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Yesterday In Zagreb *Full Results

Mike Rodgers Wins 100 (9.97) As Justin Gatlin Is 3rd; David Oliver Ties Ryan Wilson With Dayron Robles 3rd In 110H, Dawn Harper Beat Sally Pearson In distance action, Caleb Mwangani won a fast 3000 in 7:35 with Will Leer 7th (7:39), Andrew Bumbalough 8th (7:40), Nick Willis 10th (7:40) David Torrence 11th (7:40) and Andrew Bayer 13th (7:43). Russia's Ekaterina Poistogova won the 800 in 1:59.30 with Caster Semenya back in 5th (2:00.74) and Shannon Rowbury 8th (2:02.64), Hiwot Ayalew beat Milcah Chemos in the steeple.
*Nick Willis' 7:40 Was A 4 Second PR Willis said, "My body and mind were in shock once I passed the 1200m mark. ... I hadn't done anything to prepare specifically for a race over a mile, so it felt like I was just hanging on for dear life."

Distance News

• Kenenisa Bekele Hopes That His New Training Camp In Sululta, Ethiopia Will Be The Next Iten He wants runners from all over the World including "hobby joggers" to come train at his facilities.
  
• Lauren Fleshman And Kate Grace To Be Runway Models For Oiselle Gear During Fashion Week In NYC
  
• Galaxy of star athletes line up to receive World 800m champion Eunice Sum in Eldoret
  
• Mo Farah: "It'll be nice to continue that and be good at the marathon - but I don't know, we'll find out."
  
• Cal Poly's Laura Hollander And Georgia's Brandon Lord Are USTFCCCA XC Athletes Of The Week
  
• David Rudisha Visiting Ireland To Attend And Event Honoring Coach Brother Colm O'Connell
  

UK 20-Year Old Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Excited About Future After 5th Place Finish In Moscow, But Downplays Comparisons To Jessica Ennis

Tuesday Was Malcolm Gladwell's 50th Bday: MB: Malcolm Gladwell has read Epstein's book - wonders why dopers are condemned for trying to overcome genetic disadvantages - Do Genetic Advantages Make Sports Unfair?
*Podcast Where Gladwell Tries To Convince Nicholas Thompson Legalizing PEDs Is The Way To Go

Road News *2013 New Haven 20k Results

US 20k Champs: Matt Tegenkamp (1:00:09), Meghan Peyton (1:09:54) Win US Titles At Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race (updated with RRW story)
*Tegenkamp Post-Race Interview
*Men's Race Highlights *Women's Race Highlights *Post-Race Videos Interviews
Pre-Race: LRC Teg Ready To Defend In New Haven, Eyeing 2:11 In Chicago, Abdi Ready To Challenge

Netherlands: Tirunesh Dibaba Runs 30:30 On The Roads In Netherlands, 4th-Fastest Ever She was after Paula Radcliffe's 30:21 WR but went out too slow in 15:21. *Twitter Blow-By-Blow Of Dibaba's Run *Discussion Thread

Kenenisa Bekele Wants To Run Marathon In Rio

News From Jamaica

Veronica Campbell-Brown Doping Hearing Doesn't Start Well - Jamaica Athletics And Anti-Doping Agency Were Totally Unprepared Campbell-Brown's attorney is the former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
*VCB Hearing Held Behind Closed Doors - No Media Allowed
*Columnist Wants US Vs. Caribbean Track Meet

Competitor Group Gives Up On Competition

• Competitor CEO Defends Decision To Drop All Elite Athlete Support - "We're a health and lifestyle company." For years, LRC wondered if it was going to be a problem that a hedge fund owned most of the biggest races in the US and now our nightmare is a reality.
• Tony Reavis Has Excellent Insight On CGI's Decision To Cancel Elite Athlete Program In case you were gone over the weekend, Competitor Group (the private equity owned group that owns the Rock N Roll Marathons, the Muddy Buddy Runs, and puts on the NFL Run Series) decided to effective immediately cancel its elite athlete program and not honoring appearance fees for upcoming races. A business decision that could impact the future of the sport of running. Reavis, with long ties to the Rock N Roll series, talks about why this was done with such haste (remember kids, if you want to know why something is done, follow the dollars). Sad day for the sport of running if this doesn't hurt CGI's bottom line.
  
