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• Dwain Chambers Wins 100m Euros silver medallist Mark Lewis-Francis was DQ'd for false start and will hope for discretionary spot.
  
• Ethiopia's Former World XC Champ Werknesh Kidane Wins 10k In 31:08 She won the race by more than 2:30. The only UKer in the race, Sonia Samuels ran 33:50.72, and NZ's Kim Smith dropped out mid-race.
  
• Jessica Ennis Competes In 5 Events At UK Trials And Wins HJ Asked about the return of LaShawn Merritt, Euro 400m bronze medallist Martyn Rooney said: "I always stood up for him and said he was clean. When he failed a drugs test he made me look like an idiot." Rooney is very outspoken against dopers as he said he rather lose to Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius than someone who has failed a drug test. Although he did say Pistorius looked like a "fat git" four years ago, but looks leaner now.
• Olympic 400m Champ Christine Ohuruogu Is 3rd And Will Rely On "Discretionary" Spot Not a great race for her as she lost to a 400m hurdle runner Perri Shakes-Drayton and "Plastic Brit" Shana Cox.
• Beijing Bronze Medallist Germaine Mason Is A Last Minute Entry To HJ It will be his first meet in 2 years as he's coming back from an ankle injury.
• Discus Thrower Lawrence Okoye Predicted To Win Gold In 2012 He says: "I never think you can't do something. I've got that kind of delusional mentality, you think you can do everything, you think you're special. I heard Will Smith say that all successful people are slightly delusional. You've got to believe you can do things that maybe you can't do."
• UK's Top Ranked 400m Runner Michael Bingham Fails To Make Final

JumpRunThrow.com Interviews Charles Jock Asked why he goes out in that crazy 49 second first lap, he says " I'm driven to do this because I don’t want to have regrets if I lose, I want to know that I ran to the best of my ability and they were just better than me that day. There’s probably nothing worse than losing in a slow race."

Upcoming Action *Bogota LIVE Webcast 10:15am EDT Sunday

*Deriba Merga Vs Geoffrey Mutai In Sunday’s Bogotá Half-Marathon Merga is defending champ as he won last year in 1:02:31. Field also includes Rotterdam Marathon champ Wilson Chebet and USA half marathon champ Mo Trafeh.
*Ryan Hall Racing Sept. 4th Virginia Beach Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon As Tune Up For Chicago
*Now That Blade Runner Has The "A" Standard He's Looking For Consistency He'll race again Saturday at Istvan Gyulai Memorial meet in Budapest.

UK Trials Day 1 *Full Results

• James Walsh Wins 10k National Title, But Finishes 6th In The Race As Mexico’s Juan Luis Barrios Won In 27:38
  *Tetsuya Yoroizaka Breaks Japan University 10k Record In 27:44 Running In UK Trials
• Recap Of Day 1: Mark Lewis-Francis Posts Fastest 100m Semi-Final Qualifying Time With 10.30 Mostly just trials on first day. UK uses similar qualifying system as Kenya as the top 2 finishers get an automatic bid to World Champs and the 3rd spot is "discretionary".
• France Trials: Christophe Lemaître Lowers His National 100 Record To 9.92 This is with a just barely legal 2m/sec tailwind.

Other UK News:

• The Telegraph Says Mo Farah Is Not Getting Attention He Deserves Compared To Top UK Athletes In Other Sports Well that's track for you, but at this point you can be sure that just about everyone in the running world knows him and come World Champs will definitely be paying attention.
• Dwain Chambers Tries To Ignore All The Olympic Talk Because As Of Now He Can't Go Due To His Past Doping Violation
• Profile Of UK's Jessica Ennis And Her Coach Who Has Been With Her For 14 Years Since She Was 11 Article likens Coach Toni Minichiello to actor Al Pacino.
  
• UK Writer Says Britons Need To Stop "Whining" About The Olympics And Appreciate It
• UK's Christine Ohuruogu: "Once The Face of the Games, Now Yesterday’s Woman"
• Time Is Running Out For UK's 1500m Runner Charlene Thomas To Get "A" Standard

French Athletes Trained To Fight With Their Heads? The Monaco 1500 incident was "eerily reminiscent" of when French midfielder Zinedine Zidane head butted Italy's Marco Materazzi at the World Cup final.

