Archived Homepage For July 19, 2017
Archived Homepage For July 19, 2017

Evan Jager Talked To Us About Fancy Bears & Monaco

jager-celebrates-2016LRC  Q&A: Evan Jager Talks About Being Listed As “Likely Doping” In Fancy Bears Hack, The Steeplechase In Monaco … And Admits To Reading LetsRun.com To Try To Figure Out What Was Going On Jager was on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast for nearly an hour in his first public comments since being listed in the Fancy Bears hack. Read the highlights or listen to the whole thing. Jager revealed what he’s learned from the IAAF about why his name was on the document, he talked about his training, how he got his mind right to win Olympic silver, married life and being a homeowner. Plus, he says he had to stop reading forum posts about the hack because 50% of you were like “I know he’s been doping the whole time!”

  • Best Quotes: “Honestly my first thought (if I wasn’t on the list) would have been, oh yeah, like everyone on there is doping.”
  • “Naturally, I woke up and the like first thing that I did was I went to LetsRun just to figure out what exactly was going on.”
  • “Everyone was looking at me like they thought I was dirty at that point in time and it was a really shitty feeling.”
  • On Monaco: “I’m looking to get up to the front and go for the win.”

Paralympic News

More From The Weekend – Ultras Can Be Dangerous

Olympic Bidding

More Weekend Action

History Was Made Friday In Madrid *Compiled Results

A New Nominee For The Positive Doping Test Hall Of Fame?

gil-robertsLRC “Frequent And Passionate” Kissing, Moxylong, And An Indian Chemist: Gil Roberts’ Doping Case Is the Strangest One Of 2017 Over the years, there have been some entertaining stories that have been used to get people off (or at least try) from positive doping tests – from a gay man making out with a female Craigslist encounter to five bottles of beer and sex at least four times with the wife. We’ve got a new doozy for you.
*MB: “Frequent and Passionate” Kissing Results in US 400 Man Gil Roberts Avoiding Doping Suspension

NCAA News

The Week That Was

LRCWTW: Women Vs. Men, The Boilermaker Turns 40, Konstanze Klosterhalfen Is Only 20, & Jakob Ingebrigtsen Is Younger Than LetsRun.com

We span the globe to get you up to speed on what's been happening in the track and field world the last two weeks.

Sprint / Field Event News

2017 Monaco is Friday  Schedule, entries, results * TV & streaming (2-4 pm ET)

MAtt Centrowitz Wins GoldLRC 2017 Monaco Diamond League Preview: Bolt’s Final Test, van Niekerk in the 400, Jager Looks to End US DL Steeple Drought, & Centro vs. Kiprop in a Stacked 1500 Christmas comes in July for track fans as the Monaco meet is unreal. Despite his recent 1:49 bomb, the Olympic champ Matthew Centrowitz tell us he’s really optimistic, “I think I’m definitely rounding into really good form and I’m excited about the progression I’ve had since USAs.”
*MB: Official 2017 Monaco DL Discussion Thread – Oh baby what a meet

International Distance News

Upcoming Mile Action

Distance News

Junior / Youth News

Doping / Corruption

Big Pub For Sydney M

Crossover Star: Sydney McLaughlin Is On The Cover Of Sports Illustrated The amount of money she’s going to make when she goes pro will be insane.

Speaking Of Covers: Kirby Lee Is A Track And Field Legend Behind The Camera

The Olympic Channel Has Launched In The US

Distance News

Upcoming Distance Action

Track And Field In The Real World

LRCSports Radio In Dallas Talks Track And Field: "I think the WNBA is laughing at these guys."

The good news is track and field got discussed on the radio as one of the hosts saw The Freeze race at the TrackTown Summer Series meet on TV. The bad news is they ridiculed the idea track could be popular anywhere and the concept of a track league in the US.

US Marathon News: Ritz To Brooks

Dathan Ritzenhein shows off his new Hansons Brooks kit (photo by Delachaise Jackson for Brooks; used with permission)RRWThree-Time Olympian Dathan Ritzenhein Has Joined The Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project Since 180 days had passed since Ritz’s Nike contract expired, he was free to sign and he chose to go with Brooks.
*MB:Breaking: Dathan Ritzenhein has joined the Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project

2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials Standards Announced The marathon standards stay at 2:19 and 2:45, but the half marks are quicker at 64:00 and 73:00 (dropped from 65:00 and 75:00 in 2016).
*MB:USATF Announces 2020 Olympic Trials Marathon qualifying standards

Early Week Results

Random / Interesting

From The NCAA

LetsJump.com

World Under-18 Champs Continue In Kenya & European U-23 Champs in Poland *U18 Results*Event-By-Event Recaps*Live Streaming Info (Blocked In USA) *European U-23 Results*U-23 Live Stream

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Interesting Reads

News From Japan / Nike Oregon Project News

Sprints And Jumps

Olympic / Paralympic News

Interesting Distance News

2017 USAs Prediction Contest

LRC Who Won Our 2017 Running Warehouse USAs Prediction Contest? A Pro, An Olympic Trials Qualifier, A 3:40 1,500m Runner And An All-State High School Runner See who the kings and queens of LetsRun.com are. Our contest winners this time are by far the most impressive group running-wise in the history of contest winners on LRC.