– Ben Blankenship talking about shooting for the 2016 Rio Olympics and just missing the USA 1,500m Worlds squad last year by two hundredths of a second.
Ethiopian 10k Trials
LRC Tirunesh Dibaba Loses A 10,000 For The First Time In Her Career – Almaz Ayana Is Now The Woman To Beat In Rio Dibaba had never lost a 10,000 in her life before tonight, having amassed a perfect 11-for-11 record. Ayana had never run a 10,000 before tonight but that inexperience didn’t stop Ayana from ending Dibaba’s win streak in dominant fashion. What does it mean for Molly Huddle?
*MB:Official Ethiopian 10,000 Live Discussion Thread
LRC Kenenisa Bekele’s 2016 Olympic Dreams Come To An End As The 2012 World Junior Champ Yigrem Wins Ethiopian 10,000 Trials Bekele wasn’t the only prominent DNF. Mo Farah slayer, Ibrahim Jeilan, also was a DNF.
We give our take on some of the top stories of the last month.
NCAA Standouts Shaquille Walker And Brannon Kidder Join Brooks Beasts Track Club
*Walker Talks About The Decision To Forgo His Final Year In The NCAA
Caitlyn Jenner Sports Illustrated Cover Hits Newsstands Wednesday Jenner will appear on the cover wearing her gold medal 40 years after her 1976 decathlon Olympic win.
RIP Long Time Indiana University Coach Sam Bell During his time at IU, Bell lead the team to 22 Big Ten titles and 23 top-10 NCAA finishes.
*USATF Mourns Loss Of Hall Of Fame Coach Sam Bell
Recommended Read:Brenda Martinez Has Had To Overcome A Lot Of Setbacks To Become The World Beater And Olympic Medal Hopeful She Is Today Before getting Joe Vigil as her coach, Martinez was without a sponsor and rejected by multiple training groups. She and her husband struggled to make it financially and had to hop track fences at night to do workouts.
LRC Matthew Centrowitz And Brittney Reese Go #1 Overall In 1st-Ever Professional Track And Field Draft Track and field has entered the modern world.
LRCJustyn Knight Outkicks Galen Rupp, Former NCAA Stars Greer, Fleet, Wheating, Soratos Come Up Short, Centro Is Back And Is Mary Cain As Well? Galen Rupp lost in the 5,000, beaten by Knight and Woody Kincaid. Centrowitz crushed everyone in the 1,500 as Andrew Wheating ran 3:40, Edward Cheserek 3:41 and Mary Cain 4:13. Becky Wade didn’t get the USA qualifier in the steeple.
LRC Mary Cain: “The reason I’m relaxed is I’m finally in a place where I see it’s going to happen again … I know it’s going to happen and I know it’s going to be better than 4:03.” Cain talks like she’s definitely on the way back.
LRC Andrew Wheating: “Eight years ago I was just a boy, now I’m a man taking a different approach.”
What Are The Toughest National Teams To Make For Rio? USA women’s 100 hurdles tops the list with 37 women who have the Olympic qualifying standard. Kenya’s men’s marathon and Ethiopia’s women’s 5,000 squad also make the list.
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?”
LRCAn Oral History Of The 2012 Olympic Trials Women’s 5,000, Part III: The Aftermath The world saw the drama unfold on the track but how has the unforgettable race impacted the protagonists since then?
*LRC Part I: The Road To The Trials
*LRC Part II: The Race
*RR:DailyRelay:“An Oral History Of The 2008 Men’s 800m Olympic Trials Final”Andrew Wheating: “There’s never going to be a race in my life that will ever have the same meaning to me as that race does.”
The Olympic Trials are here. It's time to get down to business.
LRC US Olympic Trials Women’s 800: Prepare For Chaos In The Most Wide-Open Distance Event Of The TrialsAjee Wilson, Alysia Montano and Brenda Martinez have all starred on the international stage before. Will they make it to Rio? Not necessarily, as 12 Americans this year have run between 1:59.72 and 2:00.82.
LRC US Olympic Trials Men’s 800: Old (Nick Symmonds/Duane Solomon) Vs. New (Boris Berian, Clayton Murphy, Donavan Brazier) Over Two LapsThe 800 is full of lots of studly young talent in Boris Berian, Donavan Brazier and Clayton Murphy – average age 21. Will they arrive as Olympians or can the old studs like Duane Solomon and Nick Symmonds make one last stand?
Previous: LRC US Olympic Trials Men’s 10,000 Preview *LRCUS Olympic Trials Women’s 10,000 Preview: Molly Huddle, Then Who?
Flanagan is on fire, and so is training partner Amy Cragg, who set another PR, and Dathan Ritzenhein returned with a good run.
*RRW: Hometown Hero Shalane Flanagan Wins B.A.A. 10-K; Sets North American Record
*MB: Ritz 3rd in baa 10k in 28:12 … should he have done the Trials?
*MB: Shalane too fit too early?
LRC David 1, Goliath 0: Nike Has Dropped Its Lawsuit Against Boris Berian Berian is now free to run for whomever he pleases at the 2016 US Olympic Trials.
*Keflezighi Tells Bloomberg Berian’s “First Preference” Is To Now Sign With New Balance
*Out Of The Goodness Of Their Hearts? Nike Says It Dropped Their Lawsuit To “Eliminate The Distraction” For Boris Berian Ahead Of The Trials We’re sure eliminating all the bad publicity was among the considerations as well.
*The Oregonian:“Nike, Facing Skeptical Judge, Drops Endorsement Lawsuit Against Berian” This a day after Nike told the federal court it would suffer “irreparable harm” if Berian went to NB.
*Ken Goe’s Take On The Case Before Nike Dropped The Suit“I don’t understand … why Nike wants to force Berian to stay in the fold if he doesn’t want to be there. Let him go.”
2008 Olympic Race Walk Champ Alex Schwazer Fails Drug Test Just 6 Weeks After Returning From 3+ Year Ban This from the guy who got his girlfriend banned for helping him evade drug tests and broke down in apologetic tears after testing positive in 2012. Pathetic.
*Schwazer Claims He Was Sabotaged, But Aussie Jared Tallent Isn’t Buying It Schwazer returned from his doping ban to beat Tallent at the World Race Walking Team Champs last month.
*AP article
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
Last year, on the comeback trail after hamstring surgery, Yohan Blake, the second-fastest man in history, was running and losing "B" heats in Europe. Now, the man formerly known as "The Beast" is back in form, having exorcised his demons. "The nickname was holding me back. I keep on getting injured and it was related to the beasts in the Bible ... God didn't like it, so I had to change it."
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