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Quote Of The Day

“At least this time I got the win.”

– Shannon Rowbury talking about ending up bloodied on the track at the Diamond League finale in Zurich for the second time. This year it resulted in a big victory and season’s best.

5th Avenue Miles Are Sunday at 1:15 and 1:30 pm ET Schedule & Results Streaming

LRCHow To Watch The 5th Avenue Mile For Free on Saturday at 1:15 pm ET and 1:30 pm ET An American 1500 gold medallist (Matthew Centrowitz) will be racing on US soil for the first time in more than 100 years. *Full Fields

MB: Official 2016 New Balance Fifth Avenue Mile Live Discussion Thread

2016 Zürich DL – The 1st Of 2 DL Finals – Full Results

LRC Shannon Rowbury Wins Diamond League 1,500 Finale In Zürich Shannon Rowbury ended her European campaign with a big win in Zurich.

LRC2016 Zürich Full Meet Recap: Evan Jager Goes For It, Caster Semenya And Ruth Jebet Finish Off Historic Seasons, The World’s Best Women Clash At 200 And Massive Marks In The Men’s Shot The first of the two Diamond League finals did not disappoint. Find out what happened here.

RRW:Five Women Doing the Zurich/Fifth Avenue Double A race in Zurich, a flight to NYC and another race in less than 48-hours for Jenny Simpson, Emma Coburn, Kate Grace, Laura Muir and Stephanie Garcia.
RRW:Distance Fireworks Cap Exciting Weltklasse in Zurich
The Guardian:Diamond League Series Win Comes With $40,000 Payday For GB’s Laura Muir That’s not a bad consolation prize for losing to Shannon Rowbury in the final race.
IAAF:Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson Sets Diamond League 200m Record With 21.85Asafa Powell ran 9.94 to go from 4th to 1st in the rankings and win the overall DL title.
IAAF:Tom Walsh Wins SP In Oceanian Record Of 22.20m As Renaud Lavillenie (PV), Christian Taylor (TJ), Ruth Beitia (HJ) And Sandra Perkovic (Discus) Repeat As DL Champions
IAAF:Shannon Rowbury Gets The Win But Laura Muir Takes The Overall DL Title The top 3 were exactly the same as Rio in the women’s 800 and steeple.
GB’s Holly Bradshaw Won The Zurich Train Station Pole Vault The Night Before The Main Meet

Zürich Talk On The Message Board / Fan Forum:

Today’s Doping Headlines

Arrest Her For Selling Stolen Goods: Cuban Drug Cheat Yarelys Barrios Ordered To Return Her 2008 Olympic Discus Silver, But She Already Sold It On Ebay She was caught in doping re-tests, but beat the IOC to it by selling her medal in June for $11,655.
IPC Will Not Allow Russians To Compete At The Paralympics As Neutrals As More Than 175 Appeals Dismissed A group not complaining about all the doping bans is the lawyers. Reportedly, 34 new lawsuits have been filed against CAS.
Indian Wrestler Refuses To Accept Upgraded 2012 Silver Medal In Honor Of The Late Russian Let’s be real; he was probably doping too.
Qatar Sprinter Samuel Francis Caught In 2008 Doping Re-Tests

2017 And 2019 World Relays Will Be Held In The Bahamas

HS News

Sprints And Throws

Justin Gatlin Says He’s “Hungry For Next Year” Gatlin is looking forward to 2017 Worlds in spite of the fact that “the Uk media has not been the most kind” to him.
A Look Back At The Second-Oldest T&F Record:The Men’s Hammer World Record Turned 30 Years Old Yesterday In 1986, the Soviet Union’s Yuri Sedykh threw 86.74m. Only one other person has ever thrown over 86m.
The Michael Jordan Of T&F, Usain Bolt Will Be As Marketable In Retirement As He Is Today An interesting thought – Bolt would take an estimated $18 million pay cut if he became the highest paid NFL wide receiver after retiring.
IAAF First Impressions Q&A With Tajikistan Hammer Thrower Dilshod Nazarov In Rio, Nazarov won Tajikistan’s first ever Olympic gold.

Assorted Olympic News

Survey Says More Than Half Of Rome Residents Support The 2024 Olympic Bid Only 36.2 percent said they were against it.
Rio 2016 Paralympic Torch Will Be Lit Up “Virtually” With Hashtags From The Internet
Arrested Irish IOC Member Released From Rio Maximum Security Prison To Go Under House Arrest

The Power Of Gold: After Four Decades Without Electricity, Faith Kipyegon’s Home Village In Kenya Gets Power For The First Time Thanks To Her Olympic Gold Medal Her father pleaded to the Kenyan president to give him power so he could watch his daughter compete.

We’re Not Done With Rio

LRC What You Missed Not Being There: Mo Farah Doesn’t Like Answering Questions About Jama Aden And SAFP Doesn’t Like Taking Questions About Usain Bolt Some insight from the Rio press conferences.

