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Quote Of The Day

“Maybe the trickiest decision for elite athletes is knowing when is when, accurately weighing twinkling star with emptying hourglass, distinguishing long shadows from darkness. Complicating the calculations are money and celebrity, and the result too often is the pitiful shell of a former self. … Bolt should have sailed into the Jamaican sunset after the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where he won his obligatory three gold medals … If Bolt was courageous but imprudent, the 40-year-old ‘Money’ Mayweather was cowardly but ingenious. In boxing you can pick your opponent, and he did with a nod toward his legacy and his nickname: shunning the sport’s top contenders for an MMA fighter who had lost three times in UFC and never boxed professionally … Their final acts may have played differently on stage, but their departures leave similarly toxic exhaust fumes. Both were transcendent figures, and despite their best intentions they ultimately elevated themselves more than their declining sports.”

– The San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Mark Zeigler, comparing and contrasting the way Usain Bolt and Floyd Mayweather ended their careers last month.

David Torrence Mile Results Race Video

LRC Results: Emily Lipari And Chris O’Hare Win Hoka One One Long Island Miles In the men’s race, Chris O’Hare held off Nick Willis as the three WC finalists went 1-2-3. Brenda Martinez led the women’s race virtually the entire way before being gunned down in the final meters. *Race Video
*MB: Official 2017 Hoka One One Long Island Mile Discussion Thread
*High School Coach Lalo Diaz Reflects On The Life, Career Of His Former Athlete David Torrence
*David Torrence Tribute At HOKA ONE ONE Long Island Mile The race has been renamed the David Torrence Mile in his honor.

Random / Interesting

Opinion Piece:South African Journalist Calls Oscar Pistorius Case A “Miscarriage Of Justice” The writer argues that South Africa was so eager to prove that justice is equal regardless of position or wealth, that they set on making Pistorius guilty from the start.
Concussion Doctor Says Kids Shouldn’t Play Contact Sports Before Age 18 Track and field made the doctor’s cut for sports that are okay for kids.
What Are The Best-Ever Marks For Place In Each Event? A lot of marks were set this year, especially in the men’s shot put.
Track And Swimming Paralympic Events Cut For Tokyo 2020 There will be the same number of athletes, but fewer medals handed out, which is good because there are still way too many.

NCAA News: Disasters Continue To Impact Early Season XC

Oregon XC Preview Cancelled Due To Air Quality Eugene has a “hazardous” air quality rating due to the forest fires in Oregon right now.
*MB:Snowflakes get victory #2 of xc season: Oregon XC meet is cancelled due to air quality concerns
*Forest Fire Photo Gallery
University Of Miami Cancels Dual Meet Due To Hurricane Irma
Former World 110H Champ David Oliver Named Head Coach At His Alma Mater, Howard University
First NCAA XC Athletes Of The Week Are Kigen Chemadi (Middle Tennessee State) And Militsa Mircheva (Florida State)
HS: MileSplit: Hurricane Irma’s Impact On Florida XC Weekend

More Distance News

Emma Coburn Blogs About Juggling Her Busy Life As Athlete, Race Director And Bride To Be Coburn is racing the Fifth Avenue Mile on Sunday, then is organizing a race in her hometown in Colorado at the end of the month before getting married on October 14th.
Wilson Kipsang Is Confident He Can Lower The Marathon WR In Berlin Kipsang: “If you compare me with those guys (Bekele and Kipchoge), I stand a chance because having broken the world record before, and having more experience …”
One We Missed:Michael Wardian Completed The Leadville 100 Miler And The Grueling Pikes Peak Marathon In The Same Weekend (With Only 6 Hours Rest Between) Wardian finished 10th in Leadville and then won Pikes Peak in a CR.
Athletics Illustrated Q&A With Michael Wardian Wardian talks about being a lacrosse player in college, some of his future crazy ultra running plans and doing his first beer mile.
CNN:Is The Great Wall Marathon The World’s “Most Picturesque Endurance Race?” You can definitely get yourself some pretty amazing race photos.

