October 6, 2017 | LetsRun.com

Until 2017 BofA Chicago Marathon

Get the inside scoop from Friday’s press conference LRC Chicago Marathon Preview Podcast Jordan Hasay and Galen Rupp both reveal their buildups went really well, Dennis Kimetto talks about breaking the course record and more.

LRC 2017 Chicago Marathon Women’s Preview: Jordan Hasay Faces a Big Challenge Against 2:17 Woman Tirunesh Dibaba & 2-Time Defending Champ Florence Kiplagat Two-time defending champ Florence Kiplagat is back in Chicago but she’s an underdog as Tirunesh Dibaba, arguably the greatest women’s distance runner in history, is racing. If they falter, American Jordan Hasay could win but having looked at the stats we’re worried she may never run faster than her debut in Boston.
*MB: Will Jordan Hasay ever run faster than her 2:23:00 debut in Boston? Yes or no.

LRC The WR Holder, The Olympic Silver Medalist, & The Defending Champ: Here Are the Guys Galen Rupp Must Defeat to Win Chicago The fix most certainly doesn’t appear to be in in Chicago. If Galen Rupp wins his first major on Sunday, he’ll almost most certainly have had to earn it.

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 none faster than 2:09:58. How fast can he go?
Discuss: Is Galen Rupp a 2:05 Guy? Wejo, Rojo and You Debate

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 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.

Galen Rupp Addresses Drug Allegations, Talks At Length About About Salazar And Clean Sport “I feel like people have stopped believing in their fellow man, fellow woman, and it’s sad. Part of the cool thing about sports is seeing someone do something incredible and wanting to do that someday. Call me naive, but that’s the power of sports.”
Jordan Hasay: “I’d say on paper, I’m definitely fitter than Boston.” Hasay says she actually did some workouts with Rupp, tempoing the beginning of his long run or doing 400s during his mile repeats.
Q&A With Abel Kirui On His Humble Beginnings As The Son Of A Poor, Single-Mother Farmer Kirui says that some days they ate dinner “only by the mercies of God.”
Galen Rupp And Jordan Hasay Look To End The Longest US Victory Drought In Chicago Marathon History The last American winner was Deena Kastor in 2005. Rupp says he’d “love for it to be a 2:05 or 2:06 race.”
RRW: Sixteen Years Ago This Week, Catherine Ndereba Was First Woman to Run Sub-2:19 A nice look back at Ndereba’s 2001 run which was paced by LRC co-founder Robert Johnson.
Video: Course Tips From Three Chicago Marathon Legends Running Chicago? Get some free advice from Paula Radcliffe, Khalid Khannouchi and Catherine Ndereba who all set WRs here.
Short Audio Clip: Jordan Hasay Talks About The Marathon Hasay said whenever she was frustrated with her track performances, her parents would say, “Well, one day the marathon … just keep going until that.”

Random But Interesting

Should You Race As Wonder Woman? Top Halloween Costumes For 2017 … And How To Run In Them Camille Herron (marathon WR holder dressed as Spiderman) and Michael Wardian (Elvis costume WR) share their advice.
Running For Office … Literally: Ithaca Congressional Candidate To Kick Off Campaign With 450 Mile Run Over 30-Days Former DIII All-American at Ithaca, Ian Golden, is running across his NY district to “better understand the voters and the issues they view most important.”
Can Your Bib Number Affect Your Performance? Apparently in the triathlon, it can have some indirect consequences.
Athletics Illustrated: Effects On Sport Performance, Weight Loss And Health Of A Ketogenic Lifestyle The high-fat, low-carb, controversial diet is supported by Lore of Running author Dr. Tim Noakes.

