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Quote Of The Day

“The picture is of me dancing after I crossed the line. The dance was not pre-rehearsed, it came to me automatically because I was so happy. I just had a feeling I wanted to dance. As you can see I danced more with my arms because my legs were tired. It was a beautiful moment and I did another dance after I won the Chicago Marathon (in 2016). For me retaining my world title was a perfect moment. It proved I could be champion again and that is why I was so happy.”

– Two-time World marathon champion Abel Kirui explaining a picture of him dancing at the finish line after winning the 2011 World Championships.

Weekend Diamond League Action – Monaco Is Friday (2-4 pm ET), London On Saturday/Sunday (9-11 am ET) Monaco Schedule & Results TV & Streaming London Schedule / Entries TV & Streaming

LRC History In Monaco? Will An American Hurdle The 8:00 Or 9:00 Barrier In The Steeplechase In Monaco? We are living in the golden age of American steeplechasing. Will the 8:00 or 9:00 be barrier be broken by an America for 1st time on Thursday in Monaco?
*MB: MONACO PREDICTIONS, Jager sub 8:00, Coburn sub 9:00
*Monaco Shot Put: Ryan Crouser wins deepest shot put in history in Monaco with 22.05 heave It was the first time that 7 men through farther than 21.20.

LRC The 7 Things We Can’t Wait To See At The Monaco And London Diamond League Meets What a weekend. From a potential women’s WR in the 800 in Monaco to a Clayton Murphy vs. Emmanuel Korir clash in London, we break down this weekend’s biggest matchups including the men’s 1,500 in Monaco with the Kenyans, the Ingebrigtsens and Matthew Centrowitz and a women’s mile in London with Jenny Simpson, Sifan Hassan and Laura Muir.

IAAF Full Monaco Preview Noah Lyles will be in the house.
IAAF London DL full meet preview *Athletics Weekly
IAAF:Top 3 Moments In The History Of The Monaco Diamond LeagueGenzebe Dibaba running 3:50.07 to break Qu Yunxia‘s 22-year-old 1,500m record tops the all-distance event list.
IAAF:Top Three Moments In London Diamond League HistoryKeni Harrison‘s 12.20 WR in the 100H tops the list.

More From The World U20 Championships

IAAF Profile On Joint World U20 High Jump Champions Antonios Merlos Of Greece And Roberto Vilches Of Mexico When they both failed to clear 2.25m (after going over 2.23m on their first attempts) they decided to share the gold rather than have a jump off. They had never met, but found out afterward that they had a lot in common.
Hima Das (U20 400 champ) is already a household name for many in India As the first global gold medallist for India in any track event, she’s getting a lot of press and is already being compared to the ‘queen of Indian track and field’ – the legendary PT Usha, who was 4th in the 84 Olympics in the 400 hurdles. Usha herself is a huge fan, saying, “I am 100 percent sure that she has the potential to win gold at 2020 or 2024.”
US collegians won 17 individuals medals at World Juniors – more than any country Medal tally includes 5 gold and 5 silver medals.
IAAF Video:Ten Highlights From World U20 Champs Men’s 1500 and women’s 3000 make the list.

Distance News

Good Read: Katelyn Tuohy Wins Overall Gatorade National Girls Athlete Of The Year Award This after she became the first athlete to win the Gatorade award in two sports (XC and track).
*Watch Tuohy’s Acceptance Speech
*Video Interview
Recommended Read:Lengthy Q&A With NCAA 10,000m Champ Ben Flanagan Learn all about the surprise NCAA winner as he gives a ton of details about the race, his training and college/high school career.
A Japan University Track Meet Canceled Their 5000m Because Of Heat Temperatures climbed up over 95 degrees F (35 Celcius).
IAAF:Abel Kirui’s Story Behind The Picture – His 2011 World Champs Dance “The picture is of me dancing after I crossed the line. The dance was not pre-rehearsed, it came to me automatically because I was so happy.”

Sprint Stuff

BBC:Usain Bolt May Play Football In Australia Bolt will stay six weeks to try out with the Australian A-League club Coast Mariners. But apparently there are already negotiations over Bolt’s pay with the owner agreeing to pay 70% of his salary.
Recommended Read:BBC Article And Video Interview WIth British 200m Champion Beth Dobbin Who Suffered An Epileptic Seizure As A Teen That Left Her Unable To Walk Or Talk Dobbin talks about her seizure and the road to recovery which involved not recognizing her dad and thinking microwaves were cupboards were microwaves.
AP:Ohio’s Governor To Dedicate State Park Named For Jesse Owens

