Good Reads

• Incredible read for throws fans and coaches 1976 Olympic discus champ Mac Wilkins takes you behind the scenes into Ryan Crouser’s gold medal performance in Rio He gives you the scoop on his training and each and every throw of the Olympics. All coaches, even distance coaches should read this, as it tells you how to set up a season and competition to peak perfectly.
• Outside Magazine asks what’s responsible the renaissance in American distance running – are training groups the key?
• Scott Douglas ask, “Why Don’t More Elites Post Their Training Online?” Ritz, “It would be like a company just posting their business plan and protocols for everyone to see and use. I have no problem sharing it with anyone who asks, I just don’t want it available for anyone at anytime.”
• Is your dog injured? Send him to Chicago where he can get on an underwater treadmill
• Kathrine Switzer To Run 2017 Boston Marathon To Mark 50th Anniversary of Her Historic Run The 70-year old will move from the tv booth (which she’s been doing for 30 years) to the course for the 2017 race.
  *Did you know?Switzer is married to Kiwi xc legend Roger Robinson
  *Video interview with Carie Tollefson from June
  
• Salazar Gave A HS Fan Galen Rupp’s Spikes + Bib and Salazar’s Own Jacket in Rio After Mo Farah Won 10k Gold *Discuss
• Alan Abrahamson isn’t impressed by Ryan Lochte’s 10-month swimming suspension He also is missing out on $100,000 in medal bonuses.

Good Reads – International Edition

• Mo Farah says he’ll soon concentrate on marathon rather than track, but says he wants to give 5k WR a crack After admitting he’s a better championship racer than time trialer, Farah said, “The world record is 12’37. It’s incredibly, incredibly hard and I will give it a shot but you’ve got to be honest with yourself. It’s not an easy record.”
• *MB: Here’s what Mo Farah actually said in the #AskFarah interview on SkySports – Re: 5k WR and his marathon future 
• Wayde van Niekerk says Usain Bolt told him he could break the 400 WR when they were training together in Jamaica
• Woman who is paralyzed from the waist down starts Great North Run early – hopes to finish in 5 days

This Weekend’s XC Schedule

NCAA XC Schedule and Results

Week That Was

LRC Week That Was: How Fast is the 5th Avenue Mile Course?, Free PR Advice for Mo Farah, And a College Coach Helped an NCAA Legend Score Some Booze Plus in case you were gone we had the Diamond League finale in Zurich with the big win by Shannon Rowbury, a game effort by Evan Jager, and a great women’s 200m.

Wejo Speaks – His Rio Olympics

LRC “People are People”- The Olympics Remind Us Of All That is Great (and Bad) in the WorldTwo weeks after Rio, LRC’s Weldon Johnson tries to make sense of his Olympic experience.

The Paralympics Have Started

• Belarus Stages Pro-Russia Protest During Paralympics Opening Ceremony By Carrying Russian Flag To be fair, Belarus is a country with a lot of doping bans as well.
• Q&A With Utah High School 400m Champ Hunter Woodhall Ahead Of The Paralympic Games Back in May, Woodhall ran 47.63 to win the stat championships against able bodied runners.
• New Brazilian President Booed As He Opens 2016 Rio Paralympic GamesMichel Temer was the vice president of the impeached Dilma Rousseff, so he is accused of the same corruption allegations.
• Paralympics Opening Ceremony In Pictures There were some cool stuff like a wheelchair stuntman and some strange things like a paralympic snowboarder dancing with a robot.
• Opening Ceremony For Russia’s Alternative Paralympic Games Takes Place In Moscow The Russian paralympic committee president had some harsh words for the rest of the world as he said, “Let the God be the judge for all those, who used to say that everything is all right with us and then barred us from the Paralympic Games.”
• British Paralympic Chief Denies Accusations That Classification System Is Being Maniupated To Boost Medal Chances
• Five Irish Stars To Follow At The Paralympics
• Olympic Channel Will Show More Than 300 Hours Of Rio Paralympic Coverage

