July 03, 2018 Homepage Archive

Lausanne DL Is Thursday Schedule & Entries TV & Streaming

LRC The Race Of The Year Is Here: Noah Lyles Vs. Michael Norman In The 200 In Lausanne Two 20-year-old mega-talents – both undefeated in outdoor 200s since the 2016 Olympic Trials – will battle on Thursday. Enjoy it as big-time men’s sprint stars hardly ever face each other on the DL circuit.
*MB: The matchup of the year is here: Noah Lyles vs Michael Norman July 5th in Lausanne: Who you got?

LRC 2018 Lausanne DL Preview: Houlihan Vs. Semenya, The Quest For Sub-13:00, & Could The 400 Hurdles WR Go Down? Thursday’s Lausanne DL looks like a dandy as there is a world record attempt by Abderrahman Samba, a stacked 1,500 with Shelby Houlihan, Caster Semenya, Gudaf Tsegay, Laura Muir and Sifan Hassan, a quality men’s 5k featuring breakout star Selemon Barega and a women’s 800 where Ajee Wilson will attempt to earn her first Diamond League win in three years.
*MB: Who has the edge? Shelby Houlihan vs Caster Semenya at 1500 in Lausanne on Thursday

2018 Paris DL Full Results TV & Streaming

Full Results

LRC 2018 Paris DL Recap & Video Highlights: What An Incredible, Incredible Meet – World Leaders Galore If you missed the 2018 Paris DL, you missed a TRULY INCREDIBLE MEET. From a 46.98 men’s 400 hurdles – the fastest time in more than 25 years – in the first event to a 9.88 world-leading 100 in the last event, this meet had world leaders literally from start to finish. In between, there was a 1:54 women’s 800 and a 3:29 men’s 1,500. This meet had excellence in it from start to finish.
*France’s Jimmy Vicaut Moves To Top Of European 100m List With 9.91 In Paris

LRC Caster Semenya Runs 1:54.25 With No Rabbits To Become 4th-Fastest Ever And Destroy World’s Best In Paris Semenya was spectacular.

Paris DL Talk On The Message Board
*Official Paris DL Discussion Thread
*Caster Semenya has just destroyed her lifetime PB, without any rabbits. 1:54.25!
*Timothy Cheruiyot runs 3:29 FTW in Paris!
*Ferguson Rotich just closed a 1:43 race in 25.5. Where does that rank in the all-time best closes?

Depression Is Real And It’s Powerful

Recommended ReadThe Dark Lining Of The Prefontaine Mantra: Lessons From Hale Ross’ Life At Yale A personal essay from the father of the Yale XC runner who committed suicide just days after a disappointing run at the Ivy League championships. Does Pre’s mantra of “to give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift” take a psychological toll?
*MB: Yale Runner Dies (thoughts from a mom who lost a son to suicide at Yale)
*MB: Yale Runner Hale Ross Dies

LetsSprint.com

RIP Legendary Polish Sprinter Irena Szewinska Szewinska remains one of the most successful athletes in history with seven Olympic medals to her name from five Olympic appearances. *IAAF Tribute
Get To Know Canada’s Commonwealth Games 200m Silver Medalist Aaron Brown, Who Discovered His Talent In 10th Grade Running 11.5 In Basketball Shorts/Trainers Brown is learning to play the piano and feels that the current generation of sprinters doesn’t have “as big egos” as previous ones.
Belarus’ 2015 World Bronze Medalist Alina Talay Is A Student Of The Sport And Has Coached Herself To A New Level Running 12.41 (3rd Fastest Time In 2018) “Honestly, I have no idea how many hours I spend scrolling through the videos on my phone of exercises, runs, hurdling, everything.”
Commonwealth Games 400H Champ Janieve Russell Reveals She Got Her Start In The 400 Hurdles By Accident She was mistakenly registered for the 400H at a Jamaican meet and qualified for the prestigious Boys and Girls Champs.

Some Great Races To Look Forward To The Next Couple Of Weeks

Sunday:Out Of The Boston Freezer And Into The Australian Frying Pan For Yuki Kawauchi At The Gold Coast Marathon The Boston champ will face defending winner Takuya Noguchi and CR holder and two-time winner Kenneth Mungara. The women’s race is led by AgnesBarsosio (2:20:59) and 2:27 Aussie Jess Trengove. Sara Hall will try to defend her title in the accompanying half marathon while the men’s race has Collis Birmingham.
Fourth Of July: USATF 10k Road Champs Are At Peachtree On 7/4 – Who You Got? Gwen Jorgensen And Lopez Lomong Both Added To The Field
July 5:Lausanne DL Announces Strong Women’s 1,500 Field, Led By 3:57.64 Woman Gudaf Tsegay, Caster Semenya, Shelby Houlihan And Laura Muir
Ethiopia’s World Leader Selemon Barega (13:04) Leads Loaded 5,000 Field In Lausanne Barega is up against world champ Muktar Edris and Paul Chelimo.
A Race You Won’t Want To Miss:Christian Coleman And Noah Lyles 100m Showdown Set For Rabat DL On July 13th USA’s Ronnie Baker is also in the race.
Sunday:Reigning Champion Maude Mathys Aiming To Repeat For Switzerland At Euro Mountain Running Champs