2018 IAAF World Juniors TV & StreamingResults

MB:Official 2018 World U20s (AKA World Juniors) Thread
Sunday: DyeStat: Tia Jones Takes Home USA’s Only Individual Gold In Thrilling 100H Final It was the narrowest margin of victory in meet history as she and Jamaica’s Britany Anderson had the same time to the thousandths place (13.012) so the tie breaker came to the 10-thousandths place.
IAAF:Italy Gets Surprise Men’s 4 X 400 Gold As Dropped Baton Costs Team USA The Race There was also a huge upset in the men’s steeplechase as Kenya lost its first race since 1988 with Ethiopia’s Takele Nigate getting the win in 8:25.35. Ethiopia also took the women’s 1,500 as Alemaz Samuel ran 4:09.67 and deemed it a “very easy” and “slow” race. Kenya’s Solomon Lekuta won the 800 in 1:46.45.
MileSplit Event-By-Event Sunday Highlights Team USA took their 9th-straight women’s 4 x 400 gold (they’ve won every edition since 2002).
USATF:Team USA Finishes Atop The Medal Table At IAAF World U20 Champs The US had 18 medals and dominated the points standings with 155, 43 ahead of runners-up Kenya. But Kenya and Jamaica won more golds.

Athletics World Cup Saturday Coverage

Clayton Murphy Beats World Indoor Champ Adam Kszczot In 800; Murphy Ran 1:46.52. The 800 is the 2nd-farthest event in the field event-rich competition (1,500 is the farthest).
United States Has Big Lead After Day 1 Of Athletics World Cup The US (109) is dominating with France 2nd (85) while Poland & Jamaica both have 77. *AW Recap
IAAF: Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk Throws Hammer World Lead (78.74m) While USA Tops Overnight Standings USA got a surprise win from Ashley Henderson in the women’s 100 as she ran 11.07 to beat double Olympic champ Elaine Thompson. Jamaica got sprint wins from Janieve Russell (400H in 55.10) and Stephenie Ann McPherson (400m in 50.98). Team USA also got a close win over Jamaica in the women’s 4 x 400 and men’s 4 x 100.
The Telegraph: Athletics World Cup Proves Mild Hit As “Fun” Event Attracts Sizeable London Crowd Despite all the star power at the Rabat DL, the number of fans that showed up there were dwarfed by the 30,000 at the World Cup.
Former World 400H Champ Dai Greene Says He’s Starting From Zero After Four Year Battle Back To Fitness Greene has hardly raced over the past 4 years with just one DNF in 2017, but he’s having his best year in a while after winning British Champs.
Host GB Only In 5th After Day 1 Of Athletics World Cup Despite Captain Lorraine Ugen’s LJ Win
France’s Pascal Martinot-Lagarde Wins 110H As GB’s World Indoor Champ Andre Pozzi DNFs
Athletics Weekly: World leader Deanna Price Of US Only 6th In Women’s Hammer
Holly Bradshaw also won the pole vault for Team GB
Reuters: Big-Name Absences Hang Over Inaugural World Cup Event One track writer criticized the team style event for its focus on countries rather than individual athletes.
USATF: Five Golds Put Team USA In Lead At Athletics World Cup

Doping News

FIFA Claim All Doping Tests Before And During Russia 2018 World Cup Have Been Negative They say 3,985 samples have been taken with all players from the final 4 teams being tested an average of 4.41 times since January.
Five More Russians Granted Neutral Status By The IAAF Includes a 2:13 marathoner in Artyom Alekseyev.
Not A Good Idea:Apparently People Are Using Activity Trackers (Like The Apple Watch) To Monitor Their Heart Rate While Taking Illegal Drugs One Reddit user says his heart rate got up to 240 after snorting meth and drinking Mountain Dew.
Vladimir Putin Claims FIFA World Cup Has Helped End Myths About Russia We’re not sure what he meant by “myths” but we’re assuming he didn’t mean institutionalized doping since that’s a fact.

Inspiring Record Attempt Or Too Good To Be True?

Guest Column LRC Co-Founder Of Trans American Foot Race Has Doubts About Current Trans-Canada Record Attempt Jesse Dale Riley, who served on the crew for Al Howie when he set the Trans-Canada record in 1991, has some doubts about Dave Proctor‘s record attempt which is ongoing.
*MB: Cross-Canada record attempt, 7200K – 66 days. Current record by Al Howie 72 days

Big Semenya News

Researchers: Study Used For New Hyperandrogenism Rules Had Flawed Data In It The IAAF has issued an update to its study as it admits the original study had 220 errors in it. However, the NY Times headline of “Did Flawed Data Lead Track Astray on Testosterone in Women?” is misleading as the researchers who found the flawed data believe if it had been accurate it might have been more convincing against Caster Semenya.

