the men’s side, Geoffrey Mutai will face Dathan Ritzenhein, Abdi Abdirahman and Daniel Salel.
Denver Post:How Jenny Simpson And Emma Coburn Co-Exist As Training PartnersMark Wetmore they both have “very strong egos” so “have room in their self-esteem for other people to be successful.”
Peter Snell’s Olympic Singlet Auctioned For $87,000 A NZ museum bough the singlet and Snell said he was shocked at the final price, admitting he’d only pay a couple of hundred for it himself.

Oscar Pistorius’ Family Report Threats Of Murder Ahead Of Sentencing A man contacted the family asking for payments for “evidence” that would help Pistorius, but when they refused he threatened to have Pistorius killed in jail.

Sprint Stuff: Bolt Vs Blake > Bolt Vs Gatlin

Ato Boldon Predicts Usain Bolt Will Have An Easier Time Winning In Rio Than He Did In London Remember that Bolt lost to Yohan Blake at the 2012 Jamaican Trials, but Blake is nowhere near the level he was back then
Good Read:Australian Sprinter Mangar Makur Chuot Will Represent South Sudan In Rio Chuot, the 2014 Aussie 200m national champ, will dedicated his performance to his father who died fighting for South Sudan independence.
South Africa May Have Left It Too Late To Qualify For Rio In The Men’s 4×100 They are making a last ditch effort at the African Champs, but this author bashed admins for not organizing an attempt earlier.
Justin Gatlin Signs New Deal With Chinese Sports Company

Victoria Track Classic

LRCHealthy Duane Solomon Wins Victoria Track Classic In 1:46.71

Melissa Bishop went 1:58 for the 2nd time in 3 days.

Articles We Found Interesting

RR:American Hammer Thrower Gwen Berry Had To Serve A 3-Month “Doping” Suspension For Taking A Much-Needed Asthma Medication
Good Athletics Weekly Profile Of Blanka Vlasic, Who Says, “I feel that I was born to do high jump.” She says a faith in Jesus Christ is now powering her.
Ryan Gregson And Luke Mathews: A Relationship Redefining Australian Middle-Distance Running Matthews first met Gregson when he was a star-struck 11-year-old. Now they are training partners and both are headed to Rio.
Kim Collins Won’t Be In Rio As He Pulls Out Of St. Kitts And Nevis Olympic Trials With Injury Even if he made the team, he might have been booted off for spending the night with his wife.
Ridiculous:Work Begins On Michigan’s $168M Athletics Complex For Track And Field, Lacrosse, Soccer And Rowing
Elise Cranny Is Back Home In CO And The Local TV Station Catches Up With Her She’s hoping her 4:09.54 time, just .04 off the Trials auto, gets her in. Based on our list, it should.
Due To Huge Headwinds, 10.70 And 12.16 Win Jamaican Junior 100m Titles The women’s race was run into a wind of -5.5 m/s.
Rio Governor Declares A State Of Financial Emergency, Requests Funding For Olympics He says emergency measures are needed to avoid “a total collapse in public security, health, education, transport and environmental management.”

Weekend Road Action

Yuki Kawauchi Destroys Japan’s 50km National Record By 3+ Minutes By Running 2:44:07
Elisha Barno (2:11:26) Is 1st Person To Repeat As Grandma’s Marathon Winner Since 1997 He was high-fiving the spectators on the way home. *Nick Arciniaga Was The Top American In 2:17:12
Sarah Kiptoo (2:33:28) Wins 2nd Women’s Grandma’s Marathon Title In Muggy Conditions Humidity topped 90%.

