June 17, 2017 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“It’s great place; I love the track, so many great memories and a lot of great times that have been dropped. It’s a little sad this is my last race as a high schooler … hopefully me and my team can come out here, do what we do and just run really fast.”

– Sydney McLaughlin talking about New Balance Outdoor Nationals in Greensboro, NC before she ran the fastest girls split in HS history (49.85 FAT).

MB: HSer Sydney McLaughlin just split a 49.85 FAT!

Stumptown Twilight Was Friday Night In Oregon *Full Results

MB:Galen Rupp Wins Tactical 5,000 Over Guy In LetsRun.com Singlet In 13:55; Jordan Hasay Runs 15:45 And Is Beaten At the bell in the men’s 5,000, it was a two-man race. Rupp and the guy in a LetsRun.com singlet, Ben Rainero, but Rupp closed in 55 or 56 to win. *Full Results

Thursday Night In Philly: LRC Hoka NJ/NY Twilight: Gregorek, O’Hare, Merber, And Andrews All Run 1:47. Charlene Lipsey Runs Big 4:10 PR

Pre-2017 New Balance HS National News

A Look At The 10 Best Athletes At NBON
Good Read:Lengthy Profile On 2015 Foot Locker Champion Weini Kelati And Her Quest To Graduate And Make It To The NCAA Kelati hasn’t competed at all this year (she’s too old for HS competition), but has been racing the academic clock to graduate and compete in the NCAA next year (she’ll compete for New Mexico).
DyeStat NBNO Sprints/Hurdles Preview
*Jumps Preview
*DyeStat Throws Preview

Olympic News – It’s A Good Thing Usain Bolt Is Retiring

McDonald’s Exits Longtime Olympics Sponsorship Where would Bolt eat?
McDonald’s Sponsorship Started Unofficially When They Airlifted Hamburgers To The US Team In 1968
Interesting Read Phil Hersh Thinks The IOC Still Might Give The 2024 Games To LA – “Why L.A. 2028 Might Not Be Such A Good Deal – For The City Or The IOC” He says they need an cheap games for PR reasons and LA will be cheap. If they give LA the 2028 Games, opponents might be able to block it as 11 years is a long wait particularly if Paris 2024 costs more than expected.
NBCUniversal Says Olympic Channel Will Launch On July 15 Call your cable provider to make sure you get it.

Sometimes Talent Shines Early

Nice Dave Hunter Profile Of Sandi Morris: The View From 5 Meters When she got to Arkansas, coach Compton told her, “You can jump about 15 feet your way. Or you could change and jump the world record my way some day.”
Jason Richardson Remembers When He Won World Jr. Gold In Both 110H And 400H In 2003

More Pro News

Yohan Blake Admits That He “Cried A Little Bit” Making His Farewell Video To Usain Bolt Before His Final Race In Jamaica Last Weekend You can watch the video here.
Kenyan Journalist Justin Lagat Explains Why Every Pro Athlete Should Have Their Own Website For one, athletes who don’t get their own domain name have random companies benefiting from their name. Just check out EliudKipchoge.com.
Young Pros Take Note:Four Lessons That Can Be Learned From Usain Bolt’s Career “There’s something the training manuals don’t tell an athlete … Pain thresholds, patience and inner strength are things that can’t be found in a magazine. Instead, a sprinter had to learn those alone, through experience.”
Valerie Adams Is Having A Baby Girl In October

LetsJump.com

Did You Know Olympic TJ Silver Medalist Will Claye Is A Rapper? Check Out His Music Video Here
*LRC Archives: Three Time Olympic Medalist Will Claye Starting New Career As A Rapper
World And Olympic HJ Champ Derek Drouin Talks About The Slump He Faced After Winning Bronze In 2012/2013 Drouin says after medaling at two global championships, he put too much pressure on himself and ended up jumping horribly for over a year until he learned to relax again.
Greg Rutherford Sidelined With Ankle Ligament Injury Rutherford won’t jump again this month, but is hoping to be back in July.
Tips For Track And Life From Bulgaria’s Olympic HJ Silver Medalist Mirela Demireva She shares advice she received from her father as she says, “Every dead end has an exit. What he means by this is, it is all about how you handle things that come to you.”
IAAF Inside Athletics:Ato Boldon Interviews Olympic Pole Vault Champ Thiago Braz

IAAF Profile:Andre De Grasse Wants To Beat Usain Bolt, But Isn’t Getting Ahead Of Himself As He Knows He Isn’t The Best Yet De Grasse has his doubts on whether Bolt will actually skip the 200 as he claims. De Grasse doesn’t believe Bolt won’t run the 200, Justin Gatlindoesn’t think Bolt will actually retire. What is it with top sprinters not believing Bolt?

