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Nike Civil War At 2018 USA XC

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Hasay is not running on women’s side

– Saturday should be amazing for distance fans and it all starts at the 2018 USA XC Champs. Update: Hasay has tweeted out she has opted for a hard week of training and isn’t running.

Super Saturday Is Here USA XC Results Millrose Results *All Weekend Results

MB: Official Super Saturday Track Discussion – IAAF Karlsruhe, Camel City and Millrose
*MB: What’s the flat track WR? King Ches just ran 3:53.85 at Camel City!

USA XC LRC Emily Infeld and Leonard Korir Prevail In Thrilling Duels To Win 2018 USATF Cross Country Championships Former NCAA xc champs Molly Seidel and Galen Rupp put up big fights in trying to win their first US xc titles but came up a little bit short. *Results
*MB: Official 2018 USA XC Live Discussion Thread

Camel City LRC Edward Cheserek Runs 3:53 on a Flat Track, Paul Chelimo Wins $10,000 and Rachel Schneider Wins Even More ($12,000) King Cheserek was sensational in one race and Schneider utterly dominant in two – just 35 minutes apart.

Paula R Offers Mo Some Advice

Paula Radcliffe says that Mo Farah is going to have to change his for if he’s going to be good at 26.2 “Like Kenenisa and Haile, he’s going to have to change the way he runs. He’s got that track runner’s long, loping stride and high kick-back. He’s not that efficient for a marathon runner.”

Outside Millrose Coverage

Recommended Read:A Decade After Winning The Millrose High School Miile, Kyle Merber Shooting For The Wanamaker Mile Title “It’s humbling when you look back at the history books and you see all these guys who’ve run just as fast, or faster, than I have, and I don’t even — I don’t know who they are. It’s an unforgiving sport.”
Good Read:Katelyn Tuohy Doesn’t Think She’s Ready To Run Her Fastest Mile In Millrose, But Wants To Go Under 4:40 On the subject of going pro, Tuohy says she plans on running in the NCAA.
Brenda Martinez Scratches From Wanamaker Mile At Millrose
Chris O’Hare “Ready To Roll” At Millrose O’Hare is looking forward to the Wanamaker Mile, but also seeing his wife and 16-month-old son as he’s been away from them in Flagstaff for the last month.
New Mexico’s Josh Kerr Relishing Wanamaker Mile Experience Kerr says training has gone great and he’s “never been this fit this early in the season.”
USA Today:World’s Best Hurdler Omar McLeod Will Try To Challenge The Top Sprinters At Millrose McLeod has spent this season focused on flat sprinting because as his coach says, “he doesn’t want to be known as a guy who just runs the hurdles.”
A Rundown Of The Top Collegians Competing At Millrose

Week That Was

LRC WTW: Boston Vs. London – Who Has The Edge? Is Nike’s 4% For Real? Is Mo Farah 2.0 Already Here? And Free Coaching Advice For Paul Ereng This week we wonder if we’ve already found Mo Farah‘s replacement, prove that life isn’t fair, compare the 2018 Boston and London Marathon fields, beg Paul Ereng to let Michael Saruni do the World Indoor/NCAA double, rave about the domination of the Nike 4%, introduce you to Ethiopia’s budding 1,500 star, and bemoan the fact that hardly any American women run the marathon before they are 25.

More Distance News

World And Olympic 1500 Champ Faith Kipyegon Is Pregnant And Will Miss The 2018 Track Season
MB:Eliud Kipchoge says he WON’T be going for the WR in London
February 18:Kenya’s Former Two-Time World Marathon Champ Abel Kirui Will Headline The Verona Half-Marathon He’s using the race as part of his buildup for the London Marathon.

Field Event News

Greg Rutherford Reveals That He Thought His Career Could Be Over Before Getting Surgery This Fall Rutherford had reconstruction surgery on his groin and an ankle operation and says now he’s jumping “remarkably far” in training. He was thinking of retiring, but now wants to go to 2020.
*Greg Rutherford: “I can still beat any long jumper in the world if I’m in shape.”
Drake Relays 2018 Announces Addition Of Elite Shot Put Competition More interesting than that, though, is that Olympic champ Ryan Crouser will go against high jumper Ricky Robertson in a dunk competition during halftime of a Drake basketball game.
February 25:Olympic Gold Medalists Ekaterini Stefanidi (PV), Tianna Bartoletta (LJ) And Greg Rutherford (LJ) Announced For Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix The ageless Kim Collins is in the 60m.
February 15: US’s Ryan Whiting, Poland’s Euro Indoor Champ Konrad Bukowiecki And Former Olympic Silver Medalist David Storl Will Clash At The Copernicus Cup Shot Put
Podcast Interview With NCAA Hammer Throw Record Holder And World Team Member Maggie Ewen
Olympic LJ Champ Ivana Španović And LJer Lazar Anic Named 2017 Serbian Athletes Of The Year Španović just missed a medal in London, but won the overall Diamond League title.

