Archived Homepage For July 19, 2016
Archived Homepage For July 19, 2016

Would You Break Your Marathon PB If We Offered You $200,000? What About $10,000 To Come Within 30 Seconds Per Mile Of It?

LRCOne Of The Largest Cash Prizes In Road Racing History Goes Unclaimed - 48-Year-Old Pennsylvania Viral Marathon Dad, Mike Rossi, Misses Out On $200,000 Challenge To Replicate His Marathon Personal Best

We were so confident that Mike Rossi cheated at the 2014 Lehigh Valley Marathon that we offered him $200,000 to replicate his personal best. He failed to do so and also failed to claim $10,000 if he could come within even 30 seconds per mile of his alleged marathon best.

Upcoming Road Mile Action

Running History: Two Good Reads

2016 Herculis Monaco*Full Results 

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LRC Ronald Kwemoi Upsets Asbel Kiprop In Monaco As History Will Have To Wait For The 100th Sub-3:30 Clocking Coming into tonight, 99 times in history a human had broken 3:30 for 1,500. When Asbel Kiprop hit 800 in 1:50 low, it looked like we were well on our way to #100 but the final 700 wasn’t kind to Kiprop.
*MB: Kiprop and Farah get trashed in Monaco *Kiprop is DONE

Screenshot_2016-07-15-12-22-51LRC Caster Semenya (1:55.33 NR) Runs The World’s Fastest Time Since 2008 & Leads Field To Slew Of PRs; Francine Niyonsaba 1:56.24 NR, Molly Ludlow 1:57.68 #7 All-Time USA Semenya has yet to go sub-1:55 but it is only a matter of time.

Screenshot 2016-07-15 at 14.32.59LRCRest Of Monaco: Omar McLeod Loses For First Time In 2016, Van Niekerk Keeps Winning, National High Jump Record & Dramatic Injury For Tamberi

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What If A Bunch Of Crazy Stuff Didn’t Happen At The Trials

Duane Solomon too hotLRCWhat If Duane Solomon Hadn’t Let Up In Round #1, What If Kim Conley’s Shoe Hadn’t Come Off, What If Brenda Martinez Hadn’t Been Tripped Up In The 800? We look at “What if” a bunch of crazy stuff didn’t happen at the Trials …

Screenshot 2016-07-12 at 10.16.15 PMSpeaking Of Crazy: LRC Wow: Is This Best Finish To A Distance Race Ever? We’ve seen some crazy finishes over the years, but aren’t quite sure if we’ve ever seen anything as crazy as the finish to the men’s 5,000 at the 2016 European Championships.

Trials Week That Was

The Craig Engels crazeLRC The Biggest Winners And Losers At The Olympic Trials We know who made the team and who didn’t, but who really won and lost? We tell you – but with a twist as some losers won and some winners won by losing.
*LRC Mason Finley – US Olympic Trials Discus Champion – Credits Much Of Success To The Fact He’s Lost 87 Pounds – Says Cardio Work And Nutrition Are The Keys To Massive Weight Loss

More Doping News

Upcoming Diamond League Action

Euro Champs Are Over *Results

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

Russian Doping Scandal: WADA Calls For International Russian Ban *PDF of Richard McLaren’s Full Report

Doping News: Latest WADA Russian Scandal Report


Interesting Read:Washington Post: “A Less Glamorous Side Of Olympic Life: Peeing In A Cup Under Watchful Eyes” A in-depth look at the  post-race and out-of-competition athlete testing process.

Mid-Distance News

Random But Interesting

More From The Trials

UK News

More From The Trials

Sprint Stuff

Latest Russian Doping Scandal Updates

More Countries Name Their Olympic Teams

Team USA Named For Rio

Jamaica’s Olympic Track Squad Is Released

The Final Day – The 2016 Olympic Trials*Live Results*Schedule/Entries*Video Interviews*Race Videos*TV/Streaming Information*RW Prediction Contest

LRC Abbey D’Agostino Is An Olympian – Emily Infield And Molly Huddle Will Only Race The 10,000 In Rio

thumbnail only do not useM1,500Matthew Centrowitz Delivers Again As Ben Blankenship Gets Revenge By Edging Leo Manzano For Final Olympic Spot(article updated) Centrowitz (3:34.09) took down the U.S. championship record in a fast race as Robby Andrews took second (3:34.88). Just as in 2015, it was Blankenship and Manzano battling to the finish, with Blankenship turning the tables for third in 3:36.18 to Manzano’s 3:36.62.

Thumbnail only do not useLRCW1,500Women’s 1,500m: Jenny Simpson Wins Convincingly, Rowbury 2nd, And Brenda Martinez Makes It To Rio (article update) The real drama here was for third. Brenda Martinez got the storybook ending she wanted as former world #1 Morgan Uceny came up just short in her own bid for redemption.

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LRC W5,000 Molly Huddle Completes 10k/5k Double; Shelby Houlihan, Kim Conley, Abbey D’Agostino Going To Rio (article updated) Huddle was dominant as Houlihan and Conley took 2-3. Huddle and 4th placer Emily Infeld are only doing the 10K, so 5th placer D’Agostino gets a ticket to Rio.
*NBC Article

LRC12 Minutes With Matt Centrowitz After He Won Olympic Trials 1,500

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.

PHOTO: Jenny Simpson at the historic headquarters of the New York Road Runners at 9 East 89th Street in advance of the 2014 Fifth Avenue Mile (photo by Chris Lotsbom for Race Results Weekly)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?

Manzano was clutch at the last Olympics.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.

Hill earned his first global medal by taking silver in the 3k at World Indoors earlier this monthLRCUS 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.

Non-Russian Doping News

The Real Winners From The Trials

Weekend Results *Padua *Heusden*NACAC U23 Champs (link fixed)

Usain Bolt Gets Cover Of Sports Illustrated

boltcoverGreat Read On Usain Bolt In Sports Illustrated Tim Layden once again showing why he’s the best track writer in America. It’s two straight SI covers for Tim as he also had the Caitlyn Jenner cover article.
*Be Like Jon Gault, Read SI Cover-To-Cover Each Week For Under $1 A Week And support LRC – we get a small commission if you sign up.

GB News: UK Athletics Crushing Dreams

Latest Report On Russian Doping Comes Out Tomorrow

Doping: Aden Updates; Rosa Charged In Kenya

Controversy Abounds As GB Selects Their Olympic Team

Rio 2016 Updates

More Doping News

Canadian Trials In The Books *Results

Trials Non-Mid-D And Distance Action

Sydney McLaughlin Sets World Youth RecordLRC The Rest Of The Meet: Felix Loses A Chance To Make History, Dalilah Muhammad Makes History, Sydney McLaughlin Arrives, And Kerron Clement Re-ArrivesAllyson Felix‘s quest for history is over before it really even began. Felix wasn’t the only one to have a bad day as Johnny Dutch also failed to make it to Rio. The news wasn’t all bad as in the women’s 400 hurdles, HSer Sydney McLalughlin made Team USA and Dalilah Muhammad set a new US championship record.

Saturday At The 2016 Olympic Trials

Lagat-wins-2016LRC 41-Year-Old Bernard Lagat Wins Crazy Men’s 5,000 At 2016 US Olympic Trials (Updated) Father Time took a blow from the majestic Bernard Lagat, who blitzed a 52.82 final 400 to go from 6th to 1st and book his ticket to a 5th Olympic Games.

Screenshot 2016-07-09 at 19.27.19LRC 5,000m Video Interviews: Bernard Lagat, Hassan Mead, Paul Chelimo, Eric Jenkins, Ben True, Ryan Hill, Galen Rupp, And Brian Shrader