David Monti Takes A Look At Morgan Uceny's Rise To The Top Of The 1,500 Ranks The daughter of a bricklayer and bus driver knows a thing or two about hard work. She gives a lot of credit to her training partner Anna Pierce for her rise, as well as her coach.

Ryan Hall Teleconference Highlights
Ryan Hall Sees BOA Chicago Marathon To Olympic Trials 14-Week Gap As Ideal  Hall also sounds like he's tired of being the rabbit: "In Boston I functioned as the pacemaker."
*Brief Chat With Ryan Hall

Rojo Gets Props In A Brief Chat With Sage Canaday What other college coach would let his athlete run a marathon in college and run the Trials the week before he qualified for NCAAs in cross? Canaday has now gone on to 2:16:52 and to write a book Running With The Hansons.

News From Europe

• Disciplinary Hearing For Mehdi Baala And Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad To Take Place On August 4
• Good Idea: 700+ European Jrs. Go To Anti-Doping Program Where A Lottery Was Held To Send Them To European Champs Last Year People need to be taught at an early age that winning at all costs is not what sports is about. Winning fairly is.
• Finland: Former Oregon Runner Zoe Buckman Wins In Europe In 4:06.06 - Just .06 From "B" Standard That's a big 2.51 PR. Craig Miller was 2nd in the men's 1,500 in 3:40.09. *Finland Results

World Champs Are 30 Days Away

• Koreans Start 30-Day Countdown To Worlds The article claims that at the last World Championships, there were 8 billion television viewers. We don't believe it. There are only 6.75 billion people on the earth.
• 132 Food Inspectors To Be On Hand In Daegu To Make Sure Food Isn't Tainted Apparently food poisoning is common in the summer in parts of Asia. Last week, a Chinese court sentenced people for selling pork tainted with a poisonous chemical.

Ryan To Run Chicago

Ryan Hall To Run Chicago Philip Hersh of the Chicago Tribune has broken the news that Hall will run this year's Bank of America Chicago Marathon and take on Boston runner-up Moses Mosop. Three months later, Ryan will run the Olympic Marathon Trials. The appearance fee of Ryan is so high that the Chicago/Trials double makes a lot of cents sense.
*Lornah Kiplagat To Run Amsterdam Marathon In October

Worlds Are Coming Soon ... And LRC Will Be There

• US 5,000 Champ Molly Huddle Hasn't Run In A Month Due To Plantar Fasciitis- Will Still Try To Run Worlds
• Ethiopia Releases Provisional Daegu Worlds Team Rupp's medal chances seem to be going up by the minute, as this article makes it sound like Bekele is still struggling. 5,000m - Men: Dejen Gebremeskel, Tariku Bekele, Abera Kuma, Yenew Alamirew. Women: Meseret Defar, Sentayehu Ejigu, Genzebe Dibaba. 10,000m - Men: Imane Merga, Sileshi Sihine, Ibrahim Jeilan (and Kenenisa Bekele, if he's ready). Women: Meselech Melkamu, Belaynesh Oljira, Tigist Kiros.
• Russia's World Championships Team Is Announced Two marathoners with the same name, Aleksey Sokolov, will race.
• Philips Idowu Says He Doesn't Even Know Where His Medals Are, But That's Okay Because He Knows He'll Win More