Interesting Reads

Recommended Read: Catching Up With 1972 NCAA 10k Champ Johnny Halberstadt The South African now lives in Boulder, CO and the article recalls how the eventual 2:11 marathoner made waves by turning down “a prized Springbok blazer in protest against the treatment of a black athlete.”
304-Pound Man Who Loved The 1980s Marathoners As A Kid Picks Up Running And Loses 130 Pounds
Newton Running Co-Founder Danny Abshire Launches New Lightweight Shoe Brand With Colorado Flag Logo He’s starting with very small batches – like 500 pairs per batch.
Q&A With James Templeton, Who Has Represented 4 Of The 37 Men In History Who Have Broken 1:43 – And He Thinks The Two Aussies Bol And Deng Might Join The List As Well
7-Time New Zealand National Champ & Olympian Angie Petty Shares Her Key Workouts The 1:59 runner shares her favorites.

Interesting Reads

Did The 2004 Wisconsin XC Dream Team Choke? Chris Solinsky Says He “Kind Of” Did
Athletics Illustrated: How Good Can Ben Flanagan Be Considering He Won NCAAs Despite Cross Training For Nearly 2 Months This Year He had a foot issue that kept him from running for much of January and then again for 4 weeks around indoor conference time.
Sarah Barker Takes A Lengthy Look At How Gwen Jorgensen Went From Swimming To Running To Accountant To Triathlon To Running “I need to be confronted with the world standard on a daily basis. Yes, I am comparing myself with Mary Keitany.”
Billie Jean King And Several Olympic Stars Demand Track And Field Officials Rescind Testosterone Rule
South African Journalist Thinks The Sport May Be Better Off Without Bolt “I would argue that the Bolt era was somewhat damaging to the sport as too much of the marketing of the sport relied on the iconic Jamaica … The men’s sprint events are no longer a question of who will finish second behind Bolt.”
Runner That Was Coached By The Great László Tábori Writes A Glowing Tribute To The Former 1,500 WR Holder – “More Than A Coach” “He gave us all a chance. He considered himself once an underdog. All he expected of us was hard work. He was always ‘there for us.'”
Mary Cain To Race A 3,000 In Ireland On Monday, July 16th

Previous World Jr Results

Day 1 PM: MB: Kenya’s Rhonex Kipruto breaks CR to win 10,000 gold in 27:22 The man who earlier this year destroyed the Central Park and US All-Comers road 10k mark has lived up to his favorite status and won World Jr. 10,000 gold.
*Beatrice Chebet Of Kenya Wins Women’s 5,000 In Sprint Finish In 15:30.87 As Ethiopia Grabs Silver And Bronze

IAAF Recaps: Full Recap Of Day 1 At World Juniors *Women’s 5,000m Recap *Men’s 10,000m Recap
Photo by Charlie Crowhurst. © Getty Images for IAAF *Expected Shot Put Duel Between South Africa’s Kyle Blignaut And US’s Adrian Piperi Lives Up To The Hype Blignaut won by 1 centimeter as Piperi set a new US U20 record of 72-4.50 (22.06m).

Day 1 AM: Mouthwatering 1,500 Final For WU20s Is Set – Ingebrigtsen, Tefera And Soget All Win A 1,500 Heat American Cooper Teare also made final.
*George Manangoi Reveals After 1,500 Heat That He’s Recovering From Malaria But Still Thinks He Can Win Gold He said he didn’t feel good today.
*Jamaica’s Michael Stephens Runs 10.30 PR To Lead 100m Qualifiers

Recommended Read Legally Blind Jaryd Clifford Of Australia Finishes 8th In 1,500 Heat – Just Misses Final – Thanks To A Helping Hand From A Kiwi Clifford can only see directly in front of himself so he made friends with a Kiwi, who let him run strides just behind him, and then Clifford tracked him in the race.

A Slow Weekend In Terms Of Pro Action

MB: Ben Bruce tries out for Worlds at USA Mountain Champs – Ends up eating a slice of “humble pie.” J. Gray and A. McLaughlin win
Utica Boilermaker Results: Gabriel Geay, Mary Wacera Win, John Crain & Allie Kieffer 1st Americans Wacera is now tied with Catherine Ndereba with most Boilermaker wins (4).
Recap Of French Champs: Renaud Lavillenie Wins 8th Pole Vault Title Mahiedine Mekhissi won the steeple but world champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse lost the 800 … to a guest Kenyan. Carolle Zahi completed the 100/200 double in 11.01 (1.5m/s) and 22.92 (3.6 m/s) as Jimmy Vicaut pulled out with an injury scare after running just 10.35 in the semis.
Nigerian Champs Are Halted After Athletes Stage Protest Demanding Administrator Resign
Full Results For The IAAF World Challenge Event In Brazil – The 2018 Grande Premio Brasil de Atletismo Bralon Taplin won the 400 in 44.67 as Brazil’s Andressa de Morais set a new South American record in the discus of 65.10m. *IAAF Recap
*American Curtis Jensen Surpasses 70 Feet In Shot With Massive 1 foot+ PR In Brazile His mark of 70 feet, 11.75 inches (21.63m) is #5 in the world this year but not even in the top 20 all time in the US due to steroids.
Kilian Jornet Breaks A Long-Standing 42-Peak Climbing Record On The English Fells