Other Random News

Vladimir Putin Calls Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov A “Nutjob” Putin also said that he “should be put in prison.”
The IAAF Ethics Committee Is In Kenya To Finish Investigations And Hearings Before Giving A Final Verdict On The Three Suspended Fromer AK Officials
AP: The Bev Kearney Vs. Texas Lawsuit Is Still Ongoing Kearney was fired for having relations with a student athlete and her lawyers are making it a point to compare how Texas didn’t fire a football coach who had relations with a student trainer.
SPIKES Indoor T&F 7 Question Pop Quiz Do you know who is the oldest male world indoor champ in history?
Chicago Marathon Race Director Carey Pinkowski To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Chicago Area Runners Association Pinkowski has been the Chicago RD for almost 30 years.

Mid-Distance News

Good Read:Donavan Brazier Looking Towards World Indoors After Putting A Disappointing London 2017 Behind Him Poor tactics cost Brazier a spot in the final and he says, “It’s sickening. What happened in London was disappointing, but when you get that feeling you never want to feel it again.”
Illinois Sophomore Jon Davis Runs 3:58.46 On A Flat Track He was the 498th American to break the 4-minute barrier.
*MB: Jon Davis runs 3:58 on flat track and gets no love
Robby Andrews Talks About His Experience Filming An Adidas Commercial In Iceland Watch the commercial here.
MB:Katelyn Tuohy loses in a HS race!!!!!!!!!!! She tripled at her county championships, winning the 1,000 and 1,500, but getting 2nd in the 600. *Post-Meet Video Interview With Tuohy
Erin Finn Feeling Joy After Breaking Her Own 3,000m School Record Last Week “I felt the joy of finally just completing something that I’ve been working towards. It’s been almost two years since I’ve PRed in any of my distance events.”
MB:Dalton Hengst – Penn Relays Mile Champ And 4:08 Miler – Transfers High Schools In The Middle Of The Last Semester Of His Senior Year Hengst transferred from McDonogh School in Maryland to Bishop Shanahan in Pennsylvania. He’s now part of a team that already has the second-fastest miler in the country this year.
British 1,500m Olympian Ross Murray Retires After Years Struggling With Injuries

The World’s Biggest XC Fan

LRC Meet Mr. Cross-Country, The Sport’s Biggest Fan Cross-country’s biggest fan, Michael Mahon, resides in Massachusetts, where for the past 33 years he has traveled to over 1,747 career meets, bag of cans in tow. And he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
*Michael Mahon – Mr. Cross-Country – Share Your Favorite Story Here

Millrose Pre-Meet News

LRC Millrose Press Conference: Nick Willis Not Letting Flu, New Baby, ‘Old’ Age Stop His Millrose Dream, Kate Grace Says Bowerman Transition Has Been Tough, Vashti Cunningham Says Go Eagles + Emma Coburn, Josh Kerr, Robby Andrews, Ben Blankenship, Colleen Quigley, Tori Bowie, Omar McLeod, Asafa Powell, Aries Merritt.
*RRW Kate Grace Is Ready For Her First Race As Nike Bowerman Track Club Athlete

LRC 2018 Millrose Preview: Willis Tries to End His Mile Drought, Korir vs. Brazier vs. Murphy in a Stacked 800, & Much, Much More An incredible Saturday for track and field fans will come to an end with a fantastic NYRR Millrose Games – the 111th edition.

Download/Stream Now Track Talk Podcast: We 1st Get You Ready For Millrose, USAXC, Camel City Then Look Back at Dec and January Before Sharing What We Are Most Looking Forward To in 2018 As A Whole Track geeks delight. 1hr and 42 minutes. 1hr and 7 minutes on Super Saturday and then 35 minutes on a look back at the end of 2017 and look ahead to the rest of 2018.