Not Your Normal Boring Reads

• Alberto Probably Is Calling BMW On Thursday
  Bryan Clay & Sanya Richards-Ross But Not Galen Rupp To Be Helped By BMW's Tech Gadgets BMW will help 10 athletes that are part of its BMW's Performance Team by using "the stereo-vision technology that the company tests in its automobile safety systems" on athletes.
• Recommended Read US 100m Hurdles Champ Kellie Wells Is Not Afraid To Admit She Was Sexually Abused As A Child - Wants To Help Others Sexually abused for a long time before being raped as a 16-year-old by her stepfather, Wells is adamant about not hiding her past, as too many people sweep similar stories under the rug and the abuse conditions. She's hopes her track success allows her to form a foundation to help abused families. "People don't listen to the girl in fifth or sixth place who is not making teams. They listen to the person who is successful, and if I'm successful it means I can share my story with girls and boys and women who will look up to me. Your past doesn't have to dictate your future, and that's an important thing I want to stress to people. Just because something bad happened to you, that doesn't mean that is who you are."
• AJ May Be Leaving Oregon, But At Least He's Being Replaced By A Kid With Personality
  Lukas V Talks About His Dream Date & Much, Much More "Anything would be perfect with the girl of my dreams but if I had to choose I would make her a really nice dinner, then we would go out to a concert (either John Mayer or Dave Matthews Band) that's at a beautiful park where afterwards we would walk around in the dark holding hands while eating ice cream. Once we have nothing more to say to each other we would just gaze at the stars and end up kissing. We would have to be in the moment to know where things go on from there ..."
• Today's Sign Of The Apocalypse: Kenyan Paper Profiles Racewalker
• WSJ Feature Says British Track & Field Team Is Terrible Meanwhile, the people at Athletics Weekly, whose job it is to cover the sport for a living, are saying Britain is currently enjoying a second "golden era."'
• Meet The Mother & Daughter Sprint Combo Of Irina And Olga Lenskiy Both are at the top of their events in Israel at the same time. Mom at age 40, though, was able to beat her daughter at her specialty of 100m by the slimmest of margins - .01.

Geoffrey Mutai Wins In Castelbuono He ran 29:05 to finish over a minute ahead of NYC Marathon champ Gebre Gebremariam in 2nd (30:13) and Mathew Kisorio 3rd (30:14). London Marathon champ Emmanuel Mutai finished sixth in 30:48 and Ryan Hall was supposed to race this, but his blog says he's currently in Switzerland.
*Highlights Video
*Top 10 Results

Upcoming: Gebre Gebremariam Returning To Defend Title At Beach To Beacon 10k Sam Chelanga will also be in the field. US marathon record holder Deena Kastor and twice Olympic silver medallist Catherine Ndereba in women's field.

• World Champs News: Nickson Chepseba Looking To Prove The Team Selectors Wrong After Being Dropped From The Kenyan World Champs Squad Apparently Chepseba only learned he was replaced on the WC 1,500 team by Daniel Komen when he read the news in the media. Article also mentions Chepseba's unusual transition to the 1,500, as he was originally a volleyball player, then a 10k runner, and then moved down to the 15.
• Jake Robertson & Adriean Blincoe Makes New Zealand's World Champs Team In The 5k

NCAA:
*HEPS XC Champs Moved From VCP To Princeton Due to the ongoing construction, Heps will be held at somewhere other than Van Cortlandt Park for just the 3rd time in the 72-year history of the meet.
*NCAA Now Requiring Schools To Monitor Social Media There is a company that will "flag" all rostered athletes' names so that the athletic department can follow them and be notified about what they say.

Post-Monaco Diamond League-Related News

• Chris Solinsky Tweets About DNF & Admits He Should Have Finished Race "Tough Pill to swallow! Should gotten back on to at least get A standard 4 next year, but emotions (angry) took over. Back 2 Amy & training."
• Italian Dinner Parties & Natural Ice Baths Have Contribued To Nick Willis Getting In Medal Shape Willis trains, lives and races smarter than just about everyone.
• Galen Rupp Did Workout After Falling In Monaco
• Nesta Carter Thought He Had Beaten Bolt "I thought I had him. But in the last 20m I messed up right there."
• Prior To Monaco, Bolt Said He Wants Asafa's Start "If I could take one thing from any one athlete, it would be Asafa (Powell's) start. I would be unstoppable that day. If I could start as fast as Asafa can start, it's all over."
• After Getting Kicked In Calf In Paris On July 8th, Kenia Sinclair Resumed Training On July 21 Sinclair had been enjoying a great 2011, as she beat Morgan Uceny in NYC at 1,500 after rocking the SMR at Penn.