European Athletics U18 Championships Entries / Seeds Results *Schedule

Free European U18 Live Stream
16-Year-Old Max Burgin Runs European Age 16 Record Of 1:47.36 To Win Euro U18 Gold We’re wondering if anyone knows what the US age 16 record is. If you do, post it here.
Ireland’s Sarah Healy Lives Up To Hype And Wins Double European U18 Golds In 3k & 1,500 – Both In Championship Records Healy has PRs of 2:02, 4:09 and 9:10.
European U18s – A Golden Night For Great Britain With Four Titles, Including Keely Hodgkinson’s 2:04 800 Win Sonia O’Sullivan‘s daughter Sophie was a well-beaten 2nd, which she was very happy with. *Race Video
Watch: Heartwarming Moment As Proud Sonia O’Sullivan Reacts To Daughter Sophie’s Fantastic Silver
Scotland’s Kane Elliott Wins European Junior 1,500 In Championship Record Elliott, 16, has already run 3:46 this year.
Ireland’s Sarah Healy ((2:02, 4:09, 9:10 PRs) Lives Up To The Hype And Wins European U18 Gold In 9:18 CR She’s the first Irish athlete to ever win U18 European gold. She’s hoping for double gold as she’s also in the 1500 final.
Athletics Weekly Recap Of Day 2 Of Euro U18 Champs
17-Year-Old Thomas Keen (8:14 PR) Wins Britain’s 1st Gold At European U18s In 8:27 Video of sub-60 last lap here.
Sophie O’Sullivan – Sonia’s 16-Year-Old Daughter – Begins International Career With A Heat Win At European U18s Race video is here.

World U20 Champs Are Next Week In Finland

Event-By-Event Preview For IAAF World U20 Championships
LRC Television and Streaming Information for IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere
10 Stars To Watch At World U20s From Barega to Duplantis to Sammy Watson, the IAAF has you covered.

Morton Games *Results

More Mid-Week Action

Sandra Perkovic Extends Her Winning Streak To 13 With 68.92m In Switzerland Distance results were highlighted by meet records of 1:44.38 from Jonathan Kitilit in the 800 and 14:36.13 by Agnes Tirop in the 5000m. In other action, Morocco’s Soufyan Bouqantar won the 3000m in 7:42.24 ahead of Ethiopia’s Telahun Bekele (7:42.81), USA’s Michael Rodgers ran two sub-10 second 100m races with 9.94 in the heats and 9.92 to win the final, and world indoor 60m bronze medalist Mujinjga Kambundji ran 11.13 to beat out Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce by .02.
Asafa Powell returns with 1st race since February, only runs 10.44 in his quest for 100 sub-10s He’s stuck at 97.
New Zealand’s Olympic Bronze Medalist Eliza McCartney Jumps 4.94 World Lead Pole Vault In Germany This added 2cm to her own Oceanian record as she beat a field that included Jenn Suhr. Armand Duplantis won the men’s competition in 5.80m.
Former European Indoor 60H Champ Eline Berings Runs 12.72 To Win The 100H In Liege She just missed breaking the Belgian record by .01.

Our Weekly Recap – The Week That Was

LRC Is It Good To Be A Young Phenom At World Juniors? Mexican And Indian 800 Records Fall, Bernard Lagat Still Has It, And Athletics World Cup Two Jamaican-Americans put on a show at World Juniors, Michael Norman joined a select club, Bernard Lagat still has it, and more.

Mary Cain Races *Results

LRC Mary Cain Winds Up A DNF In Her First Track Race In 2 Years Mary Cain‘s return to the track after a 2-year hiatus did not go well. Kiwi Camille Buscomb got the win in 8:45 as Elinor Purrier also set a PR for second. Other results included Sam Prakel winning the mile in 3:56.09 (Ben True was 6th in 3:57.83), Puerto Rico’s Ryan Sanchez beating Eric Sowinski over 800m (1:45.73 to 1:46.09), a 2:02.45 win from Laura Roesler in the 800 and Aussie Brett Robinson winning the 3,000 in 7:59.65 over Jordy Williamsz.

