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Stanford MB Talk: Official 2018 Stanford Invite discussion thread & play by play
*Carrie Dimoff (31:55) – a 34-year old Princeton alum whom you’ve never heard off – just beat Schwiezer (32:00) and almost beat Jorgensen (31:55.57) )at 10k The mother of two ran 31:55.58 to Jorgensen’s 31:55.57 as Schweizer ran 32:00.55 (#8 all-time in the NCAA).
*Gwen Jorgenson 10km Prediction Thread
*Drew Hunter runs 3:39 Hunter was 2nd, Peter Callahan won in 3:38.

2018 Cardinal Invite, Texas Relays, Raleigh Relays And Florida Relays Streaming Info & Results
USATF Unveils Outdoor Broadcast Schedule The Pre Classic, USA Outdoors and 5th Avenue Mile will all be on regular NBC.
TFN’s Six Big Things To Watch This Weekend
MB: Sydney McLaughlin 50.07 at Florida relays! She’s now #2 in the history of the NCAA and US Juniors.
Sydney McLaughlin Opens Outdoor Season With 22.39 PR At Florida Relays That’s #4 all-time on the world junior list and .29 faster than she ran indoors but .01 slower than what Gabby Thomas‘ indoor CR.
MB: Christian Taylor runs 45.48 at Florida Relays + Bershawn ‘Batman’ Jackson isn’t retired afterall
Texas Relays: What, Who To Watch On Friday And Saturday
Stanford Invite preview Oregon’s Katie Rainsberger is also in the women’s 10,000 while Allie Ostrander is listed in the steeple/5,000, Drew Hunter is in the 1,500 against Stanford’s Sean McGorty and Oregon’s Sam Prakel and former Olympic silver medalist Nijel Amos highlights the 800.
The Trial Of Ex-Arizona Throws Coach Craig Carter Has Begun The article has all of the salacious details on how the coach threatened to kill himself and an athlete he coached after she ended their sexual relationship.
How Penn State Thrower David Lucas Won An Indoor National Title In His Third-Best Event (Weight Throw)
Local Writer Raves About Mel Rosen’s Impact On The Auburn Community He “was one of those teachers who was seriously interested in getting to know and help others.”
Is Mt. SAC Defying A Court Order To Stop All Construction On The 2020 Olympic Trials Stadium? A local group says their video proves the answer is yes.

News From Japan

After Getting Guinness WR Certificate For Most Career Dub-2:20 Marathons (78), Yuki Kawauchi Says He Wants To Do More Than 100
Two Japanese HS Stars Say They’ll Join A Club Team After Graduation, Won’t Run Collegiately Or For Corporate Team They reason is simple, they want to focus on the track. “Corporate leaguers and university runners seem like they’re focused on ekidens, so we’ve chosen a way that’ll give us more freedom to run track.”

Previous US News

Time To Stop The Silent Coup? Ken Goe: Wouldn’t It Make Sense For USATF To Reinstate Vin Lananna? We loved this line. “If there is more to the USATF board’s move against Lananna than a struggle for control at the top, the board should explain. If not, it’s time to reinstate him and get to work.”
Working For Nike Has Its Benefits Cal Poly Dedicates Steve Miller And John Capriotti Athletics Complex The two donated a lot thanks to the Nike money they’ve earned over the years.
NYTimes: Do Higher Testosterone Levels Increase Your energy And Libido? They say “probably not” assuming your levels are in the normal range.
NYT: It Doesn’t Matter How You Get Your 30 Minutes Of exercise Per Day If you want to do 15 episodes of 2 minutes each, it still benefits you.
Brave Like Gabe: Q&A With Gabriele Grunewald – Athletebiz Grunewald reveals that an immunotherapy clinical trial “didn’t work quite as well as my doctor hoped” but her most recent scan in January was encouraging.
Recommended Read US Pole Vault Champ Katie Nageotte Credits Her Big Breakthrough To Moving To Be Coached By Former US Vaulter Brad Walker Nageotte was a shock winner at USAs as she made her first international team and went on to finish 5th at World Indoors. She says a large part of it is Walker helping change her mental approach to vaulting.