Other Action From This Weekend

World championship bronze medallist at 400 – Abdalelah Haroun – wins Asian Games 400 title Day 2 is in the books.

Edna Kiplagat, Zersenay Tadese, Yuta Shitara, Betsy Sain and Sara Hall are all running the 72nd Kagawa Marugame on Sunday Shitara, the Japanese record holder at 60:17, has been fire of late. More from JRR here.

Eugene 2021 Under Investigation

NY Times:Eugene’s 2021 World Championships Bid Under Investigation By The US Justice Department Prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas as they investigate possible racketeering, money laundering and fraud charges related to the 2019 and 2021 World Championship bids.
The Oregonian:TrackTown USA Stands By Bid For 2021 World Track Champs In Wake Of Federal Subpoenas TrackTown USA CEO Michael Reilly said: “Our role was to put the best bid forward. We are proud of our bid and stand by it.”
Register Guard article

Drug News: A Sad Day For The Fight Against Doping

CAS Fails Clean Athletes: 28 Out Of 39 Russians Have Their Sochi 2014 Disqualifications Overturned By CAS Who Said The Evidence Against Them Was “Insufficient” Not only that, but the 11 athletes whose bans were upheld were reduced to a 4-years rather than lifetime bans.
IOC Criticizes CAS Decision Saying, “This may have a serious impact on the future fight against doping.”
WADA Says CAS Decision Will “Cause Dismay And Frustration” USADA’s Travis Tygart bashed the IOC saying they failed to “swiftly and decisively deal with Russia” and tried to “slam dozens of cases through the process on the even of the Olympics.”
WADA back potential IOC appeal of CAS Russia decision to Swiss Federal Tribunal The IOC have reiterated that “not being sanctioned does not automatically confer the privilege of an invitation” to the Olympics on the neutral Russian team.
Russians Hail “Triumph Of Justice” As IOC Doping Bans Are Overturned The court’s ruling on the 28 athletes reinstates their results at the 2014 Olympics, returning Russia to the top of the Sochi medals chart.
New ARD 35-Minute Documentary On Russian Doping With Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov Who “Raises Serious Accusations Against President Vladimir Putin”
Vladimir Putin Calls Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov An “Imbecile With Obvious Problems”
US Triple Jumper Atlanta Westbrook Gets 4-Year Doping Ban For PED Use

US Non-Distance News

Lolo Jones Bashes NBA Player Blake Griffin Jones tweeted, “I went on a date with him. Worst date of my life and he’s a terrible kisser.”
Pole Vaulting Isn’t Sandi Morris’ Only Talent; She’s Also A Great Singer Morris recently sang the national anthem before the Pole Vault Summit and plays the guitar and violin.
At 31 Years Old, World LJ Champ Brittney Reese Says, “I still feel like I’ve got a lot more left in me to win some more medals.” Reese has four world golds and an Olympic gold and silver and thinks “2020 is probably going to be it” for her.
Sam Kendricks Reflects On His Perfect 2017 Season Which Culminated With A Celebration Photo With A Bunch Of Randoms After Winning The Zurich DL Kendricks: “This photo is very special to me. I don’t know any of the faces in the photo but the fact that they got to share in my success means that they are as much in the moment as I am.”

NCAA Updates

No Changes To The Top 3 Men’s NCAA Rankings Florida, Georgia and Texas A&M stay top 3 as Oregon moved up from 14th to 4th.
Updated Women’s NCAA Rankings: Arkansas Takes Over As #1 As Oregon Drops To 3rd
Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Marks From The Weekend
Karissa Schweizer And Michael Saruni Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week

Doping Updates

WADA Launch Investigation After New ARD Report That Doping Sample Bottles Can Be Manipulated Without Detection Apparently the bottles can be opened manually after being frozen.
*ARD Report (In German)
IOC Urge WADA To Ensure Anti-Doping At 2018 Winter Games Is “Credible And Reliable” After Sample Bottle Integrity Issue WADA is currently in contact with the bottle manufacturers after the latest ARD report.
Italian Athletics Federation Doctors Who Helped Racewalker Alex Schwazer Avoid Being Caught Using Drugs Get Two-Year Prison Sentences Another official also got a 9-month sentence.
IPC Will Allow Russian Athletes To Compete As Neutrals At The 2018 Winter Paralympics
Germany Criticize “Incomprehensible” IPC Decision To Allow Russians At Pyeongchang 2018
Banned Former Head Of 2018 FIFA World Cup Vitaly Mutko Is Apparently Has A Net Worth Over $1 Billion Mutko appeared on a US “oligarchs list.”
UK Anti-Doping Given $86 Million Public Money Increase To Help Catch Drugs Cheats Ahead Of 2020 Tokyo Olympics This is a nearly 50% increase in their funding.