Now We Know Why Pros Hate Reductions

LRCCourt Filings Reveal That Nike's Proposed Contract To Boris Berian Was Full Of Reductions - Contract Could Even Be Terminated If Berian Was Injured And Didn't Compete For 180 Days

Court documents reveal that Nike certainly didn't agree to pay Berian a minimum of $375,000 over three years ($125,000 per year). Nike wanted to have the right to terminate the agreement entirely if Berian was injured and didn't compete for 180 days. If Berian got injured and only competed a handful of times and didn't make Worlds and wasn't ranked in the top 10 in the world, they wanted to be able to reduce his pay from $125,000 to $6,250. If he died or was permanently disabled, they also wanted to be able to cancel the deal. Berian says that's one reason why he doesn't want to run for Nike - the other is he doesn't like their shoes as he bombed out of USAs the first time he competed in them last year.

Ryan Hall Gets Profile In Men’s Journal About His Transformation From Rail-Thin Runner To 40-Pounds-Heavier Weightlifter Hall says he has more energy now, has fixed his testosterone levels and is eating more now than when he was running 20 miles a day.
*MB:Ryan Hall: a dozen eggs per day (yes, that’s 84 eggs per week !!!!)

Stop ~~Pre~~ Phe: Phoebe Wright Selling “Stop Phe” T-Shirts

The Trials Are 2+ Weeks Away – Who Is In? Out? And On The Bubble?

LRC Who’s In? Who’s On The Bubble? 2016 US Men’s Olympic Trials Descending Order Lists Given past history, we know there is bound to be a ridiculous controversy so we’ve tried to get ahead of it and let you know how things stand two weeks from the Trials.

LRC Who’s In? Who’s On The Bubble? 2016 US Women’s Olympic Trials Descending Order Lists

The Olympic Trials Are Less Than A Month Away

LRC LetsRun.com Olympic Trials Q&A: Who Are The Favorites To Make Rio? What Big Names Are Going To Stay Home? Wednesday marks three weeks to go until the Olympic Trials. With that in mind, it’s time for the LRC crew to start looking ahead. Who looks good? Who needs a lot of help? Who might surprise? Dare we say who will make the team?

The Summer Of Greatness Is Here

LRCThe LetsRun.com Summer Of Greatness Kicks Off With Advice To The High School Hopefuls June is here, the Olympic Trials start in one month, and the LRC Summer of Greatness is officially here. We want everyone to pursue a little greatness this summer and start with some advice for high schoolers. How are you going to pursue greatness this summer?

Pole Vault News

IAAF First Impressions Q&A With Poland’s World Pole Vault Bronze Medalist Piotr Lisek Lisek started as a high jumper, but switched to PV because he was too short.
Renaud Lavillenie And Shawn Barber Will Battle Again At The Zurich DL Meet September 1st World leader Sam Kendricks will also be in the field.

Brooks PR Invite *Full Results

LRC Brooks PR Recap: Could Nick Symmonds And Andrew Wheating Be Watching The Olympic Trials From Home? Symmonds’ ankle injury kept him out and Wheating still doesn’t have an Olympic Trials auto qualifier after windy conditions slowed down the 1,500m. In positive news, Leo Manzano took a big step in the right direction.

More Saturday US Action: MB:COLBY ALEXANDER RUNS 3:36.26 AT PRINCETON The guy who didn’t even make the NCAA finals last year missed the Olympic standard by just .06.

The Latest Regarding Russia

Sunday Was Father’s Day

Recommended Read Phil Knight Writes A Column In The New York Times About Importance Of Fathers On Father’s Day
Even Better Read Scott Reid Writes A Father’s Day Tribute To His Own Father And Son And Talks About How Running Has Bonded Them Together

