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LRC 41-Year Old Bernard Lagat Wins Crazy Men’s 5000 at 2016 US Olympic Trials (Updated)Father Time took a blow from the majestic Bernard Lagat who blitzed a 52.82 final 40 to go from 6th to 1st and book his ticket to a 5th Olympic Games.

LRC 5000m Video Interviews: Bernard Lagat, Hassan Mead, Paul Chelimo, Eric Jenkins, Ben True, Ryan Hill, Galen Rupp, and Brian Shrader

Day 7 At US Trials

LRC Emma Coburn Wins A Dramatic Steeplechase Final As Missourians Courtney Frerichs And Colleen Quigley Rally Late To Nab The Final Two Olympic Spots Coburn remains the queen of the steeple in the US but Courtney Frerichs (9:20.92) and Colleen Quigley (9:21.29) both came up big and PRed in the most important race of their lives to punch their tickets to Rio.

LRC Men’s And Women’s 1,500 Heats: Much Ado For Nothing As Nine Races Are Run To Eliminate Eight Athletes Will Leer was the biggest name to go home. Interviews with nearly all the 1,500 stars.

LRC Sara Hall Talks Adoption And Ryan Hall Being Back On The Track: “He Can Still Throw Down” link fixed

Previous Trials News

LRCTake The Tour: What’s It Like To Make Team USA? The sad truth is not everyone can achieve their Olympic dreams, but at least now you can get a glimpse of what it would be like to make Team USA.

LRCUS Olympic Trials Women’s 1,500 Preview: Simpson & Rowbury Should (Probably) Make It? Who Will Emerge In The Battle For Third?Brenda Martinez is doubling back from the 800. Morgan Uceny is the defending Trials champ. Cory McGee made the World Indoors team. Which one will step up? And how will 4:07 HS junior Kate Murphy fare against the pros?

LRC US Olympic Trials Men’s 1,500 Preview: Can Anyone Stop Centro? And Will Anyone Else Get The Standard?Only five guys – Matthew Centrowitz, Kyle Merber, Ben Blankenship, Robby Andrews and Leo Manzano – have the Olympic standard. Unless someone runs faster than 3:36.20 this week, three of those five will be your team to Rio.

LRCUS Olympic Trials Men’s 5,000 Final Preview: Who Will Close Best In A Wide-Open Race?Ryan Hill is the defending champ but bombed in his only race outdoors. Galen Rupp looked shaky in the prelims. Ben True, Hassan Mead and Eric Jenkins all struggled in the 10k. Bernard Lagat is 41 years old. This race is full of question marks, which makes for a compelling final.

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?”

More Saturday Trials

LRC Devon Allen Delivers Hayward Magic to Win 110 Hurdles in 13.03; Justin Gatlin (19.75) Wins 200 as Noah Lyles (20.09) Takes 4th and Breaks HS Record

MB: USATF Oly Trials DAY 9 – Official Thread

College football star Devon Allen going to Rio, Aries Merritt not Merritt thought he finished 2nd, less than a year from a kidney transplant, but the photo showed him to be 4th.
Justin Gatlin wins men’s 200 at Olympic trials as veteran sprinters hold off high school challengers

More From The MB:

Good Profile On Ryan Hill Who Started Training Himself At 12-Years-Old By Reading Running How-To Books Hill isn’t taking anything for granted and is preparing as if he isn’t making the team.

More Trials

Looking Ahead to Sunday: LRC US Olympic Trials Women’s 5,000 Final Preview: With All Three 10K Olympians Doubling Back, Could 6th Place Be Going to Rio?Molly Huddle, Emily Infeld and Marielle Hall are all coming back from the 10k and all three have a good shot to finish top-3 in the 5k. Huddle has said she’s leaning against doubling in Rio, but Infeld and Hall haven’t committed, so Nicole Tully, Abbey D’Agostino, Shelby Houlihan et. al could finish fourth (or even fifth or sixth) and still go to the Olympics. Also if Marielle Hall makes it and does the 5000 only, then maybe Kellyn Taylor will be an Olympian.

LRC One For The Thumb: Evan Jager Wins His 5th Straight USATF Title (updated)Jager for the win, Hillary Bor 2nd, Donn Cabral rounding out the Olympic team.
*There Was Little Joy For Jager In Win As Neither Of His Teammates – Huling Or Bayer – Made It With HimDonn Cabral also wasn’t happy with the way he ran.

LRC11 Minutes With Evan Jager After He Wins the Trials Jager talks about the “pure speed” workouts he’s introduced, his goals for Rio, the women of Bowerman “crushing it” and more.

LRC Stanley Kebenei Shows The Drama Of The Trials: “I don’t know what to say, I just missed my lifetime chance … Oh my god.”