Mid-Week Action: Genzebe Dibaba Misses Mile WR *Results: *Rovereto *Zagreb

• Rovereto: Genzebe Dibaba Runs 4:14.30 To Break African Mile Record, But Comes Up 1.74-Seconds Short Of The WR Dibaba’s time was the second fastest outdoors ever, although it’s slower than her indoor WR of 4:13.31. Sifan Hassan was way back with 4:25 for 2nd and Alexa Efraimson was 3rd (4:27). World bronze medalist Amel Tuka won the men’s 800 in a SB of 1:44.80. *Discuss
  
• Zagreb: Long Jumper Ivana Spanovic (7.03m) And Discus Thrower Sandra Perkovic (67.86m) Were The Highlight Performances Distance victories included Robert Biwott in the 1500 in 3:37 (Robby Andrews was only 12th) and Margaret Kipkemboi in the 3K (8:45) over World XC champ Agnes Tirop. In the sprints, Asafa Powell missed his 98th sub-10, but won in 10.01.
  *Olympic Champ Ryan Crouser Wins Deep Shot Put Crouser beat out bronze and silver medalists Tom Walsh and Joe Kovacs.

Unrest In Kenya

• Kenyan Sports Minister Hassan Wario Defends Decision To Disband NOCK He said that sporting organisations should not exist in a “vacuum above the law.”
• NOCK Reportedly Lost $30,000 Paying For A Room On A Cruise Ship For The Kenyan President Even Though He Never Attended The Games
• Bickering And Finger Pointing Continues Between Hassan Wario, NOCK And Wesley Korir At Parliamentary Meeting

Get Excited For This Weekend: The Final Diamond League Meet Of The Year Is Friday

• Friday:IAAF Preview: Some Events Will Come Down To The Wire For The Overall Diamond League $40,000 Prize The 100 will be a duel between Dafne Schippers and Elaine Thompson, Asbel Kiprop has a small lead in the 1500, but faces Elijah Manangoi and the men’s HJ is wide open.
  *Provisional Entry Lists
  *MB:Shannon Rowbury entered in Brussels 5000m, will she break the AR?
• Saturday:500m And Mile Fields Highlight The Great North City GamesDavid Rudisha will take on GB’s top 400m runners in the 500 and in the mile, Bernard Lagat faces Silas Kiplagat while Laura Muir leads the women’s race.
• Sunday:Vivian Cheruiyot, Tirunesh Dibaba And Priscah Jeptoo Will Face Off At The Great North Run Half-Marathon There is a good men’s field as well with Mo Farah leading Dathan Ritzenhein, Emmanuel Bett, and Abdi Abdirahman.
  *MB:Farah, Ritz, Abdi And Vivian Cheruiyot vs Tirunesh Dibaba

Sprint Stuff

• Update:Bruno Hortelano In Stable Condition After 3-Hour Surgery To Reconstruct His Right Hand Hortelano was a passenger in the car driven by his cousin. His agent says he will need a second surgery on the hand.
• A Number Of Japanese Olympians Were Back On The Track At The National University Champs 4×100 silver medalist team member Yoshihide Kiryu ran 10 races over 3 days, winning 3 of 4 finals and getting a MR 10.08 in the 100.
• The Houston Chronicle Takes A Look Back On Carl Lewis The Former Athlete And Updates You On The Current Coach Some interesting facts: Lewis coaches at the University of Houston for free and he reportedly weighs 184-pounds, one pound less than he was at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
• Ato Boldon And Former Olympic Silver Medalist Richard Thompson End Coaching Relationship Thompson felt that Boldon focused so much on teen sprinter Khalifa St Fort, that everyone else “took a back seat.”
• Bahamas Federation Defends Controversial Decision To Not Let Shaunae Miller Do The 400-200 Double In Rio Miller is the Bahamas 200m NR holder and would have likely been a medal threat, but she did not run the 200 at the trials so was only selected for the 400.
• Asafa Powell Going For His 9th Sub-10 100m In Zagreb Today

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