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Quote Of The Day

“It really just turned into a job that I wasn’t enjoying anymore. My entire career, I loved competing and I eventually learned to love training and that definitely wasn’t the case for the tail end of 2015 and early 2016. … I was in such a dark place, mentally, and so frustrated with running that I was ready to do anything I needed to to move on and be done with my running career … Basically, I had gotten 95 to 99 percent out of what I had to offer in track, but the marathon … me and my wife just knew, there was so much untapped potential left … I’ve been so fortunate to be a runner this long and I don’t want to, years from now, look back and wonder, What if? on any section of my career. I’m kind of at peace with how my track career went but I’m not at peace with my marathon career.”

– 2:12 marathoner Aaron Braun talking about how he almost retired after dealing with years of injuries, but didn’t want to leave any “what if’s” on the table. Braun is racing the Chicago Marathon on Sunday; his first marathon in two-and-a-half years.

Week That Was

LRCWTW: Phoebe Wright Gets Married, Suddenly Becoming World Class At 31, And Something Doesn't Add Up At US 10-Mile Champs?

Thanks to Phoebe Wright we've got a new activity for runners at their weddings, plus a look at the NCAA XC picture, and a possible mix-up at the 10 miler dominated by Scott Simmons WCAP athletes.

LetsThrow.com

US’s North American Hammer Throw Record Holder Gwen Berry Says The Greatest Challenge Of Her Career Was Overcoming Her Anxiety To Make Her First US Team In 2016 Berry was projected to make the Worlds team in 2013, but anxiety-fueled asthma caused her to black out while throwing in the ring. She failed to make the top 3 in 2014 and 2015 as well, but finally got her “mind more together” in to make Rio 2016.
World Shot Put Bronze Medalist Stipe Zunic Talks About How He Copes With His Dislike Of Travel As A Pro Athlete Jet lag, being a big guy in a cramped space and having had to make an emergency landing in a charter plane when the cockpit glass started to crack are a few reasons Zunic hates to fly.
Free Javelin Coaching Advice From UK Record Holder Goldie Sayers Sayers gives a very thorough rundown of javelin technique basics. *Part 2

US Distance Stuff

Pretty Cool:One Photo Captures Three Neck-And-Neck Races At The USATF 10-Mile Champs The men’s race, women’s race, and the “equalizer bonus” all came down to a sprint finish between Leonard Korir, Shadrack Kipchirchir, Sara Hall and Notosha Rogers. ~~Korir~~ Kipchirchir ended up winning the men’s race as well as the $10,000 bonus for beating Hall by 1.2 seconds.
RunBlogRun:What Do Elite Distance Runners Do In The Off Season?Cathal Dennehy talks to Emma Coburn, Colleen Quigley, Brenda Martinez, Jenny Simpson, Nick Willis and Chris O’Hare about their off-season activities.
Kevin Castille Breaks The Men’s 45-49 World 5K Best With 14:29 Win At The USATF Masters 5K Champs In Syracuse The previous best was 14:31 by Kenya’s Wilson Waigwa back in 1994. Sascha Scott won the women’s race in 17:50.
Emma Coburn Is Now A Race Director As The Elk Run 5K In Her Hometown Of Crested Butte, CO Is In The Books 500 runners participated, including Olympians Paul Chelimo, Courtney Frerichs and Aisha Leer.
Flotrack Video Profile: Futsum Zienasellassie – Take Nothing For Granted
Leo Manzano Speaks To Kids At McFarland High School

US Weekend Results: USATF 10 Miler *Results

Shadrack Kipchirchir (47:33) Beats Out Leonard Korir By Less Than A Second To Win USATF 10 Mile Champs; Sara Hall Takes Women’s Title In 53:43 Hall beat out Natosha Rogers by 2 seconds while Aliphine Tuliamuk was 3rd.
Kirubel Erassa (4:06) And Eglay Nalyanya (4:45) Win The Navy Mile In Washington DC This was the final stop on the Bring Back The Mile road series with Ben Blankenship and Emily Lipari the overall series winners.
Joseph Gray And Ashley Brasovan Win USATF Trail Half Marathon Championships *Results
*MB: USATF trail half marathon national championship course was 0.7 miles short

Justin Gatlin Won’t Take A Knee

Justin Gatlin Says He’ll Stand For National Anthem If He Wins An Exhibition In Brazil This Week Racism exists but Gatlin’s dad was in the Army for 26 years.