Week That Was

WTWHow Does Kamworor Stack Up Versus Bekele And Farah? ESPN Overrates Allyson Felix, Bernard Lagat Isn't The Fastest Masters Half Marathoner

All of the above plus we debate whether Laura Muir is a 10k runner.

Drug News

WADA Considering Changing Its Name To Generate More Funding WADA wants to expand it’s brand to be more about fighting drugs in society, not just sport. They hope they can reinvest in their scientific research budget which has taken an 80% cut over the last 10-years.
InsideTheGames’ Nick Butler Hits The Nail On The Head:“Cheating Still Goes On In Sport Because Rewards Often Outweigh The Risks” $$$ … need we say more?
The Guardian Opinion Piece: “My Dad Used Performance Enhancing Drugs – It Nearly Killed Him” A British woman explains how her dad’s PED and cocaine abuse as a professional powerlifter almost cost him his life and wrecked havoc on their family. We enjoyed the piece except for the end when she says the drugs didn’t really help him much.
Cycling:Chris Froome Could Be Banned From This Year’s Tour De France If His Ongoing Drug Case Hasn’t Been Resolved

Post-World Half News Of Note

Geoffrey Kamworor Returns To Kenya With No Fanfare At Eldoret Airport, Says Focus Now Is 2018 Diamond League Circuit There was no big celebration which didn’t disappoint Kamworor. His 8-month-old son was very happy to see dad and play with his gold medal.
*Kamworor Says Defending NYC Title Is How He Wants To End The Year
Cam Levins Is Thrilled With His PR At World Half And With His Health “I’m really pleased with the race. My foot finally felt perfect the last few weeks; I was able to train both hard and consistently. I’m really excited to see what I can do in the next month before I start track season.”
The Alfonso Trinidad Foundation, Sponsors Of The World Half Marathon, Put In Extra $50,000 Purely For Testing More Athletes

Interesting Reads From Europe

Recommended Read: Meet The Two Women Behind Wafel Sports Management Who Are Succeeding As Agents In A Male-Dominated Profession The two met as 9-year-olds on the same athletics club and now represent Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam and others. Check out their website here.
London Marathon Event Director Hugh Brasher Talks About How The Race Is Always Looking To Improve This is a really interesting article. Did you know that his mother was the 1957 French Open tennis champ? Or that the London Marathon will pass the £1 billion mark in terms of funds raised for charity in 2019?
Even Though She Hasn’t Been Running Well Lately, The UK’s Hannah England Has Been Making A Lot Of Contributions In Athletics The 2011 WC silver medalist at 1,500 and former FSU star recently formed the Birmingham Athletics Academy (@BhamAthAcademy) offering weekly athletics sessions for kids.

Junior News

Meet The 15-Year-Old – Romaine Beckford – Who Won Both The Class 2 Discus Aand HJ At Jamaica’s Champs
Edwin Allen High’s Kevona Davis Pulls Out Of Carifta Games Squad With Hamstring Injury Davis was fantastic at the recent Boys and Girls Champs recording times of 11.16 seconds for the 100m and 22.72 over 200m.
Jaryd Clifford – Who Soon Will Be The First Para-Athlete To Compete At An IAAF World U20 Championship Thanks To His Recent 3:45 WR – Blogs About His History In The Sport He started off his career with a last place finish in a cross country race.

