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LRC Stockholm Recap: Young Stars Duplantis & Echevarria Get First DL Wins, Echevarria 8.83!!!!!, Women’s 1,500 Goes Out In Sub-60 This meet was surprisingly entertaining with world leads in 5,000, 100H, 1,000 and discus. Jenny Simpson 4th in the 1,500.

• Stockholm Discussion: Echevarria Goes 8.83. Will he get WR? With .1 less wind it would have been longest jump in world since Mike Powell‘s WR.
• First Time Ever A Women’s 1,500 Has Gone Out Sub-60? 59.96 For 1st 400 In Stockholm Turns out it was done 25 years ago.
•  Live Stockholm DL Thread

LRC Saturday’s Racers Grand Prix: Results And Video – Noah Lyles Goes Sub-10 For First Time At Racers Grand Prix In Jamaica Ajee Wilson went sub-2 in the 800.
*IAAF Recap:Zharnel Hughes Runs 9.91 World Lead Noah Lyles was 2nd (9.93) and Yohan Blake 3rd (10.00). Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce continued her comeback from childbirth with a 11.10 victory while Kirani James out-dipped Fred Kerley to take the 400m in 44.35.

Sprint Stuff

• Noah Lyles Says He’s Eyeing Usain Bolt’s 19.19 World Record – “I dream about it every night.” Lyles also talked about Jamaican sprint dominance: “Doesn’t feel good. Seeing Americans not at the top hurts my soul.”
• Court Drops Multiple Charges Against High School Sprinter Tyrese Cooper Cooper won’t face any legal action for multiple felony charges after his alleged involvement in two car robberies.
• Wayde van Niekerk Still Recovering From Injury, Won’t Race At All In 2018
• China Vs. Canada: Can Precise Passing Conquer Raw Speed? That’s the question that will be decided when these two 4 x 100 squads clash at the Harry Jerome Invitational on June 26-27.

Non-NCAA Weekend Action

• Genzebe Dibaba Runs 3:56.68 World Lead To Win The 1,500 In Chorzow, Poland The time was the third-fastest 1,500 of her career and a Polish all-comers record. Another Polish soil record went down to Ryan Crouser in the SP as he threw 22.27m to beat Tom Walsh and set the record for the most career throws over 22m. Renaud Lavillenie won the PV (5.81m), Sergey Shubenkov won the 110H twice, Canada’s Commonwealth champ Christabel Nettey upset Brittney Reese in the LJ (6.88m), and Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk and Pawel Fajdek both had upset losses in the hammer as Gwen Berry threw 77.78m to take back her American record.
• Sunday:Ethiopia’s 2:05 Man Kelkile Gezahegn Looking To Defend His Title At The Lanzhou Marathon He faces 2:06 man Abayneh Ayele while last year’s runner-up Tigist Girma (2:29:05) faces Gulume Tollesa (2:23:06) and Merima Mohammed (2:23:06).
• IAAF Recap:Sri Lanka’s Aruna Darshana Dazzles At Asian Junior Champs Breaking A 19-Year-Old Meet Record To Win The 400m In 45.79

Paavo Nurmi Games And Other Recent Results

• IAAF Paavo Nurmi Games Recap:Magnus Kirt Wins Javelin Showdown With Estonia NR Of 88.73 Kirt beat out German duo Thomas Rohler and Johannes Vetter, but didn’t pass the 93.09 Finnish record, so did not get to win his own island. Other winners included Meskerem Mamo in the 3,000 (8:38), Youness Essalhi in the 1,500 (3:38.39), Sergey Shubenkov 110H (13.18), Ramil Guliyev 200m (20.23) and Sandra Perkovic discuss (66.22m). *Results
• Connor Clark (3:54) And Tracee Van Der Wyk (4:29) Win State Street Mile Titles In Santa Barbara Van der Wyk just beat out Kim Conley (4:30) while Clark won a close race over Reid Buchanan and Craig Lutz, who also both ran 3:54 (top 11 all were sub-4).
• 10-Year-Old Arielle Avina Wins Rock ‘N’ Roll San Diego 5K In 19:20 She’s the youngest female to ever win a RnR series 5k event.