Interesting News From Japan

Japan’s Yuta Shitara Wants To Run Another Marathon Real Soon – Maybe Before The End Of The Year (Fukuoka?) We think that’s foolish and think Tokyo would make more sense but his twin brother (with PRs of 13:40/27:52/61:12) is doing Fukuoka. “I’m the kind of guy who likes to race a lot. I get kind of lazy if there’s too much space on my calendar.”
Japan’s 100th Ekiden Season Will Begin On October 9th – It Looks Like Tokai University Is Set To Dominate Tokai is coached by Hayashi Morozumi, Suguro Osako‘s HS coach, who focuses on XC type training.

And Elsewhere:

Meet Greg Duplantis: Pole Vault Coach, Former US Olympian And Father To Mondo He says 5.90m surprised him in 2017 and that they’ll be more “selective” in their competitions in 2018.
Man Who Runs Marathons With Palestinian Flag Is Denied A Tourist Visa For Chicago Marathon And he’d already purchased his tickets.
Which DL Meets Had The Most (Zurich) And Least (Stockholm) WC Medalists?

$$$ News

Recommended Read:Outside:Is It Worth It For Shoe Companies To Sponsor Runners? Brooks brand manager Steve DeKoker: “You need people to authenticate your brand. By that, I mean you need the best people in the world validating that your product is legitimate and that your products can perform at the highest level.”
Usain Bolt Is One Of The Highest-Paid Celebrities Of The Year He’s 88th on the Forbes list, ahead of some actors/singers like Kevin Hart, Britney Spears and Katy Perry. Remember, Bolt was 23rd on the list of highest-paid athletes.

Sport Politics

Good Read:NY Times:NFL Protests Draw Attention And Comparisons To 1968 Olympic Black Power Salute The article actually focuses not on Tommie Smith or John Carlos, but white Australian Peter Norman, who was ostracized for years for standing with the two Americans during their protest. When Norman died in 2006, Smith and Carlos flew to Melbourne to be his pallbearers.
Reuters:US House Republican Speaker Paul Ryan Opposes Protests During National Anthem “People are clearly within their rights to express themselves how they see fit. My own view though is that we shouldn’t do it on the anthem.”

Upcoming Marathon Action

Good Read:Competitor: Meb Keflezighi Prepares For His Final Race At The NYC Marathon “Honestly, it can’t come fast enough. People know it’s my last one. I want it to be over. They don’t. It’s been a lot of pressure over the last 27 years – a lot of weight on the shoulders internally and externally.”

Dennis Kimetto Still Wants To Lower His 2:02:57 World Record Kimetto says he knew they weren’t going to get his mark in Berlin when he saw the muggy conditions.
*MB:What do Kenyans think about Rupp? The article mentions Kimetto’s competition in Chicago being Stephen Sambu and Zersenay Tadese, but no mention of Galen Rupp.
October 15:Ethiopia’s Tesfaye Abera (2:04:24 PR) Leads Amsterdam Marathon Elite Field He’ll face 2:05:54 man Amos Kipruto (2:05:54) as well as Zane Robertson and Edwin Kiptoo (59:26 half PR) in their debuts.
*MB:ZANE ROBERTSON to debut at AMSTERDAM MARATHON
Edna Kiplagat Has Her Eyes On The NYC Marathon Title Kiplagat will have her work cut out for her going up against Mary Keitany, who will be chasing a 4th title.
Prize Money Significantly Increased For March 2018 Armory NYC Indoor Marathon At The Armory $3,000 to the winner with an extra $4,000 for a WR (2:21:48 for the men, 2:42:30 for women).
Study Finds Bank Of America Chicago Marathon Brings More Than $282 Million To Chicago Economy

