– Ryan Hill talking about missing the Olympics, after running 7:30.93 in Paris, the third fastest time for an American outdoors at 3,000m (Galen Rupp has also run faster indoors). The good news for Hill fans is he gets a shot at redemption in the 5,000m in Zurich this Thursday vs. Evan Jager and others.
LRC The Most Expected and Unexpected Medals For Team USA in Rio, The Women That Did and Didn’t Make History in Rio, Ezekiel Kemboi’s Retirement Didn’t Last 24 Hrs, And How To Get Rich In The Non-Profit World A look back at the week in the running world.
LRC Matt Centrowitz Goes Wire-To-Wire To Win USA’s First Men’s 1,500m Gold In 108 Years final Centro used tactical brilliance and a 50.62 last lap to earn America’s first gold medal in the men’s 1,500 in since 1908. Defending champ Taoufik Makhloufi was silver as Nick Willis got his second Olympic medal in third. Asbel Kiprop only 6th; USA’s Ben Blankenship was 8th.
LRC Men’s 5,000: Mo Farah Completes The “Double Double” As A Slew Of DQs And Reinstatements Cause Silver And Bronze Medal Pandemonium finalFarah cemented his place in Olympic history by joining Lasse Viren as the only man in history to pull off the 5K/10K double at two Olympic Games.
LRC Caster Semenya Delivers Gold As Women’s 800 Favorite, Francine Niyonsaba And Margaret Wambui Go 2-3 As Melissa Bishop Sets Canadian Record In 4th final Semenya’s terrific 2016 campaign continued after she fought off a spirited challenge from the Oregon Track Club’s Francine Niyonsaba.
LRC Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali And Kristi Castlin Go 1-2-3 In The 100 Hurdles For The U.S. Women’s First-Ever Olympic Track & Field Sweep Even without WR holder Keni Harrison, the US still went 1-2-3. Team USA also went 1-2 in the long jump as Tianna Bartoletta beat Brittney Reese by 2 cm. Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson completed the coveted sprint double by winning the 200 in 21.78 over Dafne Schippers and Tori Bowie.
LRCM800 Final: King David’s Reign Continues: David Rudisha Becomes First Man In 52 Years To Repeat As Olympic 800m Champion, American Clayton Murphy Snags BronzeRudisha has become the first man since 1964 to repeat as Olympic 800 champ.
LRC Unbelievable: Clayton Murphy Goes From 1:56 800m Runner To Olympic Bronze Medalist Talking World Record In Four YearsWhat an amazing journey for Clayton Murphy.
LRC Ruth Jebet Runs 8:52.78 To Shatter Steeplechase World Record updated She crushed the old record by 6 seconds. *Video
LRC Laura Muir Runs 3:55.22 – Yes, 3:55.22 – To Crush British 1,500m Recordupdated Only the Chinese, Eastern Europeans, and Dibaba have run faster. *Video
Rest Of Meet: LRCRyan Hill Becomes Third-Fastest American At 3,000m, Alfred Kipeter Wins Fast 800, Tom Walsh National Record In Shot Put
PR #15 Of Year (And Australian Steeple Record) For Genevieve LaCaze In Paris With 9:14
Sunday In Poland: Anita Wlodarczyk Breaks Hammer World Record Again, She Now Has The Top TWENTY Throws Of All Time
Gabe Grunewald Cancer Surgery Is Successful She had a big portion of her liver removed.
Ted Banks, Who Led UTEP To 17 NCAA Team Titles, Has Died At The Age Of 82 His 1981 XC team scored 17 points at NCAA D1 Nats.
3 Kenyan Olympic Officials Arrested Upon Return To Kenya The Kenyan public is outraged the athletes had to stay in a favela. The likely charges against the three could be selling the Nike kit that was supposed to be provided to the athletes. The article has video of Wesley Korir saying the theft happens all the time and finally the athletes stood up against it. Korir also says he is going to sue the officials for “endangering my life.”
Judge Rejects Prosecutor Request To Appeal Pistorius Sentence – His Sentence Stays At 6 Years
LRC Recap: Souleiman Wins 1,000m Clash With Centro And Kiprop With Ease, Elaine Thompson & Kendra Harrison Keep Winning Alexa Efraimson came up short in her attempt at the American junior 3,000m record.
Full Results Centro was 6th.
Post Of The Day?Poster Has Fake Diary Spoofing Those Criticizing Centro For Finishing 6th In Lausanne
London Partying Continues: Usain Bolt Drinks For FOURTH Night In A Row, Rings Up £6,000 Bar Tab, And Brings 2 Girls Back To Hotel Bolt supposedly has a long-term girlfriend who doesn’t like his antics: Usain Bolt’s “First Lady” Girlfriend Reacts To The Sprinter’s Partying Marathon
LRC Was This The Biggest Upset Of The Olympics? Vivivan Cheruiyot Stuns Almaz Ayana And Wins Women’s 5,000 Gold updated Talk about an upset. Hellen Obiri was 2nd with Ayana only bronze. USA’s Shelby Houlihan got 11th.
LRC How Vivian Cheruiyot Took Down Almaz Ayana To Finally Become Olympic Champion Cheruiyot almost was an all-time great without an Olympic gold. We tell you how she came out with gold.
LRC After The Outrageous French Protest Got Him Disqualified, Ezekiel Kemboi Quickly Unretires: “I will be coming to London 2017 to re-claim my medal from France. No limits.” “I will be coming to London 2017 to re-claim my medal from France. No limits.”