Pre-Race LRCWatch Mary Cain’s Return To Racing Over 3,000m In Ireland Today At 3:05 PM ET*Discuss

US Distance News

Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With Shalane Flanagan Flanagan talks about the weather challenges at Boston 2018 and her new cookbook.
RunBlogRun Interview With Sean McGorty About Going Pro After His Big 3:36 PR In The 1,500 This Weekend McGorty says for now he’s continuing to be coached by his Stanford’s Chris Miltenberg and “is in the process” of deciding a training group to join.
Swiss Running Brand On To Sponsor Mammoth Track Club
If You Missed This:MB:Matthew Centrowitz named as volunteer assistant coach at UW

And Oregon’s New Coach Is …

LRCThe University Of Oregon Names Ben Thomas – Formerly Of Virginia Tech – As Its New Distance Coach Additionally, Pete Watson (formerly of UVA) will be moving to coach the men’s distance runners at Texas.
*MB:2018 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion
*Register-Guard Article

Other Weekend Action

World U20 Champs Saturday Action

12:55 Man And Pre Classic And Stockholm Winner Selemon Barega Fails To Medal In 5,000 At World Juniors! The terrible meet for the Ethiopian men continued as their 2nd heavy favorite failed to medal. They have won one men’s medal – 10k bronze – so far.
Saturday Full Recap: Briana Williams Completes 100/200 Double, Duplantis And Diaz Set Championship Records In PV And TJ
USATF: Men’s 4 X 100 Strike Gold For Team USA On Six-Medal Day At World U20s
Coach Ato Boldon Praises Briana Williams’ Historic Feat Williams ran a PR of 22.50 to get the win.
Briana Williams Says She Was Inspired By VCB’s Sprint Double In 2000, Now She Wants To Become Youngest Olympic Medalist In 2020
Duplantis Gets 5.82 CR But Fails 3 Times At 6.01
Ireland Women – Yes, Ireland – Win 4 X 100 Silver
Team USA Finally Wins Its First Gold Medal In Men’s 4 X 100
DyeStat Saturday Recap

Previous World Cup News

South African Journalist: An Athletics World Cup Lacking In Star Quality
AFP: Athletics World Cup Set For London Lift-Off
Are Some Shoe Companies Preventing People From Competing In The Athletics World Cup?
No Funding And Four Jobs – How Beth Dobbin Beat The Professionals To Become British 200m Champion She’ll be running the 200 for Britain at the Athletics World Cup.
2018 London Diary: An Introduction To The Athletics World Cup The meet features 1 athlete in each event from 8 different countries – USA, GB & NI, Poland, China, Germany, France, Jamaica and South Africa. There also are female team captains to celebrate 100 years of women voting in GB.
BBC: What Is The World Cup?
Female Team Captains Are Ready To Go For Athletics World Cup Glory Queen Harrison is the US captain, Lorraine Ugen leads GBR.
A Look Back At The Original Athletics World Cup Of 1977

The US Has Lost A Legend

Recommended Read: Lindy Remigino, The 1952 Olympic 100 Champ, Dies At Age 87 Frank Litsky pays tribute with a great obituary to the man, who wasn’t the US champ or even the best sprinter on his Manhattan College track team but won Olympic 100 gold. Remigno went on to win 31 CT state titles as a high school coach in Hartford.
*Also Great: Hartford Courant: Lindy Remigino, Won 2 Olympic Gold Medals, Hartford Icon, Dies At 87

More Sprint News: Ato Boldon Is “Feeling Vindicated” After Briana Williams U20 Win At Age 16 “I’m feeling very vindicated personally because I took a lot of shots this year from a lot of people as a young coach.”
MB: Can someone tell me why the US born and raised Briana Williams competes for Jamaica? Might she switch to USA?
At 16 Years, 113 Days Old, Briana Williams Is The Youngest U20 100 Champ Ever
Indonesian Sprinter Who Won Men’s U20 Gold Often Trained Barefoot Last Year As He Could Barely Afford Shoes He begged his sister for $27 for a pair last year.