  Competitor Group Says Goodbye To The Sport Of Running Competitor Group (Rock N Roll Races, Muddy Buddy, NFLRunSeries) Eliminates Any And All Support Of Elite Athlete Fields, Including Appearance Fees, Travel And Lodging updated They are owned by a private equity group and they say it's better for businesses not to spend money having pro fields and keeping the money for themselves. We understand the logic and no race has to have a pro field. What's ridiculous is that elite athletes for the Philly Half Marathon on September 15th will not have their appearance fees honored. The only way to fight back is by not running ANY of their events and using your influence to encourage your friends not to run any of their events: all the Rock N Roll Races, all the NFLRunSeries Events, Muddy Buddy events and more. If enough people care about the sport and inspiring a future generation of runners and Competitor thinks it will help their bottom line then they will re-institute the program. We're all for private enterprise, however the Competitor Group is a private equity group that profits to a large extent because of public resources. It relies not only on volunteers and the government shutting down roads, but on millions of dollars (more here, here, here) of government tax dollars going directly to Competitor Group. We believe with such dollars comes some obligation to inspire a future generation of runners by supporting the (top end of the) sport of running just a little. Vote with your feet. *Original RunBlogRun Story
  Discuss: *Competitor drops support for elite athletes immediately
  *I support Competitor group's decision to withdraw support for Elite Athletes
  *Competitor ditching the elites is a blessing in disguise b/c I'm sick of watching our runners get paid to "race"

Saturday Action

DecaNations: Nick Symmonds Keeps Winning, USA Wins, As Does Alysia Montano 1:49 and 2:00 for Symmonds and Montano as you see what happens when there are no rabbits.
*DecaNations Results

Amsterdam: Susan Kuijken Sets Dutch Record At 2,000m At Flame Games translate.google.com She beat Zoe Buckman among others. Ben True, Miles Batty, Ryan Hill in 1,500. Kerron Clement won the 400 in 46.70. Caster Semenya 2:04 and Phoebe Wright 2:04.
Flame Game Results

Lille Half Marathon Results

Negative News

• Scammer Poses As Ezekiel Kemboi On Facebook To Cheat Kenyans Out Of Money
• Conspiracy Or Just Neurotic? President Of The Athletic Federation Of Nigeria Claims Blessing Okagbare Was The Victim Of "Russian Politics" At Worlds Claims that the Russians altered the schedule purposely to give their athlete the advantage in the LJ because they knew Okagbare was tripling 100-200-LJ. He even said that if she was American, it never would have happened.
• Not Kidding Anyone: NBA Star David Lee Says NBA Drug Testing Is "Very Thorough" And That No One Tests Positive Because Players Are Simply Staying Clean Meanwhile, players know that they're only tested 4 times a year and after the 4th test they can do whatever they want without fear of testing.
• NY Times Ethicist Makes An Interesting, Yet Flawed, Case Against The Use Of PEDs In Sports He feels that "there are no sound moral arguments against P.E.D.s," but there are "ethical" ones, so while there are no "logical" reason PEDs should be illegal, athletes shouldn't use them because it's the rules.
• Former USATF Head Doug Logan Continues To Argue That PEDs Should Be Legalized And Claims WADA Is Nowhere Close To Delivering A Drug-Free Sport Logan: "We should face facts over this drug issue. It is a war we are unable and unwilling to fight and that we have already lost. We selectively prosecute a token few while the majority of users get off scot free."
• Fit & Healthy 23-Year-Old Collapsed And Died During The April Brighton Marathon Due To A "Perfect Storm" Reaction Of Sports Supplements And Ibuprofen