Mid-Week Action In Australia *Brisbane Results

Luke Mathews (3:37.16) Takes Down Kyle Merber (3:37.49) In Brisbane, Zharnel Hughes Smokes 20.23 Into -1.6 m/s Wind You can watch both races by clicking on the link.
Yohan Blake And Elaine Thompson Won Their 100m Heats But Neither Ran Fast As They Were Running Into A Headwind

Previous CG News

Elaine Thompson Will Only Race 200 Meters at Commonwealth Games
MB: The Commonwealth Games start next week does anyone care! We certainly do.
Kenyan President Hosts Gathering For Departing Commonwealth Games, Realizes They Are All Sullen As They Haven’t Been Given Any Meal Money He ordered them to be paid their allowances. Elijah Manangoi chimed in that many athletes dating to 2012 haven’t received their Olympic bonuses.
Star Actor Russell Crowe Says Australia Desperately Needs Sally Pearson At CGs And Tweets, “We need you Sally. Hero’s are hard to find around these parts these days …” Pearson is battling an Achilles injury.

International News

IAAF: How World Half Champ Netsanet Gudeta Went From Dubai Disappointment To Victory In Valencia After a DNF in Dubai, neither Gudeta or her manager were at all expecting a gold medal or WR run in Spain.
Three Time Canadian 1,500 Olympian Nate Brannen Has Retired From The Track After 20 Years In The Sport Brannen isn’t completely done running though as he plans on training for the marathon.
IAAF Story Behind The Picture: Getty Images Photographer Reflects On GB’s Kelly Holmes Winning 800m Gold At The 2004 Games Interestingly, Stu Forster explains how the iconic image would likely be used completely differently with the background cropped out if it had been taken today.

Sprints And Jumps

This Time It Counts!Christian Coleman’s 6.34 World Record For 60m Ratified By The IAAF
Pre Classic 110H Will Be Most Loaded One Ever With McLeod, Merritt, Allen, Shubenkov And Others
Video:Usain Bolt Jokes (?) That He’ll Try To Get The Footage Of His Soccer Trial To Manchester United Manager Jose Mourinho Bolt isn’t joking about trying to make it in soccer, though, as he sounds very sincere in his interview.

British MPs Have Threatened To Reopen Inquiry Into Seb Coe’s “Very Murky” $17 Million Deal During The 2012 Olympics There are conflict of interest concerns as Coe’s company “made a fortune at the Olympics” while Coe was the chairman of the London 2012 organizing committee.

US Winter Olympians And Paralympians Visiting The White House Next Month

Doping News

Must Read:NY Times Expose On Arizona Man Who Used A Clever Online Business Model To Distribute PEDs (In The Form Of Peptides) Around The WorldMichael A. Moorcones‘ customers included professional athletes in the NFL, MLB, NBA, and track and field. In one year, he shipped to more than 8,000 people and had $1 million in sales.
*Discuss
WADA Still Pursuing Historic Allegations Of State-Sponsored Chinese Doping In The 1980s And ’90s This is in response to the accusations by a former Chinese Olympic team doctor who says athletes as young as 11 were forced to dope.
Russian Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov Meets With US Government Officials To Discuss Russian Doping But he wore a mask to “hide his identity”?
WADA Propose Charter Of Athletes’ Rights To Improve Anti-Doping System Following Russian Scandal WADA Athlete Committee chair Beckie Scott said, “I think the Russian doping scandal exposed a lot more than doping in Russia. It exposed fractures and conflicting loyalties in the whole system.”
WADA Annual Symposium Recap: “Compliance, Funding And Capturing The Athlete’s Voice”

2018 Diamond League Will Be In Full Swing Soon

Jenny Simpson Will Run The 3,000 In Doha Against Hellen Obiri – Will Mary Slaney’s AR From 1985 Finally Be Broken? The women’s 100 with Schippers and Thompson also should be good.
Olympic 400m Champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo And World 200m Champion Dafne Schippers Will Face Off At The Shanghai IAAF Diamond League On May 12
Rumor Is That Justin Gatlin Got Between $25,000 To $42,000 To Do That 150-Meter Race In South Africa SA lj star Luvo Manyonga didn’t compete as he was upset about his appearance fee but somehow forgot to tell his parents who showed up anyway. If you haven’t see the video of Gatlin’s 150m loss, it’s worth a watch.