Distance News

IAAF Releases Some Interesting Changes To Competition Rules As Of June 2018 The IAAF is no longer recognizing road world records for the 15k, 20k, 25k or 30k (makes sense since they are rarely run and most of the WRs come from half or full marathon splits) and interesting up until now the road 5k was not an official WR, but it will be moving forward.
*MB:New IAAF rules are out – Will Zoom Vaporfly 4% be banned for violating “spirit of the universality of athletics?”
Japanese 2:27 Marathoner Miharu Shimokado Quits Corporate League To Go Independent “I want to show that you don’t have to throw the woman part away to get stronger, that we are strong because we are women.”
Video: Haron Lagat Calls Out IAAF Officials Over Transfer Of Allegiance Issue The IAAF won’t let him run for the US despite him living here for the last 16 years.
Want To Be A Runner In The Wonder Woman Sequel? Here’s Your Chance Producers are looking for “men and women of all ethnicities to play joggers” in the Arlington, VA area. They are choosing runners today and tomorrow.
Comrades Marathon Winner Ann Ashworth Publicly Snubs “Unsupportive” Athletics South Africa She declined an invite from them to compete in the World 100k Champs this September saying that they don’t do enough to support SA road runners.

The Best Of

LRC The Best Interviews From 2018 USAs: Centro On How Being Fitter Allows Him To Race Smarter, Coburn On Jebet’s Positive, & The People’s Hero, Jordan Mann We know only a few of the biggest die-hards had time to watch all 79 interviews we conducted in the mixed zone at USAs (you can check out all the videos here). That’s okay. Below, we’ve selected our 10 favorite interviews from 2018 USAs. If you want to be educated, entertained, or both, check this out. From Noah Lyles to Matthew Centrowitz and Emma Coburn, we’ve got you covered.

Big Monday Action

Gyulai Memorial In Hungary:Sergey Shubenkov Runs 12.92 110H To Move To #8 All-Time The meet was full of high quality as there was a near WR in the men’s HJ and lots of good mid-d/distance action. In the women’s short hurdles, Sharika Nelvis collected her third 100H victory of the season in 12.55, 0.03 shy of her season’s best and 0.03 ahead of world record holder Kendra Harrison.
*Video:Mutaz Barshim Just Missed The High Jump World Record Today At 8’0¾” (2.46m) But Now He’s Injured
*Genzebe Dibaba Destroyed The Field, Including Kate Grace, In The Mile
*Ayanleh Souleiman Won The 1k In 2:16
*Clayton Murphy Ran A 1:44.69 SB In The 800 But Was Only 4th

Sprint / Field Event / Multi News

Andre De Grasse’s Agent Paul Doyle Denies Published Report That De Grasse Has Parted Ways With ALTIS Doyle said the report “is complete speculation and unfounded,” but does admit that De Grasse is currently in Canada training with his HS coach.
One We Missed:400 National Records Of Switzerland (50.52), Netherlands (50.96) And Lithuania (50.99) All Fell In Same 400
Rai Benjamin Announces He Won’t Race Samba At All In 2018 As He Will Not Run Another 400H This Year
Jake Doran, 17, Runs 10.15 Aussie Junior Record “Completely Out Of Nowhere,” PR Before Today Was 10.47
Injured Lemaitre Out Of European Champs At the Paris DL, he pulled up clutching his leg and fell to the track.
Maggie Ewen (37.8%) And Grant Holloway Win Fan Vote For The Bowerman (47.9%) We definitely think the women’s award should go to a field eventer.
Diverse Group Of Italian Runners Wins 4 X 400 Praise And Thousands On Social Media Praise Them For Being The New Face Of Italy Many are using it as an opportunity to take a shot at the new interior minister who is anti-immigration, Matteo Salvini.
Caster Semenya Wasn’t The Only South African To Set A National Record Last Week, Rikenette Steenkamp Ran A 12.81 100H NR
400H World Champ Karsten Warholm Recalls Competing At World Juniors 4 Years Ago … In The Decathlon
World Leader In LJ, Lorraine Ugen (7.05m), Hopes 7+ Meter Jumps Become Routine After Her First Ugen, who was 5th in the 100 final as well (11.32), credits speedwork to her improvement.
24-Yesr-Old Beth Dobbin Can’t Believe She’s The British 200 Champ Even Though Many Thought She’d Win “Everyone has been saying since Eton ‘you’re going to win trials’ but I thought no, because the girls that I’m racing against are a different level. But I’ve won trials, I can’t believe it. It’s a dream come true.”
25-Year-Old Katarina Johnson-Thompson Thinks Her Best Is Yet To Come And Is Very Happy She Relocated From The UK To France After 2016 “I know I’ve got a limited amount of Olympics in one career so I just want to make sure I’ve done everything I could.”

