Archived Homepage For August 17, 2017
Archived Homepage For August 17, 2017

Sprint Stuff

British News

Falmouth Is This Weekend

Weekend Mile Aciton

4 X 100 Relay Action

bolt-finishVideo Usain Bolt Goes Out With Injury In 4 X 100 As Host Britain Pulls Upset GoldUSA was 2nd and Japan 3rd.
*MB: WHAT HAPPENED TO BOLT!!!!!

Did You Miss Usain Bolt’s Final Race? LRCWatch Usain Bolt Get Injured And Walk Across The Finish Line In His Final Race At 2017 World Track And Field Champs (Video)

Tori Bowie Leads US Women’s 4 X 100 To Gold In London Bowie became the first double gold medalist of these Worlds as she anchored Team USA to the win with UK and Jamaica taking silver and bronze.

More Worlds

Christian Taylor 2017 World ChampLRC #Jumping60: After Another World Title, Christian Taylor Going To Mountains Of France To Try To Break Jonathan Edwards’ World Record (link fixed)The attempt isn’t called #Breaking60 but like #Breaking2 it will be held one of two days depending on the weather.

quigley-coneLRC A Lifeline For Colleen Quigley? London World Champ Organizers Put Cones Out In Violation Of IAAF Rules Video evidence shows that the cone just prior to where Quigley stepped on the line on the curve was not set up on top of the line per IAAF regulations. Will her DQ be overturned?

Interviews:Kori Carter After 400mH Gold Says she wants to run 100m hurdles next year and praises Coach Floreal, who could coach 3/4 of the gold medalists in the hurdles at Worlds.
*Ramil Guliyev Says President Erdogan Called Him After He Won 200 Plus see what Wayde Van Niekerk and Isaac Makwala said after upset city in 200.

Live On The Message Boards

IAAF Turns The Men’s 400 Into A Joke

Non-Worlds Distance News

(Russian) Doping News

Some More Post-Worlds Analysis

Upcoming: Jumps World Record Attempt Wednesday

2017 IAAF London Worlds *Schedule / Results*TV & Streaming *Running Warehouse Prediction Contest *LRC Post-Race Interviews 

LRCLast Day Of World Champs Live Thread

Manangoi Wins WorldsLRC Final Training Partners Elijah Manangoi And Timothy Cheruiyot Of Kenya Go 1-2 In Men’s 1,500 As Norway’s Filip Ingebristen Snags Bronze The Kenyans have dominated the DL circuit this year and they put on a clinic on how to dominate a World Championships final thanks to a 55 on the second lap.

Screenshot 2017-08-13 17.04.26LRC Final Women’s 800: Caster Semenya Remains Unbeatable As Ajee Wilson Fights Hard For BronzeFrancine Niyonsaba and Ajee Wilson threw the best challenge at her they could, but in the end Caster Semenya was just too good and took her third world title (fifth global gold) in a PR and NR of 1:55.16.

Hellen Obiri Wins WorldsLRC Final Women’s 5,000: Hellen Obiri Takes Down Almaz Ayana To Win Her First World Championships Title The 10,000 WR holder tried to break Obiri early but Obiri unleashed a HUGE kick with 250m to go and won convincingly.

RRW: Manangoi, Obiri & Semenya All Victorious On Final Day Of IAAF World Championships

Full Worlds coverage in our 2017 IAAF London Worlds Special Section

Wednesday Distance Action

quigley-foul-2LRC Drama In The Women’s Steeplechase Prelims: Colleen Quigley Gets DQed The IAAF rule book needs to be changed or a rail needs to be built in the steeple as Colleen Quigley and Ezekiel Kemboi have both been DQed in successive years.
*Breaking: Say it ain’t so. Colleen Quigley DQd in women’s steeple
*We need to be consistent, USATF needs to protest 

Screenshot 2017-08-10 at 01.10.56LRC Men’s 5,000m Prelims: Paul Chelimo Falls And Scrapes By Into Final, A Kenyan Gets Lapped And Eric Jenkins Doesn’t Qualify Recent NCAA stars Patrick Tiernan and Justyn Knight made the final too.

