NCAA XC Top 10 Countdown

LRC 2017 NCAA Men’s XC Preview: #8 Oregon & #7 Wisconsin It’s really hard to predict how traditional powers Oregon and Wisconsin will do in 2017 as Oregon lost King Ches and Wisco may or may not redshirt their star Morgan McDonald.

LRC 2017 NCAA Women’s XC Preview: #8 Penn State & #7 San Francisco Can Penn State crack the top 10 for the first time since 1994? Will San Fran do even better than they did in 2017?

LRC 2017 NCAA Men’s XC Preview: #10 Oklahoma State & #9 Iona Iona and Oklahoma State almost always finish in the top 10 at NCAAs and we think they’ll do so once again this year.

LRC 2017 NCAA Women’s XC Preview: #10 Providence & #9 Arkansas Traditional powers Arkansas and Providence had off years in 2016 but look poised to be in the top 10 once again in 2017.

• MB: Official 2017 NCAA XC Preview Discussion Thread
• Week 1 NCAA Men’s Regional XC Rankings
• Week 1 NCAA Women’s Regional XC Rankings
• Kentucky’s Jacob Thompson And Penn State’s Jillian Hunsberger Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week Thompson won Kentucky’s Bluegrass Invy while Hunsberger took the win at the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invy.

NCAA / High School News

• Will NCAAs Get A Break From Eugene?Hayward Field Renovation Pushed Back Again, 2019 Pre Classic And NCAA Championships At Risk The project is now starting next summer, two years after the originally planned start date.
• Video Interview With Chris Solinsky On Why He Wanted To Become A Coach And His New Head Coach Position At The University Of Florida
• DyeStat:Kingwood, Texas Girls Team Determined To Chase Running Goals Despite Hurricane Devastation With the school completely flooded, the students at Kingswood will have to share a neighboring school’s building by going half days for the year.
• Former Boston Marathon Winner Amby Burfoot Writes About His Nephew’s Interesting Approach To The Pre-Season Time Trial As A HS Coach In Connecticut Rather than a big all-out race, he puts them into heats of 3,200m controlled races on the track where the kids don’t know the pace, but have to follow behind the rabbit who might be an alum, an OT qualifier or a 71-year-old former Boston winner.

Today’s Doping / Corruption Updates

• Could Usain Bolt Get Back His 2008 Relay Gold? CAS Sets Date For Nesta Carter Drug Ban Appeal On November 15th, CAS will hear Carter’s appeal against the decision which stripped Jamaica (and Usain Bolt) of their 4 x 100 relay gold when Carter failed a re-test of his frozen sample.
• IOC Admit Votes May Have Been Bought By Lamine Diack During 2016 Olympic Bidding Process Chicago 2016 never had a chance.
• Delusional, Deceiving Or Just Dumb?Thomas Bach Blames Individuals For Current Credibility Issues And Claims IOC Organization Is Not At Fault Right, because allegations of bribery and corruption against IOC members is such a rare occurrence.
• The Guardian:“Chris Froome And Mo Farah Are United In Success And Disputed Legacy” Sean Ingle writes that while both face skepticism regarding doping, Farah is grilled way more often than four-time Tour de France winner Froome.
• Three Russian Cyclists Launch Lawsuit Against WADA And Richard McLaren After Being Banned From Rio 2016 They already failed in their appeals to CAS when they were initially barred from Rio.
• Reuters:IOC Lawyers In Touch With Brazil Over Rio Games Chief Arrest

Great North Run *Results

• Mo Farah Runs 60:06 To Win His Fourth Great North Run Title In A Row Farah finished 6 seconds ahead of Jake Robertson while Feyisa Lilesa and Zane Robertson were 3-4 and Dathan Ritzenhein 6th.
• Mary Keitany Claims A Dominant Third Great North Run Title Over Vivian Cheruiyot Keitany ran 65:59 to Cheruiyot’s 67:54.
  *MBGreat North Run – Official Thread
• Mo Farah To Run The 2018 Virgin Money London MarathonFarah ran his one marathon at London 2014, finishing 8th in 2:08:21.
• Video:Jake Robertson Proposes To His Girlfriend, Kenyan Magdalyne Masai After The Great North Run Masai finished 4th in the women’s race.
  *MB:Jake Robertson proposes to Magdalyne Masai at the end of GNR half
  *MB:Magdalyne Masai: will she compete for NZ in the World Champs & Olympics?

Check Out London’s New Office Building With A 150m Track On Top Of It

More Weekend Distance Results

• Kenya’s Chemtai Rionotukei Breaks CR To With 2:29:36 To Win Taiyuan Marathon In China Ethiopia’s Azmeraw Bekele won the men’s race in 2:12:49.
• Kenya’s Hillary Kiptum Maiyo Defends His Minsk Half Marathon Title With 63:19 As Lyudmyla Liakhovich (73:53) Took The Women’s Race
• Georgia Women Win Bulldog SEC XC Preview

Sprinter News

• Yoshihide Kiryu Becomes The First Japanese Man To Break 10 Seconds In The 100m Kiryu ran 9.98 at an intercollegiate meet in Japan.
• Good Read:Ato Boldon Shares Some Career Advice That Helped Him Become A 4-Time Olympic Medalist “I have always had an ability to see the end before I even start. … If you see the end, then the steps that it takes to get to your goal don’t seem as hard, as rigorous, or as time consuming.”
• Devon Allen Has Some Big Track Goals Including Breaking The 110H Decathlon WR And Becoming The First To Run Sub-13 In The Hurdles And Sub-20 In The 200 Oh, and if you didn’t catch Allen’s World’s pre-race starting line magic trick, there’s a GIF of that.
• Usain Bolt Talking More Seriously About Trying To Play Soccer “We have a lot of offers from different teams but I have to get over my injury first and then take it from there.”
• Usain Bolt Does Interview With Olympic Swimming Legend Ian Thorpe; Says He Could Beat Him In A Swim Race Bolt: “You can probably do freestyle, back stroke, breaststroke, whatever, but I can run on water, easy.”

Field Event Corner

• Trey Hardee Says The Greatest Challenge Of His Career Was Bouncing Back From A Serious Elbow Injury To Take Silver At The 2012 Olympics Hardee calculated that he did 90,000 rehab repetitions for the first three months after surgery.
• IAAF Recap:World Shot Put Champ Gong Lijiao Wins Her Third Consecutive Gold At Chinese National Games
• Armand Duplantis’ 5.80m World U20 Pole Vault Record Ratified By The IAAF

Marathon Updates

• Dathan Ritzenhein Expects Mo Farah To Excel At The Marathon Now That He’s Made The Roads His Full Focus “I think there’s a lot of room for improvement there and he might not be as dominant as he was on the track right away but I don’t see any reason why he couldn’t be one of the best in the world at the marathon, too.”
• Catching Up With Eliud Kipchoge As He Prepares For A World Marathon Attempt Against Wilson Kipsang And Kenenisa Bekele At The Berlin Marathon Kipchoge says he took a month off after the sub-2 hour attempt, got so many drug tests the last year he lost count and plans on continuing his career at least until the 2020 Games.
• Ryan Vail Says He’s Working Out As Well As He Ever Has And He’ll Be Disappointed If He Doesn’t Break His 2:10:57 PR At The Berlin Marathon
• Two-Time World Marathon Champ Abel Kirui Looks Back At HIs First World Title At Berlin 2009 Kirui says when he crossed the line he “went into a little dance.” “I didn’t even dance to music. The music was in my mind.”