More Hayward Field News

• Bill Bowerman’s Sons Are So Against The Hayward Field Design They Made Phil Night Take Take Their Father’s Name Off The Nine-Story Tower Knight admitted that the criticism from the Bowermans and Steve Prefontaine‘s sisters has been disappointing and hard to take.
• Daily Emerald:40 Advocates Of Preserving Hayward Field’s East Grandstand Host A Discussion To Take Action Former Oregon coach Peter Thompson: “We’re not against the renovation at all. … The university right now is not working with the community. We don’t need something sleek and glitzy – we need something Eugene.”
• Ken Goe Says Phil Knight And His Wife Should Get Final Say On The Hayward Field Reconstruction Since They Are Putting Up Most Of The Money He should get say, but it’s at a public university on their property and will affect thousands of athletes and fans for years to come. It should not just be his call.
• Oregon Campus Will Lose One Street And 115 Parking Spots Due To Hayward Field Reconstruction
• Final Track Town Tuesday Of 2018 Season Will Be At Hayward Field With A Tribute To Former Oregon Coach And Three-Time Olympian Bill Dellinger

Weekend US Action

• LRC Solid Distance Results At The 2018 Music City Distance Carnival Highlights included Emily Richards (2:00.67) and Thomas Staines (1:45.57) taking the 800 wins and steeple wins from Genevieve Lalonde (9:38) and Anthony Rotich (8:34). 4:05.69 win by Marta Freitas in the 1,500.
  *DyeStat:Caitlin Collier (2:00.85 800) And Brodey Hasty (8:00.92 3,000) Come Up Big At Music City Distance Carnival Collier: “This was a much bigger mental battle against myself. I realized I could go out and run against all those other women.”
  *MileSplit: Caitlin Collier Runs #5 All-Time 800 With 2:00.85
  *MB: Caitlin Collier 2:00.85
  *MB: Brodey Hasty Runs #3 All-Time 3000 With 8:00.92 At Music City
• RRW:Sarah Pagano Wins Freihofer’s Run With Big Final SurgeDiane Nukuri had a small lead towards the end, but Pagano surged past her in the final kilometer to win in 15:48 with Stephanie Bruce 2nd (15:53) and Nukuri 3rd (15:56).
• MileSplit Video Interview:Anthony Schwartz Runs 4th All-Time High School 100m With 10.09
• MB: Sophomore Matt Strangio Closes In 57 To Win California State Meet 3200 In 8:56
• Anna Hall Breaks National High School Heptathlon Record with 5798 She destroyed Kendell Williams‘ record by 220 points and she’s only a junior in HS.
• Katelyn Tuohy Runs Double US#1s Ahead Of New York State Meet 4:22 for 1,500 and 9:15 for 3k at the same HS meet is pretty darn impressive.
• MB: Zach Miller’ Amazing North Face 50 Miler Finish

Sprints And Jumps

• Recommended Read:Dawn Harper Nelson Tells The Story Behind Her 2008 Olympic 100H Gold Harper talks about coming back to the athlete village and sharing a room with teammate Damu Cherry, who was 4th. “All night she was crying in bed and I am in the other bed knowing I am Olympic champion, bursting with emotion.”
• Bahamas 400 Runner Steven Gardiner Shares The High And Low Of His Career Apparently third time was the charm for Gardiner as e won World silver last year after having the two lows of his career at Rio 2016 and Beijing 2015.
• IAAF:100 Years After Her Birth, Francina “Fanny” Blankers-Koen’s Legacy Lives On She is most remembered for winning four golds at the 1948 London Olympics in the 100, 200, 80m hurdles and 4 x 100.
• Jamaica’s Commonwealth Games TJ Champ Kimberly Williams Explains Her Love For The Sport “The best thing about triple jump is that it is very technical and it feels easy when you do it right. I often know it is a good jump when I’m going into the jump phase because it feels like I have been in the air forever.”