Upcoming Action

US 20k Champs *Results

LRC Galen Rupp Edges Leonard Korir For 2017 USA 20km Title At Faxon Law New Haven Road Race (Video) Jordan Hasay dominated the women’s race. Rupp won in 59:04 (62:18 half marathon pace). Hasay won in 66:35 (70:14 half pace).
*MB: Official US 20k Champs Discussion Thread
*MB: Vaporfly 4% wins men’s and women’s USA 20K Road Champs
*MB: NOP Salazar Domination: Rupp, Hasay win USATF 20K Champs

Hartford Courant: Hasay Faces New Haven 20K With New Focus
New Haven Register:Olympic Medalist Galen Rupp Joins Faxon Law New Haven Road Race

Some Idolize Bolt, Others Do Not

Wow: Jamaican Journalist Thinks Jamaica Should Build Tourism Industry Around Usain Bolt As a result, he wants to see the following: “… (renaming) the road from Duncans to Martha Brae as the Usain Bolt Highway; the renaming of the Trelawny Stadium, the Usain Bolt Stadium of Excellence, the renaming of the William Knibb High School the Usain Bolt High School; the erection of a Usain Bolt statue in Falmouth; and finally, the creation of a Usain Bolt Museum in Sherwood Content.”
Noah Lyles Explains Why He Respects And Admires Usain Bolt But Doesn’t Idolize Him
Yohan Blake Says Usain Bolt Wants Him To Take Over As The Best Sprinter In The World

A Bunch More Nice Reads On David Torrence

Recommended Read:Will Leer, Chanelle Price, Kyle Merber And Others Share Some Inside Stories On David Torrence Torrence loved board games, wanted to be the first person to run a sub-4 mile barefoot on grass, did plyos and pushups at the track at 11PM after winning the Long Island Mile and was quite obviously an amazing person and friend.
AZCentral.com:Olympic Runner David Torrence Had “Found A Home” With Altis Training Group In Phoenix Before His Death Coach Ricky Soos says, “Until you had a conversation with him, you can’t explain how enthusiastic he was about any topic.”
Twin Cities Mile Race Director Remembers Three-Time Winner David TorrenceVirginia Brophy Achman: “David was generous in victory; often sharing some of his winnings in free pints for race organizers and fellow runners after the event.”
David Torrence Died At The Same Age As His Father, Who Died In 1992 Of A Brain Aneurysm This report says Torrence went into the pool after a morning run. Torrence’s coach, John Cook, said, “He’s a very good swimmer. There is no way he could just drown, especially in a pool. Even if he gets a cramp.”
MB:How was the Dave Torrence Downhill Mile last night?

Hurricane News

Video Interview With Steve Magness About Training Through The Hurricane Magness talks about being resourceful to get in workouts with tactics like finding high ground to run on or even working out in parking garages.
MileSplit:Flooded With Disaster, Kingwood High School Runs Toward Recovery The XC team was hopeful for starting a good season, but the flooding has the school, track and local running routes under a few feet of water.

Jamaica / Bolt Updates

Usain Bolt Hurricane Donation Story Is A Hoax You may have read somewhere that Bolt donated $150 million to Hurricane Harvey victims, and the story apparently got over 25,000 likes on Facebook, but it’s not true. *Fake Bolt Story
Usain Bolt Statue To Be Unveiled In Jamaica In October
The Jamaica Gleaner:Preparing The Next Usain Bolt “There are (potentially) other Usains in our midst. All it will take to bring them to the fore is parenting, identification, mentoring and coaching.” … We’d also add freakish talent.
An Open Letter To JAAA President Warren Blake On The “Dissatisfaction” In Jamaica’s 2017 Worlds Performance Only 4 medals leaves this Jamaican columnist wondering if the reports of strife among the team (including an altercation between Stephenie Ann McPherson and Shericka Jackson) hurt their performances.
Japanese Junior Sprinter Hijiri Aomi Joins Racers Track Club In Jamaica

Fall Marathon Season Is Near

Good Read:Pat Butcher Calls Berlin 2017 The “Best Elite Trio In A Marathon” Since Khalid Khannouchi, Paul Tergat And Haile Gebrselassie In London 2002 Butcher also discusses the “advancing years” of the Berlin trio which are probably even more advanced than they are on paper.
Abel Kirui Focused On Defending His Chicago Marathon Title This article is a joke as it doesn’t even mention Olympic medalists Feyisa Lelisa or Galen Rupp and calls Chicago 2017 “one of the strongest fields ever assembled.”
Gladys Cherono Shakes Off Hip Injury, Eyes Redemption In Berlin Cherono won Berlin in 2015 with 2:19:25, but injury has kept her from running any marathons in 2016 (she was 5th in Boston this year).
Kenyan Journalist Calls Berlin 2017 “Tough To Call” Before Explaining Why He’s Confident Eliud Kipchoge Will Win The race may end up being close, but on paper, picking the most likely winner is not a “tough call.”