2018 British Athletics Champs *Results

Sunday Men’s Recap: Chris O’Hare Leads Scottish 1-2-3 Sweep Of 1.500 As Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Breaks Championship Best For British 200m Gold Also NCAA decathlon champ Tim Duckworth won the LJ.
*MB: How in the world is this possible? Before today, the British champs 200m record was just 20.25. Now it’s 20.24
After 5 Injury-Plagued Years, Dai Greene Will Savor His 400H Title
Sunday Women’s Recap:Lorraine Ugen’s WL 7.05m Long Jump Headlines Best British Champs In Years
IAAF Recap Of Sunday
Controversy Top UK Pros Claim Laura Muir Was Allowed To Enter 800 At UK Champs After Deadline; Muir Wins Race
Athletics Weekly’s Recap Of Saturday’s Men’s Action At British Champs Reece Prescod (10.06) wins the 100 over Zharnel Hughes (10.13) as Marc Scott wins a tactical 5,000.
Saturday’s Women’s Recap: Dina Asher-Smith’s 10.97 100m Was The Highlight
Prescod Hopes Brits Can Pull Off 1-2-3 Sweep In 100m At Europeans
Linford Christie’s 9.87 National Record Still Stands Even Though There Was Talk Of It Going Down

Other Weekend Action / News

Gold Coast Marathon: Kenya’s Ruth Chebitok Wins Women’s Race In New Course Record Of 2:24:49 as 44-Year-Old Kenneth Mungara Wins Third Men’s Title In 2:09:49 Chebitok was the first Kenyan women’s winner at Gold Coast ever (40th edition). Boston Marathon champ Yuki Kawauchi was just 9th in 2:14:51. *IAAF
*Australia’s Jessica Trengrove Picks Up $40,000 Bonus For Running Under 2:28:00 For 2nd (2:26:29)
Gold Coast Half Marathon:Americans Sara Hall (69:27) And Laura Thweatt (70:17) Both Set PRs At Sunday’s Gold Coast Half Marathon
Kirani James Continues Comeback From Illness With 44.99 Victory In Guyana
Comrades Champ Ann Ashworth Turns Down World 100km Spot, Rips Athletics South Africa “Until you can actually start doing something to assist road runners in our country with funding and other support, I’m not happy to compete in SA colours.”
Mediterranean Games: Morocco’s Rababe Arafi Pulls Off 800/1,500 Double As Mediterranean Games Conclude
European Mountain Champs – Men: Dematteis Twins Bernard And Martin Go 1-3 At European Mountain Champs To Lead Italian Men’s Sweep
European Mountain Champs – Women: Switzerland’s Maude Mathys Obliterates Field By More Than 4 Minutes To Repeat As Champion

Mid-D News

Penn State’s NCAA 800 Champ Isaiah Harris Signs With Nike Harris is passing on his final year of eligibility, but will still train at Penn State and finish his degree next spring.
Josh Kerr Unfazed By Being British Number One “I think being over in America definitely distracts you from the UK pressures but being in America brings its own pressures because the level is ridiculous.”
Cellphine Chespol Using Paris DL As A Tuneup For World U20 Champs The 8:58 woman is looking forward to defending her U20 title in Finland next month.

Results From Europe

Olympic/World Champ Sandra Perkovic’s 66.46m Discus Throw Highlights Second Day Of Mediterranean Games Albania’s Luiza Gega went wire-to-wire to win the women’s steeplechase in 9:27 over Tunisia’s 2012 Olympic champion Habiba Ghribi (9:34).
Half Marathon Golds For Morocco’s Mohamed Reda Al Araaby (64:03) And Italy’s Sara Dossena (1:13.48) At Mediterranean Games
Belarus’ Elvira Herman Prevails Over Queen Harrison In The 100H (12.64 to 12.69) At The PTS Meeting In Slovakia World bronze medalist Wojciech Nowicki won his 4th-straight hammer competition with 76.89m, beating world champ Pawel Fajdek. Kenya swept the top 3 spots in the men’s 1,500 led by Boaz Kiprugut (3:50.57).

You Never Forget Your First Sub-4

Recommended Read:Nate Brannen: “Only 1,497 Humans Have Ever Broken The 4-Minute Mile And I’m One Of Them” You probably can name most Americans that went sub-4 in high school, but Brannen was actually the 7th North American high school athlete to break the barrier. Here he reflects back on that night and how it helped shape the rest of his career.