Previous Post-Monaco News

• Bernard Lagat Says He Has Mixed Emotions About His Monaco Race, Calls Mo Farah The Clear Favorite For Worlds And Even Compares Him To Kenenisa Bekele "All of us are going over there as the underdog ... I like being in the position where I can say, 'He's the guy and we're going to go after it.' For once, everyone won't be going in hunting Bernard Lagat."
  *Lagat Interview: Talks About Making Sure He Goes For His Drug Test Includes links to other interviews with Nick Symmonds, Morgan Uceny, Mo Farah and others.
• Good Interview With Nick Willis Post-Monaco 1,500 PR Talks about the "burden of his silver medal" and jokes about helping to break up the fist fight "to get on TV."
• French 1,500m Runners Suspended Over Monaco Brawl And Also Lose Their Appearance Fees Could even endanger their chances of competing at the World Championships.
  *Some Better Quotes From The Fighting Frenchman Mekhissi-Benabbad: "I thought it was all a bit of a laugh, I approached him and he gave me a little headbutt, after which I responded. It's normal." Baala's comments were a bit angrier.
• Bolt Says He's Not Worried After Close Call To Nesta Carter In Monaco And maybe he doesn't need to be, as Carter didn't make the Jamaican team for Daegu. Just shows the depth of the Jamaican 100m team.
  *Watch Great Slow Motion Replay Of Bolt Just BARELY Winning
• 400m Winner Amantle Montsho Plays Down Her Status As WCs Favorite She's won 4 straight DL races, but she's right to still be worried as she only has the 2nd fastest time in the year and Allyson Felix still might do the 200/400 double.

International Results

• Hungary GP: Asafa Powell Wins In 9.86 In Windy/Cold Conditions With the consistent times he's putting up it's almost hard to call Bolt the favorite going into Worlds. Oscar Pistorius was last in the 400 in 47.47.
  *Q&A With The Blade Runner
  
• France Champs: Christophe Lemaitre Runs Wind Aided 20.08 To Win 200 Shattered NR of 20.16, but not wind legal.
  *Full Results *IAAF Recap
• Japan's Yuki Kawauchi Tunes Up For WC's By Winning Kushiro Shitsugen 30K Road Race He ran 1:33:55 (5:02/mile pace).
  
• Steve Mullings Wins 100 In 9.93 In Italy He also went on to win the 200 in 20.22
  
• Joel Melly Wins G4S Karura Cross Country Challenge in Karura Forest

Other International News
*Vivian Cheruiyot: 14 minutes Can Be Broken Next Year, 'And It Will Be Me' IAAF
*After All That Talk About A "Strict 'A' Standard Policy" Ireland Is Considering Letting "B" Athletes Go To London Most countries do bring one athlete per event with the "B" standard so no reason why they shouldn't.
*GB Comes Down Harder Than Anyone On Dopers, But Now Make A Hypocritical Move They are "forcing" discus thrower Lawrence Okoye to work under Olympic drugs cheat Vesteinn Hafsteinsson.
*Nick Willis' Medal Chances At World Champs Are Looking Good He's always been good in a tactical race he's comfortable in a fast one too.
*James Evans Elected President Of SA Athletics

Race Director Re-Organizes His Entire 25k/50k Trail Race In One Day When Unexpectedly Loses Venue John Storkamp: “I never considered canceling the event. Trail running and ultrarunning is not for quitters. We would have had it on a track, in a parking lot, or in my backyard if we had no other choice.”

DN Galan Stockholm Diamond League *Results *Photos *Video

LRC Vivian Cheruiyot Sizzles, Shalane Flanagan Misses, Kenia Sinclair Stays Undefeated*,  LaShawn Merritt Returns, Usain Bolt's 20.03 Win Leaves Some Questions, Silas K Wins Again And Much More Stockholm was the second-to-last Diamond League meet before Worlds and last for many athletes competing. Vivian Cheruiyot and Silas Kiplagat stamped their status as favorites at Worlds. Usain Bolt won by nearly half a second and we weren't that impressed. David Oliver was upset, Yelena Isinbayeva came back to form, and an Aussie became the favorites for Worlds in the long jump. The American distance runners disappointed, except for 37-year-old Magdalena Lewy Boulet, who ran a huge 50-second PR of 15:14.25 in the 5,000m.