RIP David Torrence – November 26, 1985 – August 28, 2017

LRCRemembering David Torrence: Olympian, US Champion, US And Peruvian National Record Holder And Legendary Downhill MilerTorrence has died unexpectedly way too young at age 31.
*MB:David Torrence is Dead: RIP / Appreciation Thread

LRC “A Beautiful, Genuine Soul”: The Running World Shares Its Tributes To David Torrence He will be missed.

Doping Updates

Doping Report Reveals That 30% Of The Athletes At 2011 Worlds Admitted To Doping About half the athletes at Worlds participated in an anonymous survey about doping. Over 30% admitted to doping, but only 0.5% of athletes at 2011 Worlds (where all were tested) tested positive. *AP Article
The Guardian: Sport Doping Study Revealing Wider Usage Published After “Scandalous” Delay The research took almost 6 years to officially come out as the IAAF had issues with it and one author accused them of purposely blocking its release.
AP:Ethiopia Shuts Down Drug Store Selling Banned Substances Ethiopia’s anti-doping office confirmed the pharmacy was offering EPO after they investigated in response to the most recent ARD documentary.

Not Your Everyday News

Drunk Hood To Coast Runner Accused Of Stealing Porta-Potty Pickup Truck And Running Over A RunnerDavid Blackmon drove through a field where runners were resting, hitting Cynthia Gillespie and fleeing the scene. Blackmon was arrested while Gillespie was lucky to escape with only bruises.
*Hood To Coast Runner “Very Lucky To Be Alive” After Being Run Over And Dragged By Drunk Pickup Truck Driver
GB’s Former World 110H Champ And BBC Commentator Colin Jackson Comes Out As Gay The 50-year-old Jackson says the reason he had not previously spoken of his sexuality was to avoid it being “sensationalized.”
*The Telegraph Article Jackson came out in an interview for a Swedish television documentary, “Rainbow Heroes.”
*MB:Colin Jackson comes out
Woodlands High School XC Coach Shares How His Team Has Been Dealing With The Hurricane Rain In Texas Coach Juris Green: “Cross country is not supposed to be a clean sport, if you don’t finish muddy, there’s something wrong with that course. I think we’ll have every opportunity to get some really good cross country in.”
Thomas Bach Says Violent Video Games Have “No Place At The Olympics” But E-Sports Are Still In The Running
Video Blog On Cool Underground Pole Vault Competition In A Sand MineJeff Coover cleared 5.50m to set the American “underground pole vault” record.

Nick Willis Shares His Wisdom

LRC Nick Willis Q&A, Part II: The Importance Of Moderation, Taoufik Makhloufi’s Absence & Asbel Kiprop’s 5K Potential Willis reveals how he learned his come-from-behind strategy at the 2002 World Juniors in Jamaica – “conserve your energy throughout a race as much as possible and then you let rip on the last lap.”
*MB: Nick Willis shares his wisdom with LetsRun.com

LRC Nick Willis Q&A, Part I: His Abbreviated Buildup For Worlds, The Key To His Longevity, And The Brilliance Of Jenny Simpson

Sprint Stuff

Good Read:The San Diego Union-Tribune:“The Uneasy Farewell Of Two Sport Icons” Mark Ziegler compares and contrasts the way Usain Bolt and Floyd Mayweather ended their careers.
Xie Zhenye Completes Chinese Champs 100/200 Double With A 20.20 National Record This after Xie had gotten an upset win in the 100m, running a 10.04 PR to beat NR holder Su Bingtian.
Good Read:IAAF Profile:Germany’s Pamela Dutkiewicz Daring To Dream After Joining The Greats With 100H Bronze In London Against so many top big name hurdlers, Dutkiewicz didn’t expect a medal, but beat out WR holder Keni Harrison for the last medal.
The Telegraph:Perfect Suits, Snap-Back Caps And Hublot Watches: Usain Bolt Shares His Life’s Luxuries Fast cars, expensive watches, amazing locations … the life you could live if you were paid $34.2 million.