Olympics-Related News

Meb Keflezighi Says He Missed Some Training Days As He Went To Eritrea At The End Of May To Celebrate Its 25th Anniversary Of Independence Meb also ran a 30:07 10k last week as part of a promotional appearance. Meb: “It’s important for me to purposefully undertrain.”
Jared Ward Runs 66:01 To Win Alaska Airlines Rock ‘N’ Roll Seattle Half Marathon In Olympic Tune-Up Ward says he’s been logging 120-mile weeks with a handful of 25-mile long runs in the lead-up to the Olympics.
Female British Columnist Laments The Fact That Katarina Johnson-Thompson And Jessica Ennis-Hill Aren’t Bitchy Rivals, But Instead Are Friendly
Be Inspired Susanna Kallur, 60H Indoor WR Holder, Is Back After 6 Years Away From The Sport Did you know the Swede also has American citizenship? She was born in NY as her dad won 4 Stanley Cups for the NY Islanders.
Markus Rehm Dealt Blow In Bid To Make Rio Olympics As IAAF Says He’s Failed To Prove That His Prosthetic Leg Doesn’t Give Him A “Competitive Advantage” This is the way it should be. If you have internal testicles or a fake leg, the onus should be on you to prove it.
Athletics Weekly Selects A British Olympic “Dream Team” They pick the best Olympians in British history.
He’ll Be An Olympian Soon: Clayton Murphy Tells Track And Field News He Thinks One Of His Biggest Strengths Is He’s A Master Of Tactics He raced only to win at a small HS. He also says he’s doing the 800 at the Trials if he doesn’t have the 1,500 (which he doesn’t yet have).

Harry Jerome: Duane Solomon Injury Update!

LRC Harry Jerome: Duane Solomon Pulls Up And Runs 1:50, Bishop Defeats Martinez In 800 Clash, De Grasse Doubles, Wariner Still Doesn’t Have A Trials Qualifier And McNamara Wins And Reveals He’s One Of YouA little drama with Solomon’s injury and a great 800m north of the border. Plus Jordan McNamara talks about the message boards and gives some advice.
*Record Crowd Of 6,000+ Showed Up At Harry Jerome To See De Grasse

2016 Stockholm DL*Full Results

LRC Full Stockholm DL Recap: Upsets Galore – David Rudisha And Many Favorites Get Beaten As Ibrahim Jeilan, Ferguson Rotich And Angelika Cichocka Pull Off Stunners On a cool and damp evening in Stockholm, there were a lot of surprise winners, including Angelika Cichocka and Ferguson Rotich, but the real question is should Mo Farah be concerned as Ibrahim Jeilan is in the form of his life for 5,000. *Full Results

IAAF:Keni Harrison Defies The Rain To Win Her Third Successive Diamond League 100H RaceJavier Culson got his first win of the year in the 400H.
Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic Gets Convincing Long Jump Victory Over US’s Tianna Bartoletta And Brittney ReeseChristian Taylor sailed to a 17.59m TJ win.
BBC:Diana Asher-Smith Cruises To 200m Win In 22.72
IAAF:Ibrahim Jelian And Ruth Jebet Show Olympic Medal Potential As Ferguson Rotich Shocks David Rudisha
MB: Official 2016 Stockholm DL Live Discussion Thread
MB:Jeilan is back!
MB:Gen La Caze – 9.23 – 7 sec PR – and DQ?

Berian Vs. Nike (Special Section Here)

LRCBoris Berian Lawsuit Update: One Week To Go Until Both Sides Square Off In Court; Nike's Proposed Contract That Reportedly Had 2 Pages Of Reductions In It Has Not Been Publicly Filed Yet

An update.

What Makes Asbel Kiprop So Good? We Try To Tell You

LRCA Week With The World's Best Miler: An Exclusive Look At Asbel Kiprop's Last Two Workouts Before The Pre Classic

The Pre Classic is this weekend and the Bowerman Mile is LOADED with Olympic champ Taoufik Makhloufi, all three medalists from Worlds last year, plus studs like Matthew Centrowitz, Silas Kiplagat and Ayanleh Souleiman. But the headliner is Asbel Kiprop, and our man on the ground in Kenya, Andy Arnold, says hand him the victory and world record later this summer after getting a behind-the-scenes look at his preparation for Pre.
*MB: The secrets of Asbel Kiprop revealed - Our man on the ground in Kenya says hand him the gold and WRecord