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Quote Of The Day

“You don’t want it so much for yourself but the people who’ve supported you. When you fall short of being able to hand them a medal, it hurts a little bit for yourself but you feel like you’ve let people down.”

– Former Australian paralympic pentathlete Don Elgin talking about the “burden” he put on his wife and four children by spending time away traveling and training and wanting to be able to reward that with medals. In a good article, Elign also talks about his longtime friendship with Oscar Pistorius and how he doesn’t live a “politically correct life” and thinks “society is getting a bit soft.”

Hot Track Action Set For Tomorrow: Will The Women’s Mile WR Go Down?

Genzebe Dibaba Going For The 20-Year-Old 4:12 Mile WR In Rovereto, Italy Rio 5th placer Sifan Hassan is also in the field.
Eight Olympic Medalists Will Compete In Zagreb Throwers highlight the meet with Olympic champs Sandra Perkovic (discus), Sara Kolak (javelin) and deep shot put with Ryan Crouser, Tom Walsh and Joe Kovacs. Asafa Powell and Christophe Lemaitre highlight the flat sprints and distance action includes World XC champ Agnes Tirop in the 3K and Ryan Gregson vs Bethwell Birgen in the 1500.

More Distance News

Molly Huddle Reflects On Her Race At The Olympic 10,000 After going through 5K in 14:55 Huddle says, “It was a lonely last 5K for me and hard to reconcile trying not to get lapped while also trying to stay on pace for the American Record.”
Faith Kipyegon Returns Home To A Heroine’s Welcome … and to power.
Oklahoma State Has Strong Season Opener Sweeping Their Home Dual Meet Over Arkansas, Oklahoma University And Others

The Paralympic Start This Week

IPC Reject Request To Fast Track 34-Russian Appeals Against Paralympic Ban This means none of the appeals will be heard until after the Paralympics are already over.
Leading Russian News Agency Boycotting Coverage Of Rio Paralympics In Sign Of “Solidarity” With Banned Athletes
Good News: World Health Organization Says There Are No New Cases OF Zika Connected To The Olympics
UK Athletics Will Launch Inquiry Into Paralympic Athlete Classifications There is concern that some athletes cheat the system by classifying with athletes “significantly more impaired.”

Doping News

WADA Website Has Been Fighting Off Daily Hacking Attempts From Russia For The Last Three Weeks We guess their IT guys had better luck than Flotrack.
Is Trevor Graham Still Coaching Despite A Lifetime Ban? Graham got a lifetime ban after doping Justin Gatlin, Marion Jones and others in the BALCO scandal, but there is a lot of evidence that he, much like agent Mark Block in 2012, is still very much involved in the sport.
Do It, You Won’t: California Senate Passes Resolution Urging IOC To Rescind Medals Won By East Germans During State-Sponsored Doping Era

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.

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.

More Distance News

Aussie Steepler And Florida Alum Genevieve LaCaze Gives Advice On How To Run A Great Steeplechase LaCaze took 18 seconds off her PR this year to set a 9:14 Oceania record at the Paris DL meet.
Sad News:RIP Former Adams State Great Dan Maas Maas, a former Olympic Trials finalist, and his wife died in a car crash last week.
In-Depth Analysis And Ranking Of The Best Treadmills Of 2016
Matt Tegenkamp Inducted Into The Roy Griak Invitational Hall Of Fame

Upcoming Distance Action

September 17:Jordan McNamara Vs. Ben Blankenship And Heather Kampf Vs. Lauren Johnson At The GNC Live Well Liberty Mile
Syracuse Men Are The Pre-Season Favorites In Opening NCAA XC Coaches’ Poll Oregon ranked #2 and NAU, Stanford and Colorado 3-5.
Defending Champions New Mexico Women Lead NCAA Pre-Season Poll Colorado, Providence and Oregon are ranked 2-4.
Ethiopia’s Shure Demise Will Defend Her Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon Title In October Her debut came in January 2015, but Demise has already racked up four elite marathon finishes and returns to Toronto as a vet.

5th Avenue Miles Results Streaming

LRC Eric Jenkins (3:49.4) & Jenny Simpson (4:18.3) Win Fast, Thrilling Races at 2016 New Balance Fifth Avenue MileJenkins took down Olympic champ Matthew Centrowitz (3:49.5) at the line as the winning time was faster than what Centro ran to win 1500 gold in Rio. Simpson prevailed in a duel with Great Britain’s Laura Muir (4:18.4), edging her by 0.1 of a second at the line.

*RRW:Simpson And Jenkins Take Home Fifth Avenue Mile Titles

Other Weekend Action *Berlin ISTAF Results

World Junior Champ Rodgers Kwemoi And Olympic 4th Placer Alice Aprot Win The Tilburg 10 Mile/10K Kwemoi won the 10 mile in 46:04 as former World marathon champ Abel Kirui was 5th and Aprot ran 31:34.
IAAF:David Rudisha (1:43) and Caster Semenya (1:55) Keep Winning At Berlin ISTAF Bernard Lagat was 2nd behind Augustine Choge in the 3K as the throws highlighted the meet with Michelle Carter beating Valerie Adams in the SP and Johannes Vetter won a deep men’s jav as Christina Obergfoll the women’s in her last competition before retirement. *Discuss
Brit Julia Machin Equals Women’s 45-Age-Group High Jump World Record With 1.65m