Doping Updates

Russia To Remain Suspended By IPC Until At Least November With Athletes To Compete As Neutrals In 2018 Winter Olympic Qualifiers In the latest meeting, the IPC ruled that seven of the reinstatement criteria have still not been fulfilled.
India’s Asian Shot Put Champion Manpreet Kaur Fails Multiple Drug Tests

Doping / Corruption News

Richard McLaren Denies Russian Claims That State-Sponsored Doping Allegations Have Been Dropped All McLaren did was accept that his evidence only went as far as the Minister of Sport and Deputy Minister, so didn’t directly implicate President Vladimir Putin.
Russia’s “Closed Cities” To Be Open For Drug Testers Many Russian athletes trained in these cities to avoid out-of-competition testing.
A New Study Has Unveiled A New Method To Detect HGH Use In Athletes The new method would lengthen the period of detection from when the athlete took HGH.
Brazil Olympic Chief Accused Of Paying $2 Million Bribe To Lamine Diack For His And Others’ Votes In Rio 2016 Bid

More Recent Results

World Discus Silver Medalist Daniel Stahl Leads Sweden To Record-Breaking Victory At Sweden Vs. Finland Finnkampen Meet Stahl threw 67.37m to break a meet record from 1973. In distance action, Sweden’s Meraf Bahta won a strange double with the 800 (2:04) and 10,000 (33:00).
Jefferey Eggleston (65:55) And Japan’s Mao Ichiyama (73:50) Win Rock ‘N’ Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon
France’s Francois D’Haene Wins The Ultra Trail Mont-Blanc Race (UTMB) Over Spain’s Kilian Jornet As USA’s Tim Tollefson Takes 3rd Spain’s Núria Picas won a close woman’s race over Andrea Huser. *Results
Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk And Pawel Fajdek Win 2017 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge Series

Drugs/Corruption

The Head Of Russia’s Anti-Doping Commission Claims That Richard McLaren Has Dropped His Allegations Of State-Sponsored Doping This claim has yet to be confirmed by McLaren or WADA.
Brazilian And French Investigators Search House Of Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman In Vote-Buying Probe Nuzman is among those accused of bribing IOC members to get votes for the 2016 Rio Games bid.

Non-Distance Post-Worlds News

Led By Miller-Uibo, Tons Of Non-WC Winners Won The DL Final In Brussels And Zurich Some are calling the meets the Redemption Games as the following stars all won a DL title but not a World title: Kyron McMaster, Noah Lyles, Elaine Thompson, Ivana Spanvic, Nijel Amos, Dalilah Muhammad, Sergey Shubenkov, Chijindu Ujah, Timothy Cheruiyot, Isaac Makwala, Darrell Hill.
Daley Thompson’s Old Coach, Frank Dick, Slams UK Athletic Culture “We are too comfortable being ‘almost.’ … The athletics culture in Britain is soft. We don’t have the hardness and commitment to win.”
Minnesota’s Emerald Egwim Writes Long Letter Exposing Interesting/Potentially Corrupt Coaching Decision By Nigeria For 4 X 400 At Worlds The US-based runner ran on the team in the prelims but then a coach replaced her with his own personal runner who flew in from Nigeria the day before the final. The team ran slower in the final. Their time from the prelims would have medaled.
Next Year’s GB Vs. USA Meet Will Be Called “The Meet,” Will Take Place On July 21 And Will Feature An “Innovative And New” Two-Hour Format

