– BBC writer Matt Davis explaining the difficulty and hoops that need to be jumped through in order to reallocate Olympic medals.
Video 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.
LRC #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.
LRC 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
LRC Justin Gatlin Steals The Show In Usain Bolt’s Final 100M Race To Win 2017 World Title At Age 35 Usain Bolt did the unthinkable once again – he lost. We put in perspective.
LRC Final (updated) Almaz Ayana Laps Nearly The Entire Field To Win Gold In The Women’s 10,000 In One of The Finest Displays In Women’s Distance Running History The Chinese level of distance running is now the reality. Updated with comments from Molly Huddle, Emily Infeld and Emily Sisson.
*MB: Molly Huddle on the Ethiopians: “I feel like they get away with a lot.”
*MB: Almaz Ayana – guts and glory
*MB:Official 2017 Worlds Day 2 Discussion Thread
Mason Finley Of USA Talks About Getting Historic Bronze It’s not easy being a discus thrower full-time as he lives at home with his mom to save money.
Full Coverage In Our 2017 London Special Section
LRCLast Day Of World Champs Live Thread
LRC 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.
LRC 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.
LRC 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
UNBELIEVABLE LRC FinalAmericans Emma Coburn And Courtney Frerichs Pull Off Incomprehensible Upset And Go 1-2 In Women’s SteepleIn a shocking upset on a scale not seen in American distance circles since perhaps when Billy Mills won Olympic gold in the 10,000 in 1964, Americans Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs won gold and silver in the women’s steeplechase tonight at the 2017 IAAF World Championships.
*MB:!@#@!#@#@!# USA 1-2 IN STEEEPLE !@#@!#@!#@!#@!#
*MB:Kenyan steeplers go home DEVASTATED
*MB: Courtney Frerichs gets 2nd!!!!
*MB:Coburn 5 sec PB for gold, Frerichs 16 sec PB for silver. USA USA USA meh
*MB: Beatrice Chepkoech Would Have Won GOLD
*MB: IMAGINE IF QUIGLEY HADNT OF BEEN DQ’D! 1-2-3!!
Race Video:LRC Watch Emma Coburn And Courtney Frerichs Stun The World And Go 1-2 In Women’s Steeplechase At 2017 World Track And Field Champs (Video)
*Video Of Beatrice Chepkoech’s Wrong Turn At The Water Jump
LRC Women’s 400: Shaunae Miller-Uibo & Allyson Felix Falter In Home Straight As Phyllis Francis Comes Up Huge To Win 2017 World Title Crazy race. *Race Video Here
Isaac Makwala – Wayde van Niekerk 200m Final Is Set After Makwala Is Allowed To Run Special Time Trial To Qualify For Semis And Then Makes Final 2 Hours Later
*Video Of Makwala’s 2 Races
*IAAF Is Furious Of BBC’s Coverage Of Makwala’s Situation Well, they must be furious with us as well as we think he should have been allowed to run even if he had the norovirus.
*IAAF Considers Formal Action Against BBC For Grilling Medical Expert On Live TV
*USA’s Ameer Webb Thinks It Was Unfair For Makwala To Get To Run A Solo 200 “I wish I could have run a prelim by myself knowing the time I had to beat was 20.50. It is a little bit I feel unfair. It is what it is and I’ve got to line up against him.”
*The Guardian: “Isaac Makwala’s Lone Furrow Exposes Bungling Of Shambolic IAAF”
*Yohan Blake Said His Leg Pulsed Coming Off Turn And It Prevented Him From Making Final
LRC 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
LRC 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
LRC 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
LRC 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?
LRC 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.
LRC Unbeatable: The Amazing Mo Farah Wins The 10,000 At 2017 Worlds, Earns 10th Global Gold In “Toughest Race” Of His Life He almost had to PR to do it as the Africans threw it at him but Farah held them off in 26:49.51
LRC Joshua Cheptegei Is Primed To Succeed Gebrselassie, Bekele And Farah As The World’s Next Great 10,000-Meter Runner The Ugandan turned heads first at World XC and now looks to be Farah’s successor.
Women’s 1,500 Heats: LRC All 3 Americans (Including Sara Vaughn With A PR) And 4 Brits Move On In The Best Opening Round Women’s 1,500 In History The women brought it today as 17 of the top 20 seeds moved on.
London MBoard Talk
LRC 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).
LRC 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
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.
LRC 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.
LRC 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.
LRC Final American Evan Jager Comes Up Short In Quest For Gold, Settles For America’s 1st-Ever Men’s World Championships Steeple Medal updated with analysis. Post-race video.
Discussion:French Do it Again & Appeal and Try to Have Jager DQd
*Video Of Final Lap
LRC Final Pierre-Ambroise Bosse Pulls Off Upset And Win’s Men’s 800 Title At 2017 World Track and Field Championships
Tuesday MB Talk:
LRC FinalAmy Cragg Ends America’s 34-Year Medal Drought In The Women’s Marathon At Worlds By Snagging A Surprising Bronze In London What a run for the 33-year-old.
*MB: Amy MF Cragg!!!
LRCAmy Cragg Credits Jerry Schumacher For Her Surprising Bronze In The Women’s Marathon “Jerry has completely changed my running. He has changed my life.”
LRC FinalMen’s Marathon: Kenya’s Geoffrey Kirui Follows Up Boston Victory By Winning 2017 World TitleMarathon’s got a new star and his name is Geoffrey Kirui.
*MB: WC Marathon: Tamirat Tola vs Daniel Wanjiru
*MB:World Championship Marathon late start times, does it advantage the Africans.
LRCFormer NCAA Champ Bobby Curtis Announces He’s Retiring At The End Of The Year He’ll end his career with PRs of 13:18, 27:24 and 2:11:20.
LRCMen’s Steeple Prelims: Conseslus Kipruto Reveals He’s Run One Track Session Since June; Evan Jager Leads All QualifiersJager looked good even if he was sporting a goatee he plans to shave.
*LRC VIDEO EXCLUSIVE- Evan Jager Explains His Goatee
*Running Warehouse Prediction Contest Scores Updated Through Men’s Marathon Boston champ Geoffrey Kirui has won. A husband of a US Pro is leading the way in the contest.
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
LRC The Summer Of Webb: An Inside Look At Alan Webb’s Magical 2007 Season For a few months in 2007, American Alan Webb was the world’s best miler. Ten years later, we take a look back at Webb’s magical summer.
Webb MB Talk:
*LRC Feature: 10 years ago, Alan Webb was the greatest miler on the planet. An inside look at Webb’s magical summer.
*How did Alan Webb inspire you? post your stories
*10 Years later and Centro is STILL SLOWER then Webb??????!!!!!!!
*I don’t think Webb Would Have Feared El G
*Alan Webb confirms sex is critical for running
*Greatest American Distance Runners: 1) Billy Mills, 2) Alan Webb. 3) ? 4) ? 5) ?
*“Summer of Webb” 2007- What a Joke!
*Willis’ 3:29.66 = 3:46.22 mile. Sorry Alan.
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