Archived Homepage For July 27, 2017
Archived Homepage For July 27, 2017

MB: Ethiopian steepler Chala Beyo gets screwed over by federation and left of WC team – Punches coach and gets banned for 2 years Beyo was third at the Ethiopian Trials and is the third fastest Ethiopian on the year but was left off their Worlds team.

Week That Was

Screenshot (1482)LRC Monaco Madness Makes Jager The Worlds Favorite?, Eilish McColgan Is Faster Than Her Mom, Sammy Watson, Shalane Flanagan, Morgan McDonald Keep Rolling Jager, Ajee Wilson, and Emmanuel Korir turned heads in Monaco, but quietly Sammy Watson, Shalane Flanagan and Morgan McDonald kept on impressing.

Free Entertainment To Get You Through Hump Day

Distance News

More Results From The Weekend

The 2017 Paralympics Were A Huge Success in London *Results

2017 Monaco *Compiled Results*TV & Streaming

Screenshot (1486)LRC Evan Jager Crushes 8:01.29 World Leader In Monaco To Become First Non-African Man To Win A Diamond League Steeplechase & Establish Himself As The Favorite At WorldsJager looked in total control as he demolished the field over the final lap to win by over 6 seconds.

Screenshot (1443)LRC Ajee Wilson Smashes The American 800-Meter Record, Runs 1:55.61 In Monaco(updated) Wilson’s incredible run wasn’t good enough to get her a victory or a runner-up finish but she did put a scare into the Olympic gold and silver medalists Caster Semenya and Francine Niyonsaba.

Screenshot 2017-07-21 at 8.47.54 PMLRC2017 Herculis Recap: Usain Bolt (9.95) Is Back, Emmanuel Korir (1:43.10 800) & Elijah Manangoi (3:28.80 1,500) Rip World Leaders Bolt beat Isiah Young by .03 but looked to have more in the tank while fellow Olympic champs Matthew Centrowitz and Asbel Kiprop struggled in the 1,500. Hellen Obiri rocked the 3,000 (8:23.14) as Wayde van Niekerk was pushed hard in the 400 by Botswana’s Isaac Makwala.

*IAAF:Van Niekerk Pushed All The Way In Monaco If you thought van Niekerk was auto gold in London, Botswana’s Isaac Makwala wants you to guess again.
*IAAF:Usain Bolt Wins With Season’s Best Bolt: “It was good, I’m going in the right direction, there’s still a lot of work to do.”
*The Telegraph:“Usain Bolt Produces Season’s Best 9.95 Victory In Timely Boost Ahead Of London” On the claim that Bolt had De Grasse “booted” from Monaco, De Grasse said, “That was not true. I was never supposed to race Usain here.”

Monaco Message Board Talk:

Doping News

LA 2024 Or $2028???

LA Mayor Says 2024/2028 Olympic Decision Could Come Next Week And LA Will Likely Be 2028Eric Garcetti: “Twenty-twenty-four is not probably most likely to happen, even though the Olympics would be smart to pick us for 2024. … That said, they are making it financially – and we are negotiating this – so attractive we would be stupid not to take 2028.”

Pre-Worlds African News – Say It Ain’t So, Kenny B

Sprint Stuff

The World’s Countries Prepare – 11 Days Until London 2017


Q&A With Emily Infeld, Who Reveals Her Toughest Workout Is 2 Sets Of Mile, Mile, 800, 800, 4 X 400 We’re disappointed to learn her favorite athlete is Lebron James.

July 24 – Happy Founders Day

Random But Interesting

Friday Was The 10th Anniversary Of Webb’s 3:46.91

Recommended Read:What Is Alan Webb Doing Running A Mobile Truck Repair Business On An Island In Portland? Webb and his wife Julia have started their own business and it has absolutely nothing to do with running. On the 10th anniversary of his 3:46 mile American record run, catch up with Webb and find out what America’s fastest-ever miler is doing with retirement from endurance sports.

Distance News

LetsJump.com

Mile News

Irish And Polish Champs Were This Weekend

Saturday: *Heusden Results

Emily Infeld Your Lone US Distance Medallist from BeijingMB: 2017 Heusden Results – Infeld becomes 15th US women to break 15:00, Quigley runs huge 1500 pb, Efraimson just misses, True 13:10 and much more Tons of US WC team members ran, including Kate Grace (2:03), Ryan Hill and Eric Jenkins (3:37), Colleen Quigley (4:03), Hassan Mead (13:11), and Emily Infeld (14:56). Non-WC times from Americans included Alexa Efraimson at 4:04, Shalane Flanagan at 14:58 and Ben True at 13:10.

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.”