*IAAF Recap: Vivian Cheruiyot Gets 5k NR And WL With 14:20.87
*Bolt Complains Of Back Pains On Tight Turn In Stockholm Caster Semenya runs 2:01 and says she is disappointed and worried, as she should be.
*Scientists Say Usain Bolt's Key To Success Lies Not With Foot Speed, But Foot Pressure Lets him take 41 steps in a 100m while the normal elite takes about 44.
*Yelena Isinbayeva Backs Up Her Bold Statements With A Win In Stockholm She said before the meet she was "still the best vaulter in the world" and she proved that by beating high class DL field.
*BBC VIdeo Interview With Usain Bolt After 200m Victory
*Mitchell Watt Breaks Australian LJ Record

Stockholm On The Boards:

• Lashawn Merritt makes his come back debut at 44.74
• Another near-miss for Flanagan
• DN Galen 1500
• Vivian Cheruiyot Is Special
• Torrence 3:35.9, Leer 3:36 in B race

Looking Ahead To World Champs

• Kenya's Men's 800m Squad Is The Only "Surviving Trio" From The Kenyan Team That Competed At Berlin In 2009 Their coach stresses that they will practice using teamwork tactics to make sure all three of them make the final.
  
• Kenyan 4x4 Team Looking To Medal In Daegu
• Q&A With Allyson Felix Talking About Her Decision To Do The 200/400 Double Reveals that as of now she will do both relays, but only the finals, she will not run any of the rounds.
• UK's 800m Runner Jenny Meadows Is Going To Have The "Biggest Collection Of Silver And Bronzes" If She Can't Win Gold In Daegu Or London

*USATF Profile On Texas Wide Receiver And US Long Jump Champ Marquise Goodwin He talks about the balance needed to split his focus between football and track and he isn't sure in which one his future lies.
*Khalid Mulazim Breaks Master's World Record In The 400m With 50.18 He says the record will last about a month as he plans on going sub-50.

Athletics Kenya Grows A Brain
Athletics Kenya Now Is Letting World Championship Team Members Race In Europe AK Head: "We have noticed that our athletes have become more professional in how they are competing and are using these races to maintain their form. This is very good for our country and that is why we allowed them to enter these events."

News Coming Out Of Europe

• Mo Farah's Moving Up To The Marathon ... after 2012, he says. "I think 2012 will probably be my last track season, Ill probably move up to the marathon from 2013 onwards."
• Even Though She's Doubling At Worlds, Allyson Felix May Run Just 200m At London Olympics
• Czech Republic's Decathlon WR Holder Roman Sebrle Will Compete At French Champs, Which Start Thursday The 36-year-old needs 8,000 points to qualify for WCs. We say - let him compete regardless.
• We 100% Agree: Michael Stow, the head of science and medicine at UK Anti-Doping, said he does not believe that substances such as cocaine and ecstasy should be treated in the same way as performance-enhancing drugs.

Injuries, Injuries

• Battling Injury Problems, Irish 400m Record Holder (44.77) David Gillick Calls It A Season - Sacks Tyson Gay's Coach Interesting to note that Tyson Gay isn't the only Lance Brauman-coached athlete struggling with injuries. He's going back to his old Irish coach.
• Olympic Medallist At 400H, Tasha Danvers, To Miss Rest Of Season With Injury

Week In Review

LRC Week That Was: American Men's Medal Chances In Daegu With less than a month until Worlds, in our weekly look at the world of track and field we look at the American men's distance medal chances in Daegu. And while our beloved Menjo won't be in Daegu, he is in the news. Plus we've got some football talk from Florida coach Will Muschamp, a Brit celebrating July 4th, and Alberto on old school and new school training.

US News

• Recommended Read Many Elite US Distance Runners Live In Flagstaff Beneath The Poverty Level Trying To Chase Their Dreams
• Q&A With UC Irvine's Charles Jock, Who Is The 3rd Man On The US's World Champs 800 Team
• Interview With Lukas Verzbicas About His Transition From Running Back To The Triathlon
• Athletics Weekly Maps Out Allyson Felix's World Champs Race Schedule With relays, she could face up to 10 races in nine days.
• Marion Jones Leads Top 10 List Of Most "Shocking" Athletes Caught Doping

Professor Attributes Jamaica's Wealth Of Fast Sprinters To A Diet Of "Yam And Bananas"

Russian Vera Sokolova's 20K Racewalking WR Ratified By The IAAF In related news, Guinness World Records ratifies records for largest tonsils removed and most nails filed in 8 hours.