Doping / Corruption News

WADA Removes Alcohol From 2018 List Of Prohibited Substances We’re sure that Ivan Ukhov will be thrilled. (PS: We’re kidding … alcohol will probably still be banned in competition; they’ll just use breathalysers.
“Icarus” Film Director Says The IOC Is In Doping Denial Bryan Fogel says that WADA is “crippled by its mandate with no ability to take action” and that the IOC “would like nothing more than to sweep this under the carpet.”
Not Suspicious At All: 16 Gold Bars Deposited In Arrested Rio 2016 Olympic Chief Carlos Nuzman’s Swiss Safe
*InsideTheGames article $155,000 cash was found at his residence in five different currencies. Gold bars, huge amounts of cash in different currencies.
Slovakia Finds Olympic Race Walk Champ Matej Tóth Not Guilty Of Doping Slovakia accepted his excuses for variations in his biological passport, but the decision is not final as the IAAF and WADA have to agree.
Athletics Kenya Sets November 2nd As “Doping Awareness Day” AK official Jack Tuwei said, “The problem is not the athletes, the problem is the athletes’ support personnel.” We would disagree and say the problem is both.
Russian Weightlifting Coach Complains Decicion To Ban Them (Along Kazakhstan, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Ukraine, China And Moldova) With For A Year For Doping “Utterly Unjust” We agree. Four years to life would be better.
Tokyo 2020 Sign Agreement With Japan Anti-Doping Agency For Drug Testing At Olympics Fun fact: The last Olympics where there was no drug testing was the Tokyo 1964 Games.

Notable Distance News

Cam Levins Making His Half Marathon Debut At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon On October 22nd Levins says he’s going to run with the marathon pace group at 63 minutes. He also talks about how he’s back to doing high mileage with his former college coach Eric Houle, has done a lot of training with Ryan Vail, and comments briefly on the coaching at NOP.
Former European Indoor 800 Champ Jenny Meadows Is Shocked That Since “Retiring” She Can Make More Money As A Rabbit Than She Could Competing Meadows also said it’s “damn hard” to stay in good enough shape to pace races which may deter her from doing it again for the 2018 season.
Video: Jakob Ingebrigtsen Needs To Be Helped To The Finish Line After Collapsing In Norway Mountain Race The sub-4 teenager finished 30th in what reportedly is “the world’s steepest race.”
NY Post: Pro Marathoner Runner’s Penis Exposed During Final Sprint To The Finish Slovakian Jozef Urban seemed unaware of his exposed parts as he finished the Kosice Peach Marathon in 10th place (2:21). *Viral Video (NSFW)
*MB: Runner’s Ding Dong Is Exposed During Marathon
IAAF: Teen Prodigy Ajee Wilson Comes Of Age With World Bronze Medal Wilson’s coach Derek Thompson had a ton of praise for his star athlete and says how easy going and easy to coach Wilson is.

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.

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

LetsRun Investigation Pays Off – US 10 Mile Champs Gave Women Only 6:10 – Not 6:18 – Head Start

MB: LetsRun does it again!! US 10 Miler admits mistake we uncovered – Gives Sara Hall $10,000 Sara Hall is pleased and thanks LetsRun.com for our “detective work.”

Sprint Stuff

The Charlotte Observer: From Olympic Sprinter To … NASCAR? How Outsider Ato Boldon Is Diversifying Racing They brought him in hoping to attract more minority viewers and Boldon says to his surprise he’s really enjoying the sport.
Wayde Van Niekerk Will Skip The 400 At The 2018 Commonwealth Games To Focus On The 100/200
From Last Weekend: Justin Gatlin Wins The Mano E Mano 100m Street Race In Rio With A Modest 10.52 *Video
IAAF Profile On Shock World 400m Gold Medalist Phyllis Francis Francis says she didn’t know what place she finished until she looked to the stands and saw her friends screaming. “I knew the medal was gold because they were jumping up and down and I thought, ‘Oh, this must be really serious right now!'”
In Depth Analysis Of The Men’s World 100m Final A team of 40 scientists used 25 high speed cameras and 15 HD camcorders were used to analyze every aspect of the race. Here are some preliminary findings.
Wayde Van Niekerk Documentary To Be Released February Next Year
Former Olympic Decathlon Champ Bryan Clay And Former 100m WR Holder Leroy Burrell Among USATF Hall Of Fame Class Of 2017