Wednesday’s Pro Results / News Of Note

2018 Barcelona Results: American Isaiah Harris Picked Up His First Pro Win In 1:46.11 Lots of Americans were in the 1,500 as Prakel/Gregorek/Engels ran 3:37 and Drew Hunter 3:38. In the women’s 1,500, Ciara Mageean won in 4:04.13 with Marta Freitas second in a 4:04.54 PR with Americans Sara Vaughn 4th (4:05.88 SB) and Cory McGee 5th (4:06.28 PR).
2018 Lignano Results: Elinor Purrier PRs Again (4:07.79) As Neil Gourley Runs Massive 3+ Second PR Of 3:36.54 The other big news was Emmanuel Korir remained undefeated on the year thanks to his 44.52 meet record in the 400.
World Half Bronze Medalist Pauline Kamulu Laps Entire Filed, Runs 30:41.85 World Lead In Japan The South Korean women’s record also fell in the race as Seul Ki Ahn ran 32:33.61.
Interesting Read To Say The Least: Tianna Bartoletta Goes On An Epic Rant On Her Blog About Feeling Underappreciated And Undercompensated Along the way, she wonders if the huge money people like Sydney M will be getting will result in them having short careers. We don’t think so.
CU’s Erin Clark, Utah’s Grayson Murphy And UNM’s Alice Wright Join HOKA ONE ONE NAZ Elite Colorado’s Erin Clark, Utah’s Grayson Murphy and New Mexico’s Alice Wright are all headed to Flagstaff.
Updated Hayward Field Design IS Released (Pics) The North end is now at the street level to prevent the wind from swirling. Plus the tower has been moved.
Track And Field News Examines What Makes Keturah Orji So Good – Talent And The Fact That She’s A Student Of The Sport
First-Ever TCS New York City Marathon – Virtual 26.2M And 5K Launches As Part Of New York Road Runners Virtual Racing Series For $100, you get the right to run a fake NYC Marathon (and get entry into the 2019 race).

Jump News

Monday’s Results From Lucerne

Murphy Wins 800 In Lucerne In 1:46.41
Marielle Hall Dominated 3k In Lucerne – Wins In 9:20
Kate Grace And Kaela Edwards Both Run 2:01.18 In 800m Natoya Goule won in 2:00.32.
Thomas Barr Wins 400H In Lucerne In 49.10
Brianna McNeal Wins 100H In Lucerne In 12.44 Mike Rodgers prevailed over Jamaica’s Yohan Blake in the 100 with 10.08 to 10.12.

Links That Caught Our Eye

Leo Manzano Ends Track Season Early …. He’s Headed To Spanish Version Of Survivor He’ll be off the grid until September!!
Former Lehigh Runner Tyler Mueller Shares Some Insight On Tinman’s Training “He embraces the fact that coaching is just as much about psychology – convincing an athlete that their training is the best training is more important than the training actually being the best.”
*MB: True or False: Convincing an athlete that their training is the best is more important than the training actually being the best
51-Year-Old Female Cattle Farmer Sets 116-Mile Endurance Record In The UK She’s the first ever to complete the “double Ramsay.” It took her nearly 56 hours.
WSJ Story That Talks About How Hard It Is For Pro Athletes To Save For Retirement Focuses On Ben And Sarah True The Trues have started a coffee business with Desi Linden and her husband. Linden and True Coffee.
Andre De Grasse’s Season Has Been Cut Short For A Second Consecutive Year By A Hamstring Injury It’s just a grade 1 injury but he’s calling it a season and will spend time with his newborn daughter.
Chloe Cunliffe – Hannah’s Younger Sis – Breaks Washington State Record With 14-Foot Vault

Women In The News

Cathal Dennehy Takes A Closer Look At Ireland’s Newest Distance Prodigy – Sarah Healy She runs between 30 and 50 mpw and isn’t planning on coming to college in the US.
Sonia O’Sullivan Is Proud Of Her Daughter’s Silver Medal At Euros Coaches who have parents that are pains in the butt should read this article and hand it to the parents. O’Sullivan only gives out positive advice. “I told her tonight, ‘Everybody’s ranked number eight right now and every person you’re ahead of is a bonus.'”
DyeStat.com: Thanks To Her Recent 1:59 800 PR, Kaela Edwards Is Ready To Reach The Next Level In Europe Edwards has gotten some last minute invites to some big DL meets and is hoping to make the most of it.
Kenyan Woman Will Not Be Competing At World Juniors Because Her Passport Said She Is A Man

LRC Content For The Weekend

LRC A More Mature Mary Cain Prepares To Return To Track Racing After 2 Years Away – 5 Takeaways From Cain’s Recent Podcast Appearance Next Sunday will mark two years since Mary Cain’s last track race. Find out what’s changed with Cain here.