European News: British Champs This Weekend

BBC:Laura Muir, Zharnel Hughes And Dina Asher-Smith Among Those To Watch At This Weekend’s GB Champs Our race of the meet will definitely be the men’s 1500 which has Josh Kerr, Chris O’Hare, Jake Wightman and Charlie Grice.
Bummer:Appendicitis Forces Greg Rutherford To Miss GB Champs It was his last chance to rack up another national title as he’s retiring this year.
Athletics Weekly: “Ones To Watch At The British Championships”
Lawyer For Russian Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov Dismisses Reports Of A Suicide Attempt And Claims He’s “Happy And Healthy” The Russian media reported that Rodchenkov attempted suicide last week, but his lawyer dismissed it and says his client is “working productively with anti-doping authorities.”
Sweden’s Daniel Stahl Edges Out Jamaica’s World Leader Fedrick Dacres To Win Discus At Sollentuna Grand Prix With 66.17m
European Athletics European Mountain Running Championships Preview: Will Italy Regain The Team Title After Rare Defeat To France In 2017?

Oregon-Related News

Shannon Rowbury Has Successfully Given Birth To A Daughter Named Sienna The dad is 3:54 miler Pablo Solares and the baby has duel US-Mexican citizenship.
Constructionequipmentguide.com: Some Of The Wood From Hayward Field Will Be Reused In New Stadium, Other Wood Will Go To A Museum “They don’t make timbers like that anymore.”

Yet Another Big Idea That Appears To Not Be Working

This Is Starting To Remind Us Of The International Version Of The TrackTown Summer Series: We Guess They Aren’t Paying Enough – Many Top US Stars Who Are Eligible Will Skip Out On The 1st Athletics World Cup US champs Noah Lyles, Sandi Morris and Shakima Wimbley are all skipping out on the July 14-15 event. Whoever thought this event would be the new big thing in track but scheduled it for the day after the Rabat DL and 5 days before Monaco is an idiot. We don’t think promoting this thing at the expense of the DL is a good idea either.

Talented Teenagers

Sports Gene 2.0 Sophie O’Sullivan – Daughter Of Sonia O’Sullivan And Nic Bideau – Will Run Internationally For The First Time At This Week’s European U18 Champs The dual Australian-Irish citizen, who is the #3 seed in the 800, doesn’t have to choose a country until she’s out of U18 competition. We have no idea then why Rai Benjamin is being punished for running for Antigua as a minor at age 17 in 2015.
Q&A With Villanova’s Big Recruit Taryn O’Neill Of Canada The Malindi Elmore-coached athlete has PRs of 4:17.93 for 1,500 and 9:54.40 for 2 miles, which she set when she won the Brooks 2 mile.
Jamaica’s U20 National Record Holder At 400, Christopher Taylor (44.86), Ties Yohan Blake’s 100m U20 Record Of 10.11

Week That Was

LRCNew Blood At USAs, Attendance At Nationals Worldwide, Another Look At Kellyn Taylor’s 2:24:28, Dafne Schippers False Start Plus it is a travesty Haron Lagat is not eligible to run for US.

British Sprint News

GB’s Former Olympic 400m Champ Christine Ohuruogu Retires At 34 Years Old “I didn’t feel ready to retire after last season but a combination of my studies and a niggling injury restricted how much training I was able to do this year.”
Athletics Weekly:“High Flying Zharnel Hughes Is Reaching For The Sky” Hughes says he is “setting myself up for my future” by working towards a commercial pilot’s license alongside his track career.
The Telegraph:Britons Leading In Race To Succeed Usain Bolt But are they really? By our count, Americans have the three fastest times in the world this year.
Reece Prescod, Zharnel Hughes And CJ Ujah All Taking Aim At Linford Christie’s 25-Year-Old British National 100m Record This Weekend Christie’s record is 9.87 and Hughes has the best PR at 9.91, though Prescod ran a wind-aided 9.88 this year.
The Telegraph:Dina Asher-Smith Setting World-Beating Times As She Targets British Champs Gold

Sprints / Jumps

Anthony Schwartz Named Gatorade Boys Track And Field Athlete Of The Year Schwartz had the fastest high school 100m time of the year with 10.09. He was surprised with the news by Miami Dolphins 2018 first-round draft pick Minkah Fitzpatrick. *Surprise Video*MileSplit Article
Interesting Listen:Podcast Interview With Two-Time US Triple Jump Champ Omar Craddock Craddock talks mostly about off the track life things like dating world record holder Keni Harrison, struggling with alcoholism in college and behind the scenes stuff from the Diamond league circuit.
USA Today:Phyllis Francis Follows Her Own Path, Doesn’t Worry About Filling Allyson Felix’s Shoes How well do you know the World 400m champion? Get to know her better in this profile piece.