The Olympics Are 1 Year Away *NBC Video

• WP: China, Russia And Many Others Hope To Chip Away At USA's Olympic Dominance
• Seb Coe: London Olympics To Be "Toughest Ever" On Doping
• Illegal Betting, Match Fixing As Dangerous As Doping, Says IOC Chief
• All The Planning In The World Won't Save London Games From UK's Rainy Weather
  
  UK:
• UK "Rolling Out The Red Carpet" For IAAF President Lamine Diack In Lobbying Effort To Host 2017 World Champs Never underestimate the power of kissing up.
• Mo Farah Says That He Will Move Up To The Marathon After 2012
• Study Done On UK Olympians Reveals That You Have A Better Chance Of Winning An Olympic Medal Based On Your First Name Study concludes that your best chance of winning is if your name is John or Katherine because those are the names most common to UK Olympic medallists. This is probably true and it has nothing to do with the fact that those are popular British names.
• UK Coach Van Commenee Says "Nervous Athletes Are Just Not Prepared" And Are "Unprofessional"
  *Are Van Commenee's Coaching Tactics Brilliant Or Bullying? "Elite athletes have the ability to focus on their own business, no matter what sort of noise of people are around - also, no matter what sort of relationship they have with their parents, their fiancée or their head coach. They are focused, in this case, on jumping far. The rest is not relevant."
• At This Rate There May Not Be Any British Athletes At The Opening Ceremony
  *Seb Coe Says Athletes Should Be "Free To Choose" Whether Or Not To Attend

US News

• It's Official: Allyson Felix Doing The 200/400 Double At World Champs She is seeking to make history twice, as no one has ever won the 200/400 double world titles and she is seeking an unprecedented 4th straight title in the 200.
• Video Interview With Ryan Hall: Talks About His Training And Racing Since Boston Says he's enjoying the freedom of being self-coached, as he's on the Europe circuit with Sara and training-wise he's really learned to listen to his body rather than "be a slave to a schedule."
• Carl Lewis Was Part Of "Project 30" Report Group that was formed after a disappointing 2008 Olympics to assess the issues and problems in US track and field so that they could be corrected and help the US hit the goal of 30 medals in 2012. He said a big issue lies with the relays and that "we're talking about 30 medals and we still haven't figured out how to pass the baton."
• Coaches Try To Increase Interest In The Sport By Holding Pole Vault Competition On The Beach Rory Quiller won the men's elite class with 17.6 ft., while Jess Mira won for the women in 11.6 ft. The event was held in Lake George, NY.

Top Weekend Action

Russian Champs: Two Russians Led By Yekaterina Martynova Run 4:01 In 1,500 IAAF Martynova's 4:01.68 was nearly a 3-second PR. Two men ran 3:36 in the 1,500.
*Day 3 Russian Champs Recap World record holder and 2008 Olympic steeple champion Gulnara Galkina-Samitova, who is on the way back after maternity leave, was 4th in 9:32.07.
*Athletics Weekly Of Entire Russian Champs Drug chat Anastasiya Kapachinskaya ran 49.35.

World Military Games: Recap - Kenyans Excel A couple of real Kenyan studs showed up, including Mark Kiptoo, who was 4th at the Kenyan trials in the 5,000, and Lausanne 5k winner Vincent Chepkok. They both ran 13:06.

Barcelona: IAAF Recap: Spain's Kevin López Wins 800 In 1:44.49 As US's Tyler Mulder Gets 3rd In 1:44.83 Stuff many people missed in the results included Zerseney Tadese's 5+ second win in the 5000 in 12:59 as well as Leo Manzano 1:45.52, Lopez Lomong 3:33.59, Russell Brown 3:36.34, and Adrian Blincoe with A standard of 13:18.27. Yesterday, we mentioned Ben Bruce 8:19 Steeple, AJ Acosta 3:38 1,500m B Win, Ohuruogo 51.49, Hannah England 4:01 1,500, Geena Gall 2:01.

Science Of Sport Guys Making News

• Recommended Read: Ross Tucker - Our Friend From The Science Of Sport Blog - Summarizes The Belief That Oscar P Has Huge Advantages www.iol.co.za
• Science Of Sport Guys Get NYTimes Column: "A Doping-Free Tour de France?" Performances have apparently returned to pre-EPO and pre-1989 levels.