NCAA / HS News

Good Read:DyeStat Profile On The Progression Of Returning NCAA XC Champ Karissa Schweizer Last year Schweizer become just the 4th athlete to complete the NCAA triple crown (XC, indoor and outdoor 5K titles) and has bumped her mileage up to 80 miles a week looking to do it again.
Notre Dame’s Anna Rohrer To Miss 2017 XC Season With Hamstring Injury Rohrer had a procedure to “stimulate the repair of her hamstring” and that will keep her out for a couple weeks, but she’ll be back for track.
*MB:Anna Rohrer redshirt
19-Year-Old India National HJ Record Holder (2.26m) Gets Scholarship At Kansas State Apparently he’s only the third athlete from India to compete in the NCAA.
MB:Stanford only racing 3 times before regionals?
MB:2017 Paul Short XC Run Entries
DyeStat:HS Sophomore Brynn Siles Enjoying A Breakthrough Season In Colorado Last year Siles could have had a chance to make NXN as a freshman, but was accidentally put in (and won) the open race instead of the championship.
DyeStat:Sisters Olivia And Jaden Theis Pushing Each Other At Lansing Catholic High School In Michigan

Until 2017 BofA Chicago Marathon

LRC The 2017 Chicago Marathon Men’s Race Is LOADED With American Talent Besides Galen Rupp – Find Out Who Here Diego Estrada, Luke Puskedra, Noah Droddy, Chris Derrick, Sam Chelanga and others are all racing. We talk to nearly all of them.

LRC Is Galen Rupp a 2:05 Guy? LetsRun Debates: How fast can Galen Rupp run for 26.2 at Sunday’s Chicago Marathon? Galen Rupp has run three career marathons – all have been great but non faster than 2:09:58. How fast can he go?
Discuss: Is Galen Rupp a 2:05 Guy? Wejo, Rojo and You Debate

LRC Aaron Braun And The Question All Runners Eventually Face – “Should I Hang ‘Em Up?” In the summer of 2016, Aaron Braun was on the brink of retirement. Now he’s back, doing what all runners do: chasing the dream.

HOKA NAZ Elite Documentary (Part 1) A nice in-depth inside look at the training of the Flagstaff group which includes Aaron Braun, Kellyn Taylor, Matt Llano and Ben and Stephanie Bruce.
Abel Kirui Aiming To Win Again In Chicago Kirui says he’s been doing the same program as Kipchoge before he won in Berlin.
Joan Benoit Samuelson Out of Chicago with Injury

Pre-Race MB Buzz

LetsJump.com

Sandi Morris Was On Lockdown For 5 Hours During Las Vegas Shooting Morris was at a performance by the Blue Man Group across the street from the shooting and said, “This is probably one of the scariest things I’ve ever experienced in my life, if not the scariest.”
Olympic, World And European Pole Vault Champ Katerina Stefanidi Says She’s Focused On World Indoor Gold In 2018 It won’t be an off year for Stefanidi as she says, “It’s crazy to say but it is the only gold medal I don’t have now so it is a big goal.”
Rundown Of The Ten 2017 IAAF World Athlete Of The Year Men’s Nominees Apparently it was the year for jumpers as Sam Kendricks (PV), Mutaz Essa Barshim (HJ) and Luvo Manyonga (LJ) were all undefeated on the year.
Rundown Of The Ten 2017 IAAF World Athlete Of The Year Women’s Nominees Adding to the list of undefeated jumpers was Russian HJer Maria Lasitskene. Hammer thrower Anita Wlodarczyk was also undefeated for the 3rd straight year.

Kenenisa Bekele Responds To Jos Hermens

Kenenisa Bekele at 2017 BMW Berlin Marathon LRCKenenisa Bekele “Dismayed” By Jos Hermens’ Comments About His Professionalism After Berlin Marathon, Vows To Break World Record Bekele is confident that the best is yet to come for him at the 26.2-mile distance. “I definitely will break it before my retirement. For all the skeptics, I will show them with my hard work,” Bekele said, waving his hands with confidence. “I want to seize my future. And I don’t want anyone to get into my way of proving myself.”

Previous: LRC Jos Hermens: Kenenisa Bekele Must Become More “Professional” If He Is To Realize Marathon Potential

Who Was The Best In 2017?