General Distance News

Joe “Stringbean” McConaughy Sets Fastest Known Time On Appalachian Trail Running unsupported, McConaughy finished the 2190-mile route in 45 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes, breaking Karl Meltzer‘s record by about ten hours even though Meltzer was supported.
MB:Jakob Ingebrigsten Continues His Racing Season With 8:00 Victory At Norwegian Youth Championships This came about an hour after he finished second in the 400. *Video
Tokyo 2020 Is Growing Trees Along The Olympic Marathon Course To Provide Cool Shade For Runners The branches are being pruned in a specific way to encourage the growth of larger branches to block the sun.
Athletics Illustrated Q&A With GB 800 Woman Lynsey Sharp Sharp is a very low-mileage mid-d runner doing about 30 miles a week with a her longest run coming to about 45 minutes in the winter.
Carrie Tollefson Podcast Q&A With Amy Cragg On Her World Marathon Bronze, The BTC And 2018 Plans
#4 Ranked Arkansas Men Open XC Season With Dual Meet Sweep Against Tulsa And Oklahoma

Drug News

Positive Test On Bahamas World Champs Athlete Still Under Investigation The athlete still hasn’t been identified as they are waiting for results of the “B” sample.
RUSADA Appoints New Director General Yury Ganus was approved from a list of around 700 candidates.
Institute Of National Anti-Doping Organisations (iNADO) Head Doesn’t Think A Fine Is A Big Enough Sanction For Russia’s Winter Sports Joseph de Pencier: “If it is only a fine, however, it feels like ‘pay to play,’ which would be very disappointing.”
WADA Prioritizing Research On The Extent Of Doping In Sports WADA would like to do more studies like the recent one (which the IAAF blocked for 6 years) which reported that over 30% of the athletes at 2011 Worlds were doping.
WADA Takes Financial Hit After Being Forced To Scrap Upgrade To Athlete Whereabouts System
David Owen:Would You ADAMS And Eve It? Problems With New Data Management System Contributed To Another Tough Year For WADA In 2016

LRC Opinion

LRCWeek That Was: Mo Farah’s Epic Track Career Is Over, Ajee Wilson’s Incredible 2017 Continues, Plus Usain Bolt And Conor McGregor We look at all the action on the track plus a look at the 2017 Chicago Marathon field again.

LRC “I Love Pre, But This Meet Was Better”: A First-Timer’s Thoughts On Weltklasse Zurich Jon Gault shares his experience of the Diamond League finale.

Pre-Brussels News

LRC 2017 Memorial Van Damme Preview: Jager & Kipruto Chase Sub-8:00, Jenny Simpson Tries To Turn It Around, Amos & Obiri Look To Cap Dominant Seasons All great things have to come to an end and the 2017 IAAF Diamond League season concludes with the 2017 Memorial Van Damme in Brussels on Friday. We break it down for you.

USA’s Darrell Hill Gets Surprise Win Over Ryan Crouser To Take Diamond League Shot Put Title And $50,000 Prize Money Hill was only 4th at USAs and 11th at Worlds, but came through clutch with a big PR on his final throw in Brussels to snipe the DL trophy from Crouser. World champ Tom Walsh was just 6th.
IAAF: Brittney Reese Vs. Darya Klishina And Tianna Bartoletta In The LJ, Tom Walsh Vs. Ryan Crouser In The SP, Elaine Thompson In The 100 Mariya Lasitskene leads the HJ and Christian Taylor the TJ.
Elaine Thompson Has One Last Chance To Redeem Herself Thompson lost both her races at Worlds as well as the first DL final in Zurich.

Masters News

Kevin Castille Is USATF Athlete Of The Week After Breaking Two Masters Records Castille won the USATF Masters 1 Mile Road Champs in a 4:24 age group record and broke Bill Rodgers‘ US Masters 45-49 10 mile record by over 3 minutes with 49:36 at the Crim 10.
Twitter Video:Hurricane Doesn’t Stop Veteran Runner From Putting In Some Shirtless Miles