LRC Wednesday At Worlds Podcast – A Look Back At The 1st Half And A Look Ahead 

Monday At Worlds

Jenny gets silverLRC Final: Women’s 1,500: Faith Kipyegon Wins Another Gold Title As Jenny Simpson Beats Caster Semenya To Nab Her Fourth Global 1,500 Medal updated A thrilling final sprint saw a five-way battle for the medals as Kipyegon just held onto the gold with Simpson timing her kick perfectly to grab silver over Semenya. GB’s Laura Muir and world leader Sifan Hassan both ran out of gas after starting their kicks too soon and finished in 4th and 5th.
*LRC Women’s 1,500 Post-Race Video Interviews Hear from Kipyegon, Simpson, Semenya and Muir.
*MB: Official 2017 Worlds Monday Discussion Thread – Women’s 1,500 Final + More

1,500 MBoard Talk

Sunday PM Worlds

100-bowieLRC Worlds Day 3: Tori Bowie Wins 100 To Complete US Sweep As Joe Kovacs (Shot Put) & Sandi Morris (Pole Vault) Earn Silver Anything can happen in sport as it was a rough day for the two US men who entered World undefeated on the year as Ryan Crouser didn’t medal in the shot and Sam Kendricks needed a third attempt final to make the PV final.
*MB: Was Joe Kovacs robbed of world title? Was his last throw really a foul?

Screenshot 2017-08-07 at 01.49.49LRC Men’s 800: Carnage In The Semifinals Sets Up A Wild Final On Tuesday; With Emmanuel Korir Out, Who Is The Favorite? None of the Americans made the final as Donavan Brazier knew he let a great opportunity get away.

Beach To Beacon 10K *Results

Major Doping News: Hajo Seppelt Goes To Ethiopia

LetsJump.com

Post-Worlds Analysis

Mo Farah Updates

Saturday Worlds

edris-wins-farah-loses-3LRC FinalThe Upsets Continue: Mo Farah Is Beaten In Men’s 5,000 At Worlds – Muktar Edris Dethrones The King The King has been dethroned in a tactical 5,000. Paul Chelimo takes bronze. Edris ran his last 4 laps in about 3:57.6 – (63.7, 62.4, 58.1, 52.4).

Farah Edris Kejelecha 2017 WorldsLRC Analysis: How Did Muktar Edris Beat Mo Farah? Farah thought the Ethiopians had the team tactic to sacrifice Kajelcha, Edris said that wasn’t the case, and no matter what it was, Edris closed in 52.3, which is hard to beat.

The Telegraph:Paul Chelimo Criticized For Cut-Throat “Mobot” Gesture On his start line gesture, Chelimo said, “It is what it is, I just meant that I was going to take Mo down.”
*2nd ArticleMuktar Edris also did the “Mobot” as he won, but said it was out of respect for Farah.
*The Guardian:“A Brave Face And A Last Lap Of Honor As Mo Farah Runs His Track Finale”

Full Worlds coverage in our 2017 IAAF London Worlds Special Section

More Worlds

LRC 2017 Worlds Official Friday Discussion Thread – M1,500 Semis, W800 Semis, WSteeple Final Emma Coburn goes for a medal – plus there’s Dafne Schippers vs. Shaunae Miller-Uibo in the women’s 200 final.

LRC Friday At Worlds Podcast – Centro Is Out, Quigley Is Out And More We get you ready for the final weekend of action.

Thursday At Worlds

centro-dflLRC Olympic Champion Matthew Centrowitz Eliminated In 1st Round Of 1,500 At 2017 World Champs Centro had nothing in the kick for home and was eliminated.

LRC Men’s 1,500 Heats: Asbel Kiprop Looks Great, Ronald Kwemoi Struggle And Robby Andrews And Johnny Gregorek Move On If you think heats are boring, then you shouldn’t be on this website. 2,000+ words of analysis.

5000-huddle-2017wLRC Final Three For Three: All Three Americans Advance To Women’s 5,000 Final At 2017 IAAF World Championships Updated with interviews. Plus Brits Laura Muir and Eilish McColgan are in as well. Muir and Shannon Rowbury said they are still eyeing the podium.

LRC Women’s 800 Heats: The Stars Look Great & All Three Americans Advance After Brenda Martinez Survives A Scare Ajee Wilson and Charlene Lipsey qualified with ease.

Sir Walter Miler

MB:Drew Hunter 3:57 FTW @ Sir Walter Miler Hunter beat out Craig Engels by .45 with Izaic Yorks third. Amanda Eccleston won the women’s race in 4:31.72 over Stephanie Garcia(4:31.87). *Results*Meet Website