LRC Why Sam Chelanga Retired From Running At Age 33 To Enlist In The U.S. Army You may have heard the story of pro runners joining the US Army so they can get US citizenship. What you haven’t heard is this story – Sam Chelanga‘s story – a pro runner giving up his running career so he can go the US Army’s Officer Candidate School.
*MB: Sam Chelanga retires

Vin Lananna Resigns From TrackTown USA

Reuters: Vin Lananna Resigns As President Of TrackTown USA And Chair Of Eugene 2021 Worlds Organizing Committee Lananna denies that this is related to the DOJ investigation into the Eugene 2021 bid. Lananna was put on temporary leave as USATF president by the USATF board while the investigation is ongoing.
Register-Guard:“Vin Lananna Steps Down From TrackTown USA” “I can’t do that and everything else. I already feel like I’m spreading myself too thin and felt like I needed to get focused on a particular mission, something I’m passionate about.”
Ken Goe Reports That Vin Lananna “Felt He Had Spread Himself Too Thin” And Was Concerned About His “Effectiveness And His Health” Goe also says Lananna will maintain his position as UO associate athletic director.
MB: Lananna resigns as TrackTown President, Eugene

The IAAF Is Not Discriminating Against Women

IAAF Responds To Open Letter From The Women’s Sports Foundation And Athlete Ally As they say in their statement, “The IAAF has been one of the foremost advocates for women’s sport for almost a century.” There are few sports out there that have as much sex equality as track and field.
*From Last Week: Women’s Sports Foundation And Athlete Ally’s Open Letter The most notable track athlete to sign the letter was Suzy Favor Hamilton. T&F women won’t speak out publicly due to fear of backlash, but we’re sure most support the IAAF’s new regulations.
*IAAF Hammering In Their Point:“IAAF Supports Push For Gender Equity In Leadership Positions”

Upcoming Action

October 7: Olympian Amy Cragg And 2015 U.S. Cross-Country Champion Laura Thweatt Join 2018 Bank Of America Chicago Marathon American Women’s Elite Field With Cragg, Thweatt and Jordan Hasay, organizers say this is the deepest American women’s field in Chicago history.
July 20: BBTM Prediction Contest For The Liberty Mile Top athletes competing include Ben Blankenship, Will Leer, Amanda Eccleston and Shannon Osika.
July 26:Liberty Bridge Jump-Off Will Feature Olympic Silver Medalist Sandi Morris
August 4:Molly Huddle And Ben True Lead Fields For 2018 TD Beach To Beacon 10K Both fields are very deep as sthe men’s side has Jake Robertson, Stanley Biwott, Stephen Sambu, Chris Derrick, Callum Hawkins, Shadrack Biwott, Lopez Lomong and more. The women are lead by 65:07 half-marathoner Caroline Kipkirui, NYC Half champ Buze Dirba, Emily Sisson and Gwen Jorgensen.
August 25:Ed Murphey Memphis Mile Added To The Bring Back The Mile Grand Prix Tour Last year’s inaugural event was won by Craig Engels in 3:58.35.
August 7: More Than 250,000 Tickets Sold For Next Month’s European Championships In Berlin

**The 1st Athletics World Cup Results TV & Streaming**

MB:Official 2018 Athletics World Cup Discussion Thread

Dominant USA Wins Athletics World Cup With Victories In 6 Of The 17 Events They won easily with a 57-point margin over Poland. Team USA’s victory came in part thanks to some dominant running over 1 lap as they took the men’s 400m, 400H and 4 x 400. Paul Dedewo won the 400 (44.48) two days after running in Rabat.
MB: Raevyn Rogers Wins 800 Gold In 2:00.20 Rogers won by almost a full second as GB’s Adelle Tracey (2:01.05) was 2nd.
Sam Kendricks Enjoys Double Success In Hectic 48 Hours Kendricks won the PV with 5.83m just 48 hours after he won at the Rabat DL. Random side note: he used new poles which he says “take time to get used to like swinging new golf clubs.”
Vashti Cunningham Wins High Jump Battle Over Home Crowd Favorite Morgan Lake With Season Best Of 1.96m
BBC:Great Britain Third In Inaugural Staging Of Athletics World Cup GB got just one win on day 2 in the women’s 4×100 relay as they held off Jamaica. In his comeback from injury, former world champ Dai Greene was 3rd in the 400H, won by US’s Kenny Selmon (48.97).
The Guardian‘s Sean Ingle:“Athletics Needs Boost In Post-Bolt Era, But Was World Cup The Answer?” Ingle writes, “Right now athletics feels like a sport fumbling uncertainty in the dark, trying to find a way to make the public care in the post-Bolt world.”
Reuters:Seb Coe Says Athletics World Cup Is Here To Stay Coe says they’ve already had interest from other cities to host future editions of the event.

Are We Headed Towards An Age Of Shoe Doping?

Outside Magazine Asks An Interesting Question: Is It Fair For Runners To Compete In Prototypes? A recent IAAF rule change states “any type of shoe used [in competition] must be reasonably available to all in the spirit of the universality of athletics.” However, it doesn’t seem that they have any plans to ban the use of prototypes in races – something that athletes like Eliud Kipchoge and Galen Rupp have done recently with the Nike 4%.