LRC Farewell To The GOAT: Ezekiel Kemboi, The World’s Greatest Steeplechaser, Retires Plus a little photo montage of Kemboi winning and celebrating his 6 global titles (4 Worlds, 2 Olympics).
LRC:Jenny Simpson Wins America’s First Women’s 1,500 Olympic Medal As Faith Kipyegon Upsets World Record Holder Genzebe Dibaba updated Dibaba made a big move with 2 laps to go, but Kipyegon tracked her the whole way and blew her away in the final 100m. Simpson ran a measured effort to move up in the last lap to take the bronze and almost catch Dibaba in the final meters. Shannon Rowbury was a close 4th.
Video Of Women’s 1,500m Final For US, UK And Canadian Visitors
LRC Genzebe Dibaba Addresses Drug Allegations About Her Coach Jama Aden: “I Am Crystal Clean From Doping” Not that we’d expect a different response, but the questions have to be asked.
LRC 43.03 From Lane 8! Wayde van Niekerk Takes Down Michael Johnson’s 17-Year-Old 400M World Record To Win Olympic GoldThe times were incredible on the lightning-fast Rio track as former Olympic champs Kirani James (silver in 43.76) and LaShawn Merritt (bronze in 43.85) were the only men who did not set an all-time best mark for place. *Video
LRC Usain Bolt Becomes First Man To Win Three Olympic 100-Meter Titles, Runs 9.81 To Defeat Justin Gatlin (9.89) Again Bolt proved once again why he’s the greatest sprinter of all time, passing Gatlin with 20 meters to go to win his third Olympic title. Canada’s Andre De Grasse was third in a personal best of 9.91 seconds as his former college rival Travyon Bromell struggled and was last in 10.06. *Video
NY Times: Usain Bolt Is Still the World’s Fastest Man The Times even has a stick figure graphic that claims to show the race positions in real time.
Wesley Korir, Margaret Wambui, Stanley Biwott, Other Olympians Stay In Rio Favela Overnight With Gunshots As Kenyan Olympic Officials Await “Cheap Flights”The Kenyan Olympic Committee has been disbanded as a result and the infighting began over who is responsible – the Sports Ministry or the Kenyan Olympic Committee.
LRC We Showed You The Money: LetsRun.com’s Rio Olympic Betting Guide Picks Proved To Be Spectacular Looking for proof positive that we are experts when it comes to track and field? Read this. If you followed our betting advice, you would have received at least an 80.2% return.
Five Past Champions, Including World Record Holder Dennis Kimetto, Headline 2016 Bank Of America Chicago Marathon Kimetto faces defending champ Dickson Chumba, 2012 winner Tsegaye Kebede, 2008 Olympic 10,000m bronze medalist Micah Kogo and Stephen Sambu making his marathon debut. Luke Puskedra, Nick Arciniaga and Diego Estrada head the American charge. World half marathon record holder Florence Kiplagat leads the women’s field against Boston champion Atsede Baysa and 2:23 women Valentine Kipketer and Gulume Chala.
LRC Video Exclusive The Bravest Olympian In Rio – Ethiopia’s Feyisa Lilesa Risks Death But Speaks Out About Killings Of Oromo Protesters In Ethiopia After Earning Olympic Silver In MarathonFind out why this Olympian says he’ll be killed or jailed if he returns to Ethiopia.
LRC Final Eliud Kipchoge Cements His Status As The World’s Greatest Marathoner As Galen Rupp Doubles Back From The 10K To Win Bronze Kipchoge took gold, Ethiopia’s Feyisa Lilesa silver, and Galen Rupp an impressive bronze for USA. Jared Ward ran a PR for 6th place as Meb Keflezighi struggled, but got to the line in 32nd.
LRC Dennis Mitchell’s Days As Relay Coach Have To Be Numbered Now: USA’s 50% Failure Rate Continues As Men Get DQed, Women Win Gold With #2 Time Ever The Jamaicans admitted they practiced twice all year and still kicked American butt. They also laughed and said the American crack under the pressure.
LRC What A Great Vault Competition: Sandi Morris Almost Wins Gold On Final Vault Then Talk Turns To Isinbayeva’s Retirement And Russian Doping Aftermath Plus video of the final vault.
Tim Layden’s Thursday Recap:Usain Bolt Reigns Again In Closing Act Of His Individual Olympic CareerBolt was entertaining as always as de Grasse got silver, Ryan Crouser led a 1-2 in the shot, Ashton Eaton was challenged but got gold, Dalilah Muhammad led a US 1-3 in the hurdles as the US continued to up its game.
LRCRyan Crouser’s Got A PhD (And Gold Medal) In The Shot Put Crouser threw the shot 4 feet further than he did a year ago thanks to being able to focus on it being done with his masters in finance.
LRC Abbey D’Agostino & Nikki Hamblin Show The True Meaning Of The Olympics As Almaz Ayana Leads Women’s 5,000 QualifiersWould you stop running in the middle of the Olympics to help a total stranger? These two women did just that.
*MB: Did Abby d just tear her acl?
*What are the rules around Abbey D fall and help?
LRC History In Rio: Almaz Ayana Smashes Women’s 10,000 World Record With 29:17.45 In Greatest Women’s 10,000 Ever – Molly Huddle Breaks American Record In 6th (updated) What a start to the track and field action in Rio!
LRC Almaz Ayana: “My doping is my training. My doping is Jesus. Otherwise. Nothing. I am crystal clear.”
LRC LetsRun.com Goes To Rio: Tanks, The Most Powerful Man In Rio That You’ve Never Heard Of, Brazilian “Queueing” And Fiji! Jon Gault recounts LRC day 1 on the ground and his first Olympic experience.
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