IAAF Announces Nominees For 2017 World Athlete Of The YearMo Farah, Elijah Manangoi, Almaz Ayana, Hellen Obiri and Caster Semenya are the distance athletes to make the 20-person short list.
Usain Bolt Is A Six Time AOY Winner, But Failed To Make The Short List In His Swan Song Year
Neutral Russian World HJ Champ Maria Lasitskene Makes IAAF Short List Lasitskene was undefeated for the year over 24 competitions.
BBC: Justin Gatlin Left Off Athlete Of The Year Short List They say it is the first time since 2004 that the world or Olympic 100m champion hasn’t made the short list, but Tori Bowie is the women’s world 100 champ and not on the short list. Why didn’t she get an article?
World 110 Hurdles Champ Omar McLeod Is The Only Jamaican On The AOY Short List

International Road Action

Edith Chelimo Breaks UK All-Comers Record (#6 All-Time) With 65:50 Win At The Cardiff University Half Marathon John Lotiang beat defending champ Shadrack Kimining by 4 seconds to win the men’s race in a 60:43 CR. GB’s Dewi Griffiths was 4th in a PR of 61:31.
World 5,000m Champion Muktar Edris Wins the Giro al Sas International 10k In Italy Edris beat out fellow Ethiopian Telahun Haile by just one second in 28:54.
Christopher Thompson Beats Out Callum Hawkins By 34 Seconds To Win Great Scottish Run Half In 62:44 Flomena Cheyech Daniel won the women’s race in 70:17.
Reuben Kerio (2:08:12) And Sheila Jerotich (2:27:34) Win Kosice Peace Marathon

Weekend Pro Results

Muktar Edris Wins Giro Al Sas Race In Italy Article is translated from Italian.
2:12:31 And 2:30:47 Win Hengshui Lake International Marathon In China

Action That You Might Be Able To Watch Live This Weekend

Young British Stars Callum Hawkins And Andy Butchart To Clash At Sunday’s Great Scottish Run The 13.1 distance is a huge advantage for Hawkins. *Watch It On TV/Online
Meet The Two Women Who Are Currently Trying To Break The Record For Fastest Run Across The USA – Is Anyone Watching Them?

Next Month 46-Year-Old Catherine Watkins Will Go For Canada’s 45+ Marathon Record Of 2:40:20 In Toronto In 3 Weeks

Interesting Non-Elite Running News

Recommended Read:The Seven Pillars Of Running Wisdom Hutchinson summarizes “seven key messages” around running science and training that can help you become a better runner.
*MB:Alex Hutchinson is leaving Runner’s World, last column released today
2018 Boston Entrants Had To Be 3 Minutes And 23 Seconds Faster Than Their Age-Group Standard To Get In This is a lot faster than the 2:09 under you needed in 2017.
*Runner’s World: Boston Marathon Hopefuls Celebrate, Bemoan Their Fortune on Social Media
*MB:BQ – 3:23 gets accepted for 2018
Woman Rolls Her Way To A BQ Time After Collapsing After a fall at 18 miles, the woman’s legs finally gave out near the finish, so she rolled her way in to 3:34:02. (Includes video.)
*Good Morning America Clip
Florida “Mermaid Race” Bashed With Complaints After A Late Start, Inaccurate Course, Inadequate Water In 90 Degree Heat, And Non-Safe Highway Crossings Apparently the race director never even obtained a permit to hold the event.

Anti-Doping Updates

Moscow Court Issues International Arrest Warrant For Russian Doping Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov The criminal case against Rodchenkov was for “abuse of office” as Russian authorities have blamed him for the doping scandals and accused him of lying about the state ran operation at Sochi 2014. *InsideTheGames article
Paris 2024 President Claims Paris Anti-Doping Lab Will Be Back In Operation Within Six Months After WADA Suspended Them Yesterday Apparently the lab, famous for developing the technology to detect EPO, was suspended because they had two tests which were false positives.
Athletics Kenya Introduces “Anti-Doping Day” On November 2nd To Teach Athletes About The “Dangers Of Doping”
WADA President Craig Reedie Suggests Revamped System To Sanction Non-Compliant Governments

Fall Marathon Review

Interesting:Q&A With BMW Head Of Sports Marketing Strategy, Who Explains Why Marathon Sponsorship Beats Soccer First reason: One out of four BMW customers is an active runner.
Former WR Holder Patrick Makau Argues That Having Three All-Time Greats At Berlin Was Actually Counterproductive For The WR Makau felt that having all three in the race put too much pressure on them individually.
Eliud Kipchoge Doing A Post-Berlin Nike Promotional Tour In Asia Also, in celebration of his Berlin win, 100 pairs of Kipchoge’s Nike Air Zoom Vaporfly Elite shoes were made available in Germany.
Two-Time Boston Champ Moses Tanui Wants The IAAF To Investigate The Warsaw Marathon After Recho Kosgei Collapsing Episode*Kosgei Video