2013 Worlds Special Section

2013 DL Season Ends Friday In Brussels
*IAAF: 16 More Overall Diamond League Winners To Bed Decided In Brussels 9 events are already locked up, but the last 7 are up in the air. The men's 5000 will come down to Hagos Gebrhiwet and Yenew Alamirew, the women’s High Jump between World champ Svetlana Shkolina and Anna Chicherova and the women's steeplechase could be won by any 4 women.
*Provisional Start Lists And TV/Streaming Information For 2013 Belgacom Memorial Van Damme

Other Upcoming: Berlin Marathon Is September 29th

• WR Holder Patrick Makau And 2nd Fastest Man Ever Wilson Kipsang To Team Up To Go After WR At The Berlin Marathon On September 29th They are serious about the record attempt with Kipsang even in brining along his own training partner as a pacer. Kipsang said, "If the weather and other factors remain constant, running under the 2: 03 mark is very much possible.” The women's field will include Irina Mikitenko (2:19:19), Desiree Davila (her first full marathon since dropping out of the Olympics) and Kenya’s Florence Kiplagat (2009 Berlin champ).
• A Lot Goes Down At IOC Meeting On September 7th As They Will Choose A New President, The 2020 Olympic Host And 1 Sport To Be Added To The 2020 Games The favorites are Tokyo, Thomas Bach and wrestling.
  *IOC is asked to consider human rights in selecting Olympic host
• World 400m Champion Christine Ohuruogu Racing Over 150 Meters At Great North CityGames on September 14th She'll race US's Natasha Hastings and Jamaica’s 2004 Olympic sprint relay gold medallist Aleen Bailey.

Random But Interesting

• 25 Nike Ads That Shaped The Brand's History
• Good News For Road Racers: Road Races Might Have More Porta-Potties In The Future As The Industry Looks At How It Calculates Demand The new portable-toilet standards for road races are expected to be in place by next summer.
  
• Even Short Bouts Of Exercise Only Lasting 5-Minutes Can Add Up To Help Prevent Weight Gain
• Study Finds That Prolonged Sitting Increases Health Risks Even With People Who Are Active

Interesting Reads

• A Legend Calls It A Career: Zurich Was Dwight Phillips' Last Competition - Goodbye, Dwight, And Thank You He retires with 4 world titles and one Olympic title to his name.
• Catching Up With 1993 Foot Locker Champ Who Won As A Freshman 20 Years Ago
• Competitor CEO Defends Decision To Drop All Elite Athlete Support - "We're a health and lifestyle company." For years, LRC wondered if it was going to be a problem that a hedge fund owned most of the biggest races in the US and now our nightmare is a reality.
• Dwain Chambers Lost It When GBR Bronze Medal 4 X 100 Was DQed, Police Were Called To Moscow Stadium

News From Japan

• Nearly 50 Years After Epic 10,000 Win, Billy Mills Backs Tokyo For 2020
• A Look Back At When Tokyo Was Awarded 1964 Olympics Rome spent $30 million on the 1960 Games. The Japanese took it to another level and spent $1.9 billion.
• He's Nuts: Kawauchi Wins Ekiden Stage Two Weeks After World Championships

Random Action/News

• Kenya Won 4 Golds At African Juniors
• Men's And Women's Records Fell At The North Face Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) On Sunday In Chamonix, France
• Reigning Commonwealth Games Heptathlon Champ Louise Hazel Quits Event - Won't Defend Title

Sunday's Track Action *Berlin Results *Padua Results

Berlin: 53,000 Spectators In Berlin As Women's Javelin, Men's Discus Highlight Berlin
*Valerie Adams Ends Season In Berlin With 42nd-Straight Win
*Berlin ISTAF Results World Champion Mo Aman won the 800 over Duane Solomon. Dayron Robles with a win.

Padua, Italy Recap: Dylan Armstrong Throws Far, LaShawn And Aries Merritt Both Win Andrew Wheating was 4th in