Track Season Is Winding Down *Zagreb Results

Zagreb:48 Hours After Setting 9:03.70 PR In Berlin, Kenya’s Norah Jeruto Gets Another Dominant Win In 9:04.56 In other distance action, Ajee Wilson got a controlled 800 win in 1:59.13 and Worlds 5th placer Selemon Barega won the 3,000 in 7:38 as Ben True and Ben Blankenship finished mid-pack. In the sprints, Yohan Blake ran 10.05 to beat Michael Rodgers and Asafa Powell and Sergey Shubenkov ran 13.12 to win over Devon Allen (13.19). Off the track Sandra Perkovic highlighted with two discus throws over 70m (70.83m best) and Sam Kendricks (5.60m PV) and Kamila Licwinko (1.96m HJ) took the jumps.
Tom Walsh Wins Zagreb Street Meet Shot Put With 21.50m
Rovereto:Kenyan 800 Runner Wycliffe Kinyamal Clocks 1:43.84 To Post The 4th-Fastest Time In 2017 Olympic and Worlds 800m silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba won the women’s race in 2:01.14.
Germany’s Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch Wins Eberstadt HJ Meet With 2.00m Clearance Jungfleisch beat out Worlds medalists Kamila Licwinko and Yulia Levchenko.
Friday: Brussels Provisional Entry Lists

Get Ready For XC

More Distance News

Kate Grace Leaves The Drew Wartenburg/Kim Conley-Led NorCal Distance Project; Moves To Portland
*MB:Kate Grace leaves NorCal Distance Project with “sadness and gratitude” – moves to Portland
Good Read:Eliud Kipchoge Explains How The Greatest Challenge Of His Career Has Been Dealing With The Pressure Before Races “In my younger days, I used to struggle. I couldn’t sleep before races and I couldn’t eat on the morning of my race.”
European-Athletics:Jakob Ingebrigsten Stole The Show At Norwegian Champs He won three titles (1,500, 5,000, steeple) and bronze in another (800). Another meet highlight was Karoline Grovdal‘s 9:13 NR in the steeple.
*MB:16-Year-Old Jakob Ingebrigsten Runs 13:35 To Win Norwegian National Champs
NCAA DI Men’s Pre-Season Regional XC Rankings
NCAA DI Women’s Pre-Season Regional XC Rankings

Horizontal Jumping News

Christian Taylor Is Taking A Break From The TJ In 2018 To Run The 400 Taylor’s PR is 45.17 from 2014.
Former World And Four-Time European Long Jump Champion Heike Drechsler Will Work As An Official During The 2018 European Champs Drechsler had her first experience as an official raking the long jump pit during the German Youth Championships.
Video Interview: Christian Taylor Reflects On Winning His First Olympic Gold At London 2012
Tips For Sport And Life From Uruguay’s South American Champs Gold Long Jumper Emiliano Lasa

Cheserek Gets Paid

Edward Cheserek Signs Endorsement Deal With Skechers One of the greatest collegiate distance runners in history, who made his name at a school synonymous with Nike, has signed with Skechers – just as the letsrun.com message board predicted way back on August 21st – actually, make that August 11th.

2017 Diamond League / Track Season Review

Good Read:The Telegraph:London 2017 Captured The Masses, But Usain Bolt And Mo Farah Must Be Replaced A lot of interesting analysis from the 2017 season on the state of the sport, doping and individual athletes. Is Keni Harrison the new Asafa Powell?
So Much For The Gender Pay Gap?Elaine Thompson Tops The 2017 Diamond League Prize Money List With $134,000 While Five Out Of The Top Six Are Women Mutaz Essa Barshim was the first man with $100,000 in prize money to put him 4th on the list.
SPIKES Highlights Some Of The Top Performances From The 2017 Diamond League Season
Random:Learn The Chords For The Diamond League Theme Song

Bolt Updates

Usain Bolt To Get Two Statues In Jamaica, Not Just One One will be at the national stadium and the other possibly in the region where Bolt was born.
Usain Bolt Visits Japan, Says He Wants To Do More Charity Work And Still Contemplating Playing Soccer He also mentioned possibly becoming a track analyst.
Usain Bolt Predicts His World Records Could Stand For 15-20 Years “I think our era … was the best era of athletes. If it was going to be broken, it would have been broken in this era, so I think I have at least 15 to 20 more years.”