LRC Preview

The Non-Millrose Action LRC Weekend Preview: Rupp And Hasay At USA XC, Ches, Engels, And A Lot Of $$$ At Camel City, & Fast Races In Karlsruhe The Super Bowl may be on Sunday but we are calling Saturday “Super Saturday” as there is going to be incredible action taking place all day long across the globe. If you are a distance fan, you might as well cancel your plans as there is going to be riveting action all day long.
*MB: What a weekend. Rupp and Hasay go for XC titles, Engels vs Ches at Camel City + Millrose
*MB: Rupp & Hasay to run 2018 USA Cross Country Championships
*Update: Jordan Hasay opts for training – won’t race
*D3 star Emily Richards (2:00.62 pb) is running Camel City 800
*USATF’s USA XC Champs Preview

Non-Distance News

Mutaz Essa Barshim Clears World Leading 2.38m At The Asian Indoor Championships In Iran
Some Have Accused Oscar Pistorius Of Getting “Special Treatment” Now That He Is Being Held In A “Relaxed Jail” For Non-Violent Offenders Who Have Sentences Six Years Or Less At this prison, Pistorius has his own bathroom and can grow his own food, but an analyst says he may be there because of his disability and because he has been deemed “low risk.”
Poland’s Piotr Lisek CLears 5.83m To Beat World Champ Sam Kendricks In Cottbus, Germany
Young Sprint Star Noah Lyles Talks About The Highs And Lows Of His Roller Coaster 2017 Lyles went under 20-seconds for the first time and won the 200m DL trophy, but a hamstring injury cost him a trip to Worlds.
Christian Coleman Talks About his Love For Sprinting Coleman says he’s enjoyed sprinting since he was six years old and ran for a track club in Atlanta.

Women’s Distance News

Shalane Flanagan Is Going To Be In A Super Bowl Commercial She appears briefly in a Michelob Ultra commercial with actor Chris Pratt, golfer Brooks Koepka and surfer Kelly Slater.
*RW Article With Some More Details On The Commercial Which Will Feature Flanagan Singing “I Like Beer”
*Watch The Commercial Here
Laura Muir Shares How She Deals With The Double Grind Of Being A Pro Runner And A Full-Time Veterinary Student “You make your priorities. You just get it done. You finish work. You go and train. It’s not more complicated than that.”
Profile / Q&A:Allie Kieffer Is Still Flying High After Her NYC Breakthrough Talking about what she did differently ahead of NYC, Kieffer says she did all her workouts on the roads (instead of the track) and ran her easy days faster (7:15 pace).
Good Read:Profile On 2:29 British Marathoner Aly Dixon, Who Has “Unfinished Business” At The 2018 Commonwealth Games The 39-year-old had a DNF at the 2014 Games, but says it was a blessing in disguise because it motivated her to continue on and hit new highs in the years since.
Athletics Illustrated:“The Anatomy Of Kate Van Buskirk’s National Mile Record” Talking about what she has done to reach her 4:26.92, Buskirk mentions training with Canadian steeplechaser Matt Hughes, which helped her hit times in workouts she hasn’t been able to in the past.

International Pro News

World Decathlon Champion Kevin Mayer Of France Is Eyeing Ashton Eaton’s World Record “Clearly it’s on my mind. I don’t know when it will happen – if it will happen – but I know that I have the potential to do it, it’s up to me to do it.”
Olympic And World 110H Champ Omar McLeod Might Skip The Commonwealth Games McLeod says he may focus instead on defending his world indoor title and trying to break the WR during outdoor season. He also talks about moving to the 400H after Tokyo 2020.
Caster Semenya Leads Announced South African Team For 2018 Commonwealth Games The big name missing is Wayde van Niekerk, who is still recovering from the knee injury (and subsequent surgery) he sustained during a rugby game.
IAAF Launches Inside Athletics Podcast The first episode features interviews with Mary Keitany, Hellen Obiri, Christian Coleman, Sydney McLaughlin and Mutaz Barshim. Listen to episode #1 here or download for free here.