**HS Action – Brooks PR Meet Full Results Streaming**

Full Results For The 2017 Brooks PR InvitationalSam Worley won the mile but not no one broke 4:00. Brodey Hasty (8:45) won the deuce. Anna Gibson (4:43) and Brie Oakley (9:51) won the girls distance races.

MB Talk: Brooks PR Mile Best HS Mile ever It was supposed to be but no one broke 4:00.
The best HS milers EVER? fail to break 4…
Casey Clinger Will Win The Brooks PR Mile
Swinging Sammy your Brooks PR mile champ
Anna Gibson 4:43 wins Brooks PR mile

2017 New Balance HS Nationals Schedule & ResultsFree Live Webcast June 16-18

MB: Sydney McLaughlin Splits a 49.85 FAT in a relay!!!
MB: Official 2017 New Balance HS Nationals Discussion Thread

Going Pro Early

Tennessee’s Christian Coleman Is Turning Pro When you go sub-10 and sub-20, you go pro. He’ll stay at Tennessee and still go to school there and be coached by them.
Is She Next?High Schooler Sydney McLaughlin Splits 49.85 FAT At New Balance Nationals That’s the fastest split in HS history. *Video
MB: HSer Sydney McLaughlin just split a 49.85 FAT!

Coffee/Nap News

Athletics Weekly: 6 Foods Every Athlete Should Eat From coffee (because it’s great for your gut) to pomegranate, they’ve got you covered.
Steve Magness: A 15-20 Minute Nap Helps You Do Better Than A Large Coffee In Terms Of Concentration At Work A nap as short as 10 minutes may be the best, even if you don’t fall asleep.
Nick Willis Reveals He’s Never Had Coffee In His Life
Here’s How To Take A 10-Minute Nap At Work

2017 Bislett GamesResults TV & Streaming

LRC 2017 Bislett Games Recap: Jake Wightman Pulls Off A Huge Upset, A 16-Year-Old Runs 3:56 and A Women’s Wig Comes Off Mid-Competition Fans who watched the 2017 Bislett Games were entertained in a variety of ways on Thursday evening. On the track, two precocious Norwegian talents delighted the home crowd. Off the track, a women’s long jumper’s wig fell off during the event and a rabbit forgot to run the water jump in the women’s steeplechase and then took out the #1 seed from behind. *Full Results

LRC Oslo Track And Field Blooper Reel: A Wig Falls Off, The Rabbit Misses The Water Jump And More The meet was full of crazy stuff that you don’t normally see at a track meet.

MB: Official 2017 Bislett Games – Oslo Diamond League Discussion Thread
MB:Jakob Ingebrigsten runs age 16 WR of 3:56.31 in Oslo!!!
MB: WTF Wightman Some British guy I’ve never heard of just won the Oslo 1,500
MB: Dafne Schippers Blatantly False Starts in 200 in Oslo But is Allowed to Run

Outside Coverage

Random Links We Enjoyed

Josh Kerr Talks To The Albuquerque Journal About His Training In 2016 And 2017 He didn’t race XC in the fall but bumped his mileage up and didn’t race for a month after NCAA indoors.
Favorites For 2017? Georgia Returns Everyone On Its Women’s Team That Scored At NCAAs Except For Kendall Williams (Who Won The Hep)
Skid Row Marathon – Film On Homeless In LA Who Run Marathons – Is Debuting On Saturday LA Film Festival
Devon Allen Doesn’t Totally Rule Out A Return To Football “Maybe after I have a gold medal and a world record. Maybe then I’ll seriously think about football again.”
Can A Watch Really Estimate Your VO2 Max? Within about 5% apparently.

Hasay And Flanagan Squaring Off At AJC Peachtree

RRW Jordan Hasay To Race Shalane Flanagan At Peachtree On July 4th Bernard Lagat, Leonard Korir and Sam Chelanga on the men’s side.
Discuss:Hasay vs. Flanagan: Who You Got? This one would have been no contest a year ago. Has that changed?

Upcoming International Action

June 23:Renaud Lavillenie Looking For His Sixth Victory At The European Team Championships
June 24:UK Half-Marathon Record Holder Callum Hawkins Chasing The Sub-60 Minute Barrier At The Olomouc Half The field includes Kenyans Simon Cheprot and Kenneth Keter who both have sub-60 PBs. Ethiopia’s Worknesh Degefa (66:14) leads the women’s race.
June 28:David Rudisha Looking To Drop A Fast Time AT The Ostrava Golden Spike Meet This will actually be Rudisha’s first time racing over 1000m.
July 1:Ukraine’s 18-Year-Old Heptathlete Alina Shukh Expected To Be In Contention For A Senior Title At The Euro Combined Events Team Champs

Paavo Nurmi Games *Results

Poland’s Pawel Fajdek Highlights Paavo Nurmi Games With 82.40m Hammer World Lead Bahrain’s Sadik Mikhou won the 3,000 in 7:44 as Caleb Ndiku was back in 5th (7:54). Renaud Lavillenie took the PV over his brother in 5.81m.