Distance News On A Slow Weekend

Brit Katrina Wootton Ran A Massive 41.64-Second PR Of 31:45.63 Over The Weekend At Age 32 She now leads the 2017 UK list.
Mo Farah Says Queen Elizabeth “Kind Of Knew Who I Was”
Farah Also Says He’s Moving Back To The UK After His Career Is Over But Not Simply Because Donald Trump Is President “Trump doesn’t help does he? That’s not the reason though, the reason is I miss it, we have all the family (in the UK).”
Bowerman Track Club’s Betsy Saina Has Been Preparing For Her Marathon Debut In New York By Training In Kenya Under Patrick Sang The Last Two Months
Klosterhalfen Reflects On Her Amazing Campaign, Is Already Eyeing 2018 When European Champs In Berlin Will Be A Huge Focus Next up for her is European XC in December. Does she race the U23s or go in the senor division?
Still Less Than 500 Americans Have Broken 4:00 In The Mile TFN lists it at 492.
Interesting Brother Of Famous Kenyan (His Name Has Now Been Withheld) Gives Specifics About How Lots Of Kenyan And Ugandan Athletes Are Age Cheats He says Benjamin Kiplagat steepled at World Juniors at 28. We mentioned who he was related to earlier but now he wants that private.
Duke Holds Its Opening Cross-Country Race – On A Track – Because It Was Raining

2017 Brussels DLFull ResultsTV & Streaming Information

LRC2017 Brussels Diamond League Recap: World Champs Conseslus Kipruto, Faith Kipyegon And Hellen Obiri Earn Diamond League Titles In the men’s steeple, Evan Jager went for it but ran out of steam while Jenny Simpson ran a big seasonal best in the 1,500 but got smoked. *FULL RESULTS

America’s Next BIG Track Star Is HereLRC20-Year-Old Noah Lyles Wins 2017 Diamond League 200 Final In BrusselsHow do you spell “total stud”? NOAH.

MB:Official 2017 Brussels DL discussion thread – Say it ain’t so The 2017 season end is near.
IAAF:Shaunae Miller-Uibo Completes 200/400 Diamond League Double With World-Leading 49.46Ivana Spanovic didn’t win a LJ medal at Worlds, but beat out both Tianna Bartoletta and Brittney Reese here while Christian Taylor won the TJ over Will Claye.
Elaine Thompson Ends 2017 With Some Redemption By Winning 100m In 10.92
IAAF #2:Russian Neutrals Have Their Day As Maria Lasitskene Stays Perfect In The HJ With A 2.02m Win And Sergey Shubenkov Takes The 100H In 13.14
There Were Over 100 Athletes That Didn’t Accept A Spot In The 2017 Diamond League Final Injuries and burnout kept a lot of big name athletes from a chance at some serious prize money.
NZ’s Shot Put World Champ Tom Walsh Disappointed With 6th Place Season’s End “Really annoyed with myself for not being able to focused and do what I needed to do … today I was just trying too hard and I know when I try too hard it just doesn’t work.”

Recommended Read:The Guardian Profile On GB’s Colin Jackson – Phenomenal Athlete Who Came Out As Gay At 50 Jackson set a 110H WR at 12.91 that stood for more than a decade and he still holds the 60H WR.

Other News

Former Olympic LJ Champ Greg Rutherford Undergoes Hernia Operation Rutherford had to end his season with an ankle injury, but apparently that wasn’t all as he tweeted, “Heading down to have my groin chopped up and then reconstructed soon. They just need me to get changed … Have a tasty hernia that needs sorting out. Can’t wait.”
September 9: GB’s Diana Asher-Smith To Run The 150m At The Great North CityGames
Columnist Calls Idea Of Adding ESports To The Olympics “Equal Parts Hilarious And Embarrassing”

The Men Of The 800

World 800 Champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse Injured In “Violent Assault” Bosse says he has to end his season after suffering “multiple facial fracture” when he was attacked by three individuals.
*MB:Bosse suffers “multiple facial fractures” in a “violent assault” in casino parking lot
*Man Arrested In In Connection With Assault On Pierre-Ambroise Bosse The attack took place at 4AM in a casino parking lot in France. Reportedly, the three attackers had posed for a photo with Bosse.
Q&A With GB’s Worlds 800 4th Placer Kyle Langford Langford says he ran 1:45 as a teenager off less than 20 miles per week.

2017 New York International Field Released

MB:Defending Champs Lead The Way In New York’s International Field Including Ghebreslassie, the men’s field features 6 sub-2:08 guys including Desisa and Kamworor. Including Keitany, the women’s field features three sub-2:20 women and five sub-2:22s.