LRC Men’s 1500 Semis: The 5 With The Standard All Auto Qualify For Final But We’ve Got Yet Another Needless Controversy As The Officials Put 13 People Into The FinalThe “Heat of Death” didn’t produce a travesty – no the travesty was produced by the officials, who have stupidly put 13 runners into the final even though there were no DQs in either heat. #IDIOTIC
*MB: Guess what? They’ve done it again. Officials needlessly put 13 people into men’s 1,500 final without a DQ!!

LRC A Tremendous Women’s 1,500m Final Is Set As Jenny Simpson, Shannon Rowbury Cruise, And Former High School Stars Cain And Efraimson Advance The HSers Aragon and Murphy didn’t advance.

Day 8 On The Message Board / Fan Forum:

The Latest On The Federico Rosa Arrest In Kenya / Doping News

Asbel Kiprop’s Agent, Federico Rosa, Released On Less Than $3,000 Bail
Asbel Kiprop Posts An Angry Rant On Facebook Defending Rosa, Whom He Says He’ll Work With Until The End Of His Career “I speak out loud because I feel for the humanity when an innocent person is being convinced pinned down accused falsely. It is our own people who doped our athletes and a good answer to this is when Mathew Kisorio doped he confessed and showed the doctor who doped him to the authorities. No action was taken against the doctor … I will not quit speaking the truth because it will set us all free. I will never join critics haters & false accusers. Take it to the bank.”
Athletics Kenya Says Authorities Have Told Them Nothing About Charges Against Federico Rosa
Asbel Kiprop Says Rosa’s Arrest Is Hurting His Olympic Preparations
Coe Calls On Athletes To Follow The Example Of Russia’s Yulia Stepanova And To Blow The Whistle On Doping
Rita Jeptoo Apparently Hung Up On In Middle Of CAS Court Case She Was Calling Into – Denies It Was Deliberate They are trying to increase her doping ban from 2 to 12 years.

Day 7 2016 Olympic Trials Sprint And Field Action *Live Results

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LRC High School Sprinters Noah Lyles, Michael Norman Lead 200m Qualifying, Sydney McLaughlin Impresses Lyles and Norman won their heats easily and moved up to #2 and #3 on the US high school all-time all-conditions list with 20.04 and 20.06. McLaughlin ran 55.46 for the second-fastest time of the day.

Register-Guard:Keturah Orji Cruises To Women’s Triple Jump Title Christina Epps got the standard on her second-to-last jump, meaning that the US will send a full TJ team for the first time since 1996.
Michelle Carter’s Final Heave Gives Her Women’s Shot Put Crown
Cornell’s Rudy Winkler Wins Olympic Trials Hammer Throw Winkler won in 76.76m, just short of the 77m qualifying standard, but he hopes to get an IAAF invite for his position on the world descending order list.
Good Read:NY Times’ Jere Longman: “Aries Merritt Isn’t Letting Disease Stand In His Way”
Amber Campbell Wins Women’s Hammer, Breaking The Meet Record Twice Campbell made her 3rd Olympic team.
Javelin Thrower Haley Crouser Hopes To Join Her Brother Sam And Cousin Ryan In Rio Sam (javelin) and Ryan (shot put) are already qualified.

2016 US Olympic Track And Field Trials

LRC Absolute Madness In The Women’s 800: Alysia Montaño Falls Down In Tears As Kate Grace Wins A Wild Race A tangle of limbs on the final turn saw Brenda Martinez lose her momentum and Montaño fall to the track. Grace took advantage, riding the rail to victory in 1:59.10 as Ajee Wilson (1:59.51) and Chrishuna Williams (1:59.59) joined her on Team USA. Molly Ludlow missed out by an agonizing .04, taking 4th in her second consecutive Trials.

LRCVideo Of Women’s 800m At The Trials: Chaos At The Trials Yale’s Kate Grace FTW. Video also in our recap above.
LRC The Women Of The 800 Speak After Turbulent Olympic Trials Final
MB:OMG: What happened in the women’s 800? Will they re-run the race?
MB: Good news folks: Bmart IS entered in the 1,500

Full Coverage In Our 2016 Olympic Trials Special Section

2016 European Championships*Live Results / Start Lists

IAAF Day 3 Recap:Dafne Schippers Wins Second European 100m Gold In 10.90 Other winners included: “Turkey’s” Polat Kemboi Arikan (10K – 28:12), Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benebbad (steeple), GB’s Martyn Rooney defending his 400m title in 45.29, Ivana Spanovic (LJ).
Recommended Watch:Cornell Alum Bruno Hortelano Finds Out He Was Upgraded From Silver To Gold In Post-Race Interview Hortelano won in 20.45 after the Netherlands’ Churandy Martina was DQed.