Random Ethiopian News

Previous NCAA News

Unreal Coming Into The Year, NAU’s Ashley Taylor Had A 2:10 PR And Had Never Made NCAAs, But She Just Fnished 4th At NCAAs And Ran 2:03 The redshirt junior who used to focus on the 400H has had an incredible year.
Triathlon Website Predicts Gwen Jorgensen Will Run 31:20-31:30 This Weekend At Stanford How she is doing this just months after giving birth is beyond our imagination.
Claudia Lane Back On Track After Getting Flu, Will Run First 3,200 Of Year At Stanford
Mondo Duplantis Cleared To Compete Elite Men’s Pole Vault At Texas Relays His participation was up in the air for a week as the Louisiana HS Athletic Association was threatening to take away his eligibility if he did.
Interesting Read: Florida 4 X 400 Leadoff Kunle Fasasi Came To UF Sight Unseen From Nigeria To Take His Scholarship “The day that Kunle Fasasi believes he’s one of the best 400-meter runners in the world,” coach Holloway said. “Watch out.”
Mutaz Essa Barshim Admits He Almost Came To The NCAA

Interesting International Reads

Yomij Kejelcha Credits Govt. Bringing Back Return Of Land Bonuses For His Gold Medal
Former GB Olympic Sprinter Craig Pickering Is Now Head Of Sports Science At DNAFit That Does DNA Tests On Athletes To Tell Them How To Train Better He claims they even know which athletes are jittery after consuming caffeine due to genetics.
Recommended Read:39-Year-Old Carles Castillejo Was The Star of the World Half Champs Media Wise in Spain As He Started Back With The Masses, But Passed Most Of The Field To Finish 29th In 62:06 The pure joy on his face when he crossed the line is what garnered him nationwide tv time. Castillejo was originally supposed to be on the Spanish squad, but was booted when they realized they could only enter five, not six. This was unfortunate for them as Castillejo would have been their top man and brought the team from 6th to 8th.
*Q&A With Castillejo translated from Spanish
RR #2: Switzerland’s 22-Year-Old World Half 8th Placer Julien Wanders Has Spent Most Of The Last Three Years Living And Training In Kenya At just 18 years old, Wanders decided to skip going to college to go pursue running full-time in Kenya. On what he’s learned there, he says Europeans “are not training hard enough and thinking too much about recovery.”

Previous Commonwealth Games News

Three Time Commonwealth Games Champ Moses Kipsiro Dropped From Uganda Team The Uganda federation wanted him to defend his title in the 10,000, but Kipsiro was only interested in the marathon and they felt they had better options at that distance.
Caster Semenya To Carry South African Flag At Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony It will be the third time Semenya has carried SA’s flag at an Opening or Closing ceremony.
Sally Pearson Battling Achilles Problem Ahead Of Commonwealth Games Pearson has been battling the injury for the past few weeks and skipped her tune-up race in Brisbane.
South Africa’s 100m World Leader Carina Horn Withdraws From Commonwealth Games With Injury
Sally Pearson And Paralympic Wheel Chair Racer Kurt Fearnley Named Team Co-Captains For Commonwealth Games

RIP News

Good Read: RunBlogRun:RunBlogRun: USA 1996 Olympic Marathoner Keith Brantly Remembers His Coach Dr. David Martin Brantly tells how Martin began coaching him in 1985 and to his surprise laid out a 16-year plan that would ultimately get him to the Olympics.
NY Times Tribute To Hall Of Fame Coach Mel Rosen, Who Passed At 90 Years Old Rosen coached at Auburn University for 36 years and served as the head coach for Team USA at the 1987 World Championships and 1992 Olympics Games.
*USATF Mourns Coach Mel Rosen
RIP Britain’s Oldest Olympian Bill Lucas The 1948 Olympic 5,000 runner passed at age 101.