More Sprint Stuff

Good Read:Wayde Van Niekerk Says It’s Still “Unreal” To Him That He’s The WR Holder Van Niekerk’s time and Rio gold have given him a lot of confidence as he’s talking about running more of the 100 and 200 and “chasing down” Usain Bolt‘s times.
Andre De Grasse’s Coach Thinks His “Naivety To The Sport” Is A Strength De Grasse was barely training back during the last Olympics in 2012 and can’t even remember watching.
VCB Still Motivated After A Tough 2016 The 34-year-old said she still feels “fast and young as ever.”
South African Sprinter Who Trained With Usain Bolt This Year Wants To Get Under 20 Seconds In 2017Akani Simbine ran 20.16 before Rio and finished 5th in the Olympic final.
The Diamond League Series Win Could Facilitate Keni Harrison’s 100H/400H Double Aspirations For 2017 Worlds Winning the DL gives her an automatic entry to Worlds so she could focus on the 400H instead at USAs.

Olympic Controversies

Sneaker News

Departing adidas CEO Herbert Heiner Reflects On His 15 Years At The Helm During his reign, their market cap has gone up nearly 10 x – from $3 to $30 billion.

Doping / Corruption News

Kip Keino Gets Questioned For Several Hours By Kenyan Police Unlike his fellow NOCK officials, Keino wasn’t arrested or charged.
New Zealand Lawyer Leading Team Of Experts To Revamp The IAAF Governance Structure The group is proposing a whole new constitution and restructure which will see a new independent integrity and anti-doping unit and more voice for athletes.
NY Times:Anti-Doping Leaders From 17 Nations Push For WADA Reforms The biggest proposition is to forbid anti-doping officials from holding simultaneous roles with the IOC to prevent conflict of interests like exists withCraig Reedie. *BBC Article

Week That Was

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 Hours, And How To Get Rich In The Non-Profit World A look back at the week in the running world.

News From Europe

Next Saturday: David Rudisha Racing The 500 At The Great North CityGames Against GB’s Top 400 Runners
*Top GB Sprinters Richard Kilty, James Dasaolu And Asha Philip Competing At Great North CityGames
Tomorrow: Look Back At The History Of The ISTAF Berlin Meet Ahead Of The 2016 Edition Their mascot is entertaining, no doubt.
Amel Tuka Wins 800 In 1:46 At European Athletics Classic Meeting In Slovenia
Over One Million Tickets Applied For At The 2017 London World Championships
*Athletics Weekly Article Over 200,000 applied for the night of the 100m final.
Polish Discus Thrower Piotr Malachowski Talks About Selling His Olympic Silver Medal To Help 3-Year-Old Child With Cancer

2016 Hoka One One Long Island Miles *Results & Race Videos

RRW David Torrence (3:54.99) And Amanda Eccleston (4:26.87) Repeat At 2016 Hoka One One Long Island Miles Ajee Wilson ran 4:33.

The Latest Doping News

Important Read:Leaders Of 17 National Anti-Doping Organisations Meet In Copenhagen And Demand WADA Overhaul With Clean Sport “At Crossroads” We like many of the proposals. *WADA Responds With A Statement
Three More Russian Medalists DQed In Re-Test Of 2008 Beijing Samples Two weightlifters (shocker) and a 4 x 400 runner.
Swiss Court Upholds Russian Paralympic Ban

Olympic-Themed News

Malcolm Gladwell House Of Run Podcast Where He Talks About The Olympics The best-selling author explains why he prefers the World Champs to the Olympics.
Mikey Brannigan Lands In Rio For Paralympics The 1,500 final isn’t until September 13th.
John Carlos, Who Did His Own National Anthem Protest In 1968, Supports Colin Kaepernick’s Stance “I would let him know that he’s involved in a movement. He’s jumped into the pool of human history. (He’s) with those that have prevailed and risen above the norm.”
Vin Lananna Calls Coaching Team USA In Rio The Most Rewarding, Exciting And Tiring Event Of His Career Personally, we’d think winning an NCAA XC title would be more exciting for a coach.
If The University Of Florida Was A Country, They’d Have Placed 9th In Rio In Terms Of Gold Medals Won
Q&A With Michelle Carter’s HS Coach Carter was a great babysitter for the coach’s kids.
US Hammer Olympian Deanna Price Heard Her Mom Talking To Her From Heaven In Rio
Olympian And Track Star Tori Bowie Appears On Local NYC TV To Talk About Her 3 Olympic Medals
CNN Takes A Look At The Scandal Hitting Kenya’s National Olympic Committee From selling Nike kit to staying in a favela, Kenya’s got corruption covered.
Did You Know? Olympic PV Bronze Medalist Eliza McCartney Initially Wanted To Be A Netball Star

Going Pro

MB:Aisling Cuffe Signs With Saucony She’ll join Ray Treacy‘s group in Providence, which includes Molly Huddle and Emily Sisson.
Syracuse Alum Martin Hehir And 2:35 Marathoner Katja Goldring Join NAZ Elite Both athletes have already done well at the Olympic Trials as Hehir was 7th in the 10,000 and Goldring was 9th in the marathon Trials.