Doping Updates

Jamaica’s Kaliese Spencer Wins Doping Rules Violation Case Spencer was accused by JADCO of evading a drug test, but they could not provide evidence that she had been properly notified that she was required for testing.
Irish 1,500m Olympian Ciara Mageean Calls Out Double Standards With Doping Procedures For Different Sports An Irish soccer player served a ban, but it only came out later on due to report by the Sunday Independent.
Russian Athletics Federation Hoping Confident More Athletes Will Be Cleared To Compete Neutrally Before Worlds This after the IAAF Task Force completed their latest progress inspection in Russia.
Ukrainian Racewalker Olena Shumkina Banned For Doping The former Russian (competed under infamous doping coach Viktor Chegin) got a 3+ year ban after being caught by the biological passport.
WADA Drops Investigation Into Russian Fencers Names In McLaren Report Due To Lack Of Evidence 27 fencers were under investigation after being named in connection with the manipulation of doping samples.

Random But Somewhat Interesting

Preliminary Model Of Usain Bolt Statue Is Revealed To Dispel Fake Images On Social Media Kind of looks like an old man falling backwards, doesn’t it?
A List Of Japanese Athletes With London 2017 WC Qualifiers Only one Japanese man has the 10,000 standard of 27:45.00.
Irish 1,500 Runner Ciara Mageean Says She’d Give Her “Right Arm” For A Medal At Worlds
Lucy Smith Sets New Canadian 50+ Record Of 17:39.66

World Youth News

Kenya Names Its Team For The World Youth (U18 Champs) That It’s Hosting Later This Summer
Japan Withdraws From World Youth Champs In Kenya Due To Security Concerns
Kenya Offering Free Internet, Swimming, Gym And Sauna Services To Those Who Show Up For World Youths “We must put out the best message about the country to the world.”
Kenya To Send Only Four To Commonwealth Youth Games In Bahamas In July

Last Week Was An Amazing One For Track Fans – We Take A Look Back At It

WTW Mo Farah Celebrates Really Early, Edward Cheserek Dominates Virtually, And Molly Huddle’s Medal Chances Go Up While Evan Jager’s Go Down Eammon Coghlan famously celebrated in 1983 more than 100 meters out. Last week, Mo Farah was celebrating from more than 200 meters out. While Farah was celebrating, foreign-born athletes were sweeping the men’s distance events at NCAAs and the medal odds for Evan Jager were going down and Molly Huddle going up.

Great Journalism From The NY Times

The New York Times Goes To The Czech Republic And Catches Up With 800-Meter World Record Holder Jarmila Kratochvilova In the 3,000-word piece, Kratochvilova and her coach maintain she never doped.
*MB: “Track’s Most Resilient (and Suspect) Record Is in Danger” – NYTimes

News From The UK

Sebastian Coe Admits Athletics May Never Again Be One Of The Top 3 Sports In Britain But That Won’t Stop Him From Being “Innovative, Braver And More Creative”
Mike Rowbottom Thinks The Mixed Relays Are A Bad Idea “The Olympic Games are not, and should not be, a novelty event.” We agree. If you are going to have mixed relays, you need to get rid of the regular relays.
It’s 50 Days Until Worlds And Here Are 50 Reasons To Be Excited For 2017 Worlds In London
50 Days To Go: IAAF World Championships Chat With Colin Jackson Jackson won two 110H titles in the 1990s.
Triathlon Federation Sends Congratulations Letter To Jonny Brownlee That Was Supposed To Go To His Brother
British Paralympic Star David Weir Reveals His Battle With Depression: “I wrote a letter to my kids saying I was going away and I was sorry.”
GB picks development squad for next week’s Euro Team Champs The bigger names are mainly skipping it to get ready for the British Trials. *Super League Entries *1st League Entries

Murphy Going For The Double!

LRC Legend Alert: Clayton Murphy Trying To Become First Man In 84 Years To Win 800 & 1,500 At USAs Rick Wohlhuter did do it at the 1976 Trials (at the time a separate meet from the US Champs), finishing it off by beating Matt Centrowitz Sr. Can Murphy get through the Olympic champion, Matthew Centrowitz Jr.?
Discuss: Clayton Murphy to run 800 and 1500 at USAs!

LRC Nine Days Out From USAs, Which Athletes Have The IAAF World Championships Standard? Who Has More – The Men Or Women? Team USA fans, we’ve got good news, the lowest number of standard holders in any mid-d or distance event is six. Plus who has more qualifiers – the men or the women?