– Maggie Vessey‘s coach Greg Brock talking about her 2016 season which started with early success, but lead to injuries and Olympic Trials disappointment. 34-year-old Vessey isn’t officially retired yet, but knows it was probably her last Trials.
WTWAge Cheating At World Juniors, Russia Doesn’t Get Banned, The IOC Screws Over Yuliya Stepanova And Is Keni Harrison The Second Coming Of Michael Johnson? We break down the good (Keni Harison is back in a big way) and bad (lots of cheating still going on all over the place) from an action packed week with two great meets – one in Houston and one in London.
Fight The Injustice LRCSign The Petition To Get Whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova Into The Olympics We don’t just think she should be in the Olympics – we think she should lead the parade of nations. She’s a role model that Russia and the world should follow. Yes, she made mistakes but she’s more than made up for them.
*Sign The German Language Petition That Already Has 35,000+ Signatures Petition has not been translated to English.
Indian Shot Putter Inderjeet Singh Fails Doping Test Singh claimed his sample was “tampered with” and he was being punished for speaking out against his federation.
Day 2 Full Recap LRCOn To Rio: Mo Farah Delivers A World-Leading 5,000m And Warning Shot To Kamworor And Karoki, Molly Ludlow Almost Wins And Much More Day 2 of the London Anniversary Games was full of quality, the best of which came from Mo Farah who put on a show for the fans and destroyed American Bernard Lagat, Ben True, Ryan Hill and Eric Jenkins in the process. There was good news for Emma Coburn and she didn’t even race but more heartbreak for Molly Ludlow.
*MB:Hill, True, and Jenkins go home DEVASTATED!
*MB:Mo and Butchard smash up USA and Kenya
*MB:Official Day 2 Live Discussion Thread
Day 1 LRCAmerican Keni Harrison Rebounds In Incredible Fashion From Not Making Olympic Team, Breaks 28-Year-Old World Record In Women’s 100 HurdlesWe all love sports because they are not scripted. Keni Harrison has gone from the lowest of lows to the highest of highs.
MB:12.20 WR For Keni Harrison in Hurdles
LRCMove Over, Kelly Holmes – Laura Muir Is The New British Record Holder At 1,500mMuir was sensational!!! American Amanda Eccleston showed no post-Trials 4th place fatigue as she PRed.
LRCThe Rest Of The Meet: Usain Bolt Wins And Shows He’s Healthy, Brandon McBride Comes Close, Silas Kiplagat Is Still Really Good And Is Shaunae Miller – Not Allyson Felix – The Favorite In The 400? Day 1 of the London Anniversary Games was full of quality.
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.
LRC Three Thoughts On A Much-Improved American Field At The 2016 New York City Marathon Earlier today, the full American elite field for New York was released. Kim Conley will be making her debut and Dathan Ritzenhein will be returning to NY for the 1st time in 6 years.
LRCClayton Murphy Versus Centro Lives Up To The Hype, De Grasse Defeats Powell & Gives The Stare, Prandini Gets The Double Centro and Murphy both brought it in the 1,000m and Murphy was too good and got the win. Ajee Wilson won the 800.
LRC Sandi Morris Breaks The American Record In The Pole Vault Video.
Russian Team Escapes Blanket Ban From IOC For Rio Games Instead, the 28 individual sports federations that make up the summer Games will make their own decisions while any Russian with a previous doping sanction is banned. *Discuss
LRCWhat A Day For High School Sprint Stars: Michael Norman Wins World Juniors 200m And Lyles Brothers Turn Pro Noah Lyles gets all the attention but his younger brother has better range. Video of Norman’s run.
Get Psyched For September:Wilson Kipsang And Kenenisa Bekele Will Go Head-To-Head At The 2016 Berlin Marathon Maybe something positive will come out of the madness that was Ethiopia not selecting Bekele for their Rio marathon squad.
*MB:Bekele and Kipsang in Berlin, also Yuki Kawauch
See who the kings of LetsRun.com are.
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
LRC 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.
LRCRest Of Monaco: Omar McLeod Loses For First Time In 2016, Van Niekerk Keeps Winning, National High Jump Record & Dramatic Injury For Tamberi
More From The Message Board:
LRCAmerican Christina Aragon Gets 1,500m Bronze At IAAF World U20 Championships Aragon ran 4:08.71 for 3rd as Ethiopia’s Adanech Anbesa (4:08.07) and Fantu Worku (4:08.43) went 1-2. Alexa Efraimson was 5th in 4:10.23.
*MB: Bronze for Aragon!*IAAF Race Recap
LRC Exclusive What’s Going On With US Anti-Doping’s Investigation Of Alberto Salazar’s Nike Oregon Project? Documents And Audio From Latest Court Hearing Offer Lens Inside The Investigation USADA’s attempt to compel Dr. Jeffrey Brown to testify about his treatments of several elite athletes has been met with skepticism by a Texas judge even though seven athletes themselves have given their permission.
*MB: The latest on USADA’s investigation into Alberto Salazar’s Nike Oregon Project
LRC Legal Analysis: 5 Takeaways From USADA’s Attempts To Force The NOP’s Endocrinologist To Give A DepositionA lawyer gives his thoughts on the court hearing.
NY Times:Judge Rules Against USADA Seeking To Despite Doctor Brown
LRCWhat 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 …
Speaking 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.
Want a Better Running Shoe?
Beta Better Running Shoe Site
It’s Time to Change How We Find Running Shoes