Sprinters And Field Eventers News

Recommended Read:Olympic 400H Champ Dalilah Muhammad Is A True Symbol Of Progress For Muslim Women While Muslim women competing in sports while fully covered were celebrated as progress, Muhammad is a practicing Muslim who competed uncovered and got little attention for it.
Good Read:Ashton Eaton Ponders Life After Retirement From Track And Field Eaton has been very reflective about his last Olympics, but doesn’t yet know what he wants to do after track. He hasn’t committed to doing 2017 Worlds and apparently Brianne Theisen-Eaton will also soon retire.
USain Bolt’s Sister Is Angry At The Media For Calling Him A Womanizer And Wants Him To Be Left Alone
Ivana Spanovic Says Winning The Diamond League Trophy Means More To Her Than Her Olympic Bronze While she’s proud of her bronze, she was disappointed to not win silver or gold in Rio. We imagine the $40,000 prize for the DL is a factor as well.
Jenn Suhr Has Had To Cancel The Rest Of Her Competitive Season As She Still Isn’t Recovered From Her Illness
Sydney McLaughlin Reflects On Rio In a 3-part video interview McLaughlin talks about the possibility of going pro, competing at the Olympics and how things have changed since returning to the US.

Distance News

Never Too Old To Chase The Dream:34-Year-Old Singapore 10-Minute Steepler Quits His Job As A PE Teacher To TrainMuhammad Shah Feroz has already taken 17 seconds off his PB to run 9:42 and wants to break the 9:11 national record.
Extensive Q&A With Aussie Steepler Genevieve LaCaze LaCaze talks about her training, doing the steeple/5K double in Rio and how she dropped her steeple PB from 9:33 to 9:14 this year to set an Oceania record.
Kip Keino Facing Pressure To Resign Over Kenyan Olympic Committee Rio Disaster
Little Rest For Molly Huddle As She’s Already Back In Hard Training For Her Marathon Debut At NYC
Laura Muir Did Not At All Expect Her National Record Breaking 3:55 In Zurich As She Was Tired From Rio/Traveling

First Big NCAA XC Meet Is Next Weekend

Looking Ahead To What The Biggest Meets Of This NCAA XC Season Will Be A list of the biggest meets of the season along with which schools will be there.
NCAA XC Champs History Not On The Side Of Top-Ranked Syracuse Men While Syracuse is favored for returning 4 of their top 5, historically, when there is a close finish like between Syracuse and Colorado last year, it is the runner-up who does better the next year.
Analysis Of Past NCAA XC Champs Points Towards New Mexico Women Dominating Again Historically, teams that dominate as much as New Mexico did last year always finish 1st or 2nd the next year.

The Latest Usain Bolt Updates

Usain Bolt Battled A Serious Infection When He Completed The “Triple Triple” In Rio No, it wasn’t Zika. Bolt had an infection caused by a painful abscess in one of his teeth.
Bolt’s Rio Fling Says He Was “An Olympic Champion In The Bedroom” She also said he took a break to take a phone call from his mom.
Bolt Wants To End His Career On A High Note Next Year And His Motivation To Get Through It “Will Be All For The Fans”

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.

Non-Track Doping News

Swimming Federation Blames IOC And CAS For Russian Dopers And Likely Dopers Competing In Rio Members of the swimming anti-doping board resigned in protest to 7 Russians with doping pasts and/or implicated in the McLaren report being allowed to compete in Rio.
Russia Awarded 2021 Biathlon World Championships Despite IOC Recommendation Not To Hold Events There Maybe Russia will have their act together 5-years from now.
Russian 2012 Olympic Canoe Champ Banned For DopingAlexander Dyachenko was among those implicated in the McLaren report and barred from Rio 2016, although others mentioned were allowed to compete.
A Different Kind of Doping: UK Paralympian Withdraws From Rio Team Over Classification Concerns Allegedly, some are cheating by competing in a a more disabled classification. This is frustrating, but no matter what the sport, there will always be cheaters or dopers. Quitting won’t help. *2nd article

Administrative Conflict

IOC Threaten To Suspend National Olympic Committee Of Kenya If “Immediate Action” Is Not Taken To Rectify Post-Olympic Conflict Kenyan Sports Minister Hassan Wario disbanded NOCK due to the corruption and mismanagement issues in Rio.
Three Members Of Swimming Federation Doping Control Review Board Resign In Protest To The Response To The Russian Doping Scandal The IOC left it to each sport to decide and swimming was so lax that all the Russian swimmers were ultimately allowed to compete.

More Weekend Action *US 20K Champs Home

Sunday:World Half-Marathon WR Holder Florence Kiplagat And Rio 10,000 4th Placer Alice Aprot Facing Off At Tilburg Ten Miler (translated) Former World marathon champ Abel Kirui, former World XC champ Japhet Korir, Rotterdam Marathon champ Abera Kuma and WJ 10K champ Rodgers Kwemboi lead the men’s race.
Monday: Deep Fields Set For USATF 20K Champs With Luke Puskedra, Shadrack Biwott, Christo Landry, Matt Llano And Nick Arciniaga The women are lead by Aliphine Tuliamuk, Lindsey Scherf, Janet Bawcom, Brianne Nelson and Tara Welling.
Paralympics Start In 4 Days: NY Times Feature On Wheelchair Racer Tatyana McFadden Ahead Of The Paralympics

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: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:

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