NCAA Updates

Updated Men’s National Coaching Poll: NAU Stays #1, BYU Moves To #2 Syracuse remains ranked 3rd while Stanford moved from 2nd to 4th.
Women’s Week 4 National XC Rankings: No Changes To The Top 9 Colorado, Oregon and New Mexico remain 1-3.
Southern Utah Men Reach Historic High With #6 National Rank Winning the Notre Dame Invy bumped them up 7 places from 13th.
Ashton Eaton And Brianne Theisen-Eaton Inducted Into Oregon Sports Hall Of Fame
Two-Time Olympic 400H Champ Angelo Taylor To Be In Georgia Sports Hall Of Fame

International News

Isaac Makwala Talks About London 400m Virus Controversy Makwala says he did not mean to suggest the race was a conspiracy when he suggested the IAAF favored Wayde Van Niekerk.
Usain Bolt Races Young Woman In Parking Lot At Oktoberfest
British Javelin Champion Joanna Blair Suspended After Failing Anti-Doping Test
*Blair Blames Failed Test On Creatine Supplement
Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Q&A With Paula Radcliffe(link fixed)Radcliffe talks about a slew of topics, including injuries, doping, the Chicago Marathon and her partnership with her husband.

NCAA News

Howard University XC Racing To New Heights Under New Coach David Oliver A senior on the team said Oliver “has studied the cross-country side of track and field” and has cracked down on team tardiness.
Former NCAA Champ Sam Chelanga Inducted Into Liberty Hall Of Fame
NCAA Athletes Of The Week Are Utah State’s Dillon Maggard And New Mexico’s Ednah Kurgat Maggard led Utah State to the team title with first place at Paul Short while Kurgat won Notre Dame Invy.
Updated Men’s NCAA DI Regional Rankings
Updated Women’s NCAA DI Regional Rankings

NCAA XC *All Weekend Collegiate Results

Notre Dame: Women #1 Colorado Edges #4 New Mexico At 2017 Joe Piane Invitational Weini Kelati was 6th in her first big NCAA race as UNM went 1-2-6-8-34 and Colorado went 3-7-8-10-18.
*Brie Oakley Was 12th In Her Collegiate Debut In The Race
*Anna Rohrer Redshirt
Men: #13 Southern Utah Takes Down #4 Colorado At 2017 Joe Piane Invitational The Alabama men went 1-2-3 individually.

Louisville:#1 NAU Men Crush It By Going 1-2-3-4 #12 Furman was 2nd while #7 Wisconsin was just 8th
*Allie Ostrander and Boise State Women Win

Dellinger: Men #6 BYU DOMINATES Oregon’s Dellinger Invite With 17 Points The Cougars placed 7 in the top 10. Oregon held out 1 guy while Stanford held out a ton.
Women: Katie Rainsberger And Oregon Cruise
*How Flat Is The Course At The Bill Dellinger Invitational?

Cowboy Jamboree: Ok. State Men And Ole Miss Women Win Dave Smith said the men are ahead of where he thought they’d be. In the women’s race, Karissa Schweizer won by nearly 30 seconds.

Chile Pepper: Arkansas Men And Women Win The men’s race was 10k once again. D2 power Colorado School of Mines was 2nd in men’s race.

Paul Short: Utah State Rocks It
#24 Utah State Women, Who Came In Ranked #24, Get Upset Win Over #15 Nova And Others
*Unranked Utah State Wins Men’s Race In An Upset Over Georgetown. D2 #1 Adams State was third without star Sydney Gidabuday. Had he been up front, they might have won it.