From The UK

Seb Coe Suggests Radical Overhaul Of The Sport With Possible Ideas Like Indian Premier League-Style Auctions, City Franchises, Drafts, And Pop-Up 200m Tracks “I’m not ruling, frankly, anything out now. … These are the things that are on the table and I, frankly, don’t want to remove them until we’ve had, really, at times, possibly uncomfortable set of conversations.” *The Guardian article
GB Long Jumper Greg Rutherford Has Sights Set On Further Success Before Retirement Rutherford wants to become the first to win three straight European LJ titles and would like to go for a third Olympic medal at Tokyo 2020.
GB’s Former 400m Olympic Champ Christine Ohuruogu Stays Silent On Retirement Claims Ohuruogu didn’t seem upset not to run on the 4×400 at Worlds and has just started a two-year law degree program.
Birmingham The Only Bidder For 2022 Commonwealth Games
*Birmingham 2022 CWG Bid Won’t Stop London’s Plans To Hold The European Championships In the Same Year
IAAF: Preparations “On Track For An Amazing” IAAF World Indoor Championships At Birmingham 2018 The IAAF made a visit to inspect Birmingham last week.
*IAAF: 1st Official 2018 World Indoors Bulletin Now Available The info guide has info on schedule, tickets, entry standards, the venue and more.
UK Sport unveils ambitious plans to bring more major sporting events to Great Britain London 2012, London 2017, Birmingham 2018, Birmingham 2022 … seems to be working.

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 LRC Kenenisa 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 Year Mo 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

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.

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.

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 against her wishes instead of the championship.
DyeStat: Sisters Olivia And Jaden Theis Pushing Each Other At Lansing Catholic High School In Michigan

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.

Previous Chicago News / Discussion

Abel Kirui Moved His Training Base This Year Just To Learn From Eliud Kipchoge Kirui says he “used to go home [to my wife and family] in the middle of the week” but now he stays at camp with Kipchoge until Saturday.
Abel Kirui Says He’s Learned From And Motivated By Eliud Kipchoge’s Berlin Win “When the Ethiopian [in Berlin] tried to do something strange, Kipchoge became patient and I think I will also do that if something of the sort happens in Chicago.”
Competitor: Could This Be A Year That An American Wins Chicago?
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

Olympic News / Corruption Updates

Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Nuzman Arrested In Rio Bribery Investigation Nuzman was caught amending his taxes to add $600,000 in income and investigators found a key for a safe in Switzerland containing gold (his net worth had increased 457% since he became the BOA president).
*NY Times: French Bank Linked To Olympic Bribery Scandal
*InsideTheGames: Rio 2016 bid chiefs met with businessman at heart of vote-buying scandal three weeks before IOC vote
Paris Mayor Eyes Most Successful Gay Games In 2018 If you’re curious (we were), there are no qualifying standards to compete at the Gay Games and anyone (regardless of sexual orientation) can enter.
IOC Targeting Tokyo 2020 Athletes’ Village As Potential Cost Cutting Measure Maybe Tokyo has some wiggle room, but it didn’t sound like Rio could have cut another dime on their athlete village.
USA Today: Some Olympic Hopefuls Seek Balance In Speaking Out, Representing Country Olympic rules prohibit political statements so you probably won’t see anyone at the Winter Olympics kneeling on top of the podium.
The Telegraph: “New Book Reveals Olympic Park Damaged East London’s Craft Industry” An expert has estimated that 887 jobs were lost and 31 per cent of the businesses that had to move were forced to close.
Tokyo 2020 Finds High Bacteria Levels At Open-Water Swim Venue Tests showed E. Coli up to 20 times the accepted limit.

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.