2018 Rabat DL Full Results TV & Streaming

LRC Rabat Recap And Video Highlights: Obiri Wins The Deepest 5k In History, Kejelcha Dominates 3K, Lasitskene Is Finally Beaten And Americans Centro And Chelimo Go Home Empty-Handed The women’s 5k is at another level (5 women at the bell in 13:19), two American stars (Chelimo and Centro) still don’t have DL wins, and Lasitskene’s win streak came to an end. Plus the 100 lived up to the hype:

LRC Christian Coleman Is BACK, Defeats Noah Lyles, Ronnie Baker And Mike Rodgers As 100 Showdown Delivers .01 separated the top 3.
*NOP’s Sifan Hassan Runs European 5,000 Record Of 14.22.34 For 2nd
*Q&A With Lance Brauman About Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Who Remained Undefeated In 2018 After 200m Win
*Akeem Bloomfield Delighted With 400 Win In DL And Pro Debut

Non-Rabat Action Mujinga Kambundji Clocks 10.95 Swiss National Record For 100m On Day 1 Of Swiss Champs

Friday At World Juniors

Full Friday Recap:GBR Wins 3 Golds, Jamaica’s Christopher Taylor Shocked In 400 Final The much-hyped Taylor (10.11, 20.35, 44.88) didn’t win the 400 as Belgium’s Jonathan Sacoor ran him down to win in 45.03.
Kenya’s Celliphine Chepteek Chespol Dominated U20 Steeple As Expected She won in 9:12 and it took 9:23 to win a medal.
Even Though He Was The Huge Favorite For Gold, Christopher Taylor Happy With Silver Medal In 400
The Story Behind Lalu Muhammad Zohri’s Historic 100m Gold Keeps Getting More And More Inspiring If having to train barefoot because he couldn’t afford shoes wasn’t inspiring enough, how about being an orphan?
Mondo Duplantis’ Year-By-Year PR Progression, From 5-6 At Age 6 To 19-5½ At Age 18
More Jr. Action: Recap Of “Field Finals Friday” At English Schools Champs

Previous World Juniors News

Thursday: LRC George Manang’oi Wins Thrilling Men’s 1,500 At 2018 World U20 Championships As World Indoor Champ Samuel Tefera Fails To Medal (5th) This one lived up to the hype. The talent at the U20 level is so incredible the reigning World indoor gold medalist at the professional level failed to medal.
*MB: The men’s 1500 final at the U20 Champs lived up to the hype!! Manangoi 1, Ingebrigtsen 2. Tefera – no medal!!

Full IAAF Day 3 Recap: Men’s 1,500 And 110H Finals, Women’s 800 And 400
Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji Wins 800 In First Sub-2:00 Performance Ever At World U20s A day after going out in a crazy 56.71, Weltelji went out more sensibly in 58.98 and ended up running 1:59.74.
India’s Hima Das Wins 400 To Become 1st Indian Track Gold Medalist Ever – Male Or Female, Senior Or Junior
Jamaican Briana Williams – Ato Boldon-Coached Athlete – Pulls Off Upset To Win Women’s 100 In 11.16 USC’s Twanisha Terry ran a Championships record of 11.03 in the semis but could only manage a 11.19 in the final.

Wednesday Was A Crazy Day Full Of Upsets At World Juniors

Day 2 PM: LRC Japan’s Nozomi Tanaka Wins Historic Women’s 3,000 Gold At IAAF U20 Championships Tanaka and countrywoman Yuna Wada broke away from the field early and Tanaka held on to become just the second non-African winner of this event in the last 20 years.
MB: Reigning World Jr and NCAA 800 champ Sammy Watson + US HS 800 star Caitlin Collier (2:00.85 PR) fail to make World Jr final It was a tough day for the two American teen stars.
3,000 Win Wasn’t Only Shocker For Japan; Yuki Hashioka Also Won The Men’s Long Jump (8.03m)
Lalu Muhammad Zohri Of Indonesia – Yes, Indonesia – Wins Men’s 100 Out Of Lane 8 In 10.18 As US Takes Silver And Bronze
This Wasn’t An Upset Australia’s Ashley Moloney Wins Decathlon With Championship Record Of 8,190 & Biggest Winning Margin In World U20 Championships History Gold and silver went to the Aussies.

LRC 6 Reasons To Watch The IAAF World U20 Championships (AKA World Juniors) If rooting for the American 5k runner who has gone from college dropout to forklift operator to World Juniors all in the last year isn’t enough, we don’t know what is, but we’ve got 5 other great reasons to pay attention.