News Relating To Kenya

Great Headline: Kipchoge Is So Good He “Defies The Glorious Uncertainty Of The Marathon”
It’s Official: Paul Tergat Is The President Of Kenya’s Olympic Committee Not a surprise as he was unopposed. *AFP
Paul Tergat Faces Tough Task In Restoring Image Of Kenyan Olympic Committee As He Starts Day 1 Of His Reign “We must convince our youth to look at sports as a livelihood. “
Kip Keino Had Led Kenya’s Olympic Committee Since 1999
Good Read Illinois Doc Who Worked On Breaking2 For Nike Raves About Kipchoge’s Spartan Existence “You realize why people in the western world have so much difficulty competing with these guys. These guys don’t have any Facebook or Twitter. They run in the morning, eat, sleep, run more.”
Catching Up With Benjamin Limo, Who Won Kenya’s Only Gold At 2005 Worlds On Last Day In Helsinki Retired, he’s a fixture at athletics meets when he’s not working on his dairy farm.
Back With A Bang: Former World Half Silver Medalist/Rotterdam Champ Philes Ongori Returns From 2-Year Maternity Leave And Wins Half Marathon In Kenya Two years was much deserved as she had twins.
Kenya Cahnges Its 2017 Domestic Schedule As Commonwealth Games Are In April And the African champs are in August.

Learn All About Guye Adola – Marathon’s Newest Star

LRC Unbelievable: Guye Adola – Who Just Ran The Fastest Debut Marathon In History – Claims He Didn’t Know He Was Running Berlin Until 4 Days Before The Race Learn the back story of marathon’s newest star Guye Adola, who says he only found out he was running the Berlin Marathon last Wednesday.
*MB: Learn some of the backstory behind Guye Adola – marathon’s newest star
Update: Adola’s coach claims that Adola had known he was doing Berlin for 4 months but didn’t tell his friends until 4 days before the race.

Previous NCAA XC News

Allie Ostrander Making XC Comeback At Louisville Classic After Nearly Two Years Away Ostrander was runner-up at NCAAs her freshman year, but a sacral stress fracture kept her off the grass until now. Ostrander says she’s “had a good summer of training” and is “feeling great.”
Register-Guard: At Long Last, Oregon Opens Its XC Season The season opener is 3 weeks later than planned after the Oregon Preview was canceled due to poor air quality. Andy Powell also revealed that Kate Murphy will most likely redshirt due to injury.
*MB: Snowflakes get victory #2 of xc season: Thursday’s Oregon XC meet is cancelled due to air quality concerns
RIP Hall Of Fame Coach George Dales, 96 Dales coached Western Michigan University to two NCAA team XC titles when coaching there from 1953 to 1970.
Arkansas Women Primed For Top-10 Showdown At Notre Dame
No. 5 Arkansas Men Hosting Chile Pepper Festival On Saturday
Former NCAA Champions Melody Fairchild (3,000) And Tommy Skipper (Pole Vault) Among Latest Inductees To University Of Oregon’s Hall Of Fame

Upcoming Road Action

Sunday: Leonard Korir And Aliphine Tuliamuk Lead Fields For USATF 10 Mile Championships Hosted By The Medtronic TC 10 Mile Korir will face Shadrack Kipchirchir, Martin Hehir, Futsum Zienasellassie and Christo Landry while the women’s race also has Natosha Rogers, Sara Hall and Shalaya Kipp. *USATF Release
Sunday:Defending Champion David Kiyeng Faces Strong Opposition At The Kosice Peace Marathon In Slovakia Kiyeng got the surprise win last year in 2:08:58, but this year faces Gilbert Masai (2:09:49) and Richard Sigei (2:08:28). Janet Rono (2:26:03) and Sheila Jerotich (2:28:53) lead the women’s race.
Sunday: GB’s Dewi Griffiths Looking For Another PR At The Cardiff Half Marathon Griffiths ran 62:53 for 7th at the Great North Run and a 28:27 10K last week and will face defending champ Shadrack Kimining. Violah Jepchumba (66:06) is also back after winning the women’s race last year.
Saturday:Close Battle Expected At The Hengshui Lake Marathon In ChinaBernard Kiprotich Too (2:09:47) leads a field that includes six men in the 2:10 range while Peninah Arusei (2:27:17) and Tigist Memuye (2:27:39) are the top women.
October 29:Germany’s Arne Gabius Targeting A Fast Time At The Frankfurt Marathon Two years ago, Gabius ran a 2:08:33 NR at Frankfurt and this year is looking to go through halfway in 64:15.
October 22:Uganda’s Alex Chesakit Hoping To Upset The Kenyan And Ethiopian Favorites At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon Chesakit’s PR is 2:13:06, but is hoping to go sub-2:10 in Toronto so he can qualify for the Commonwealth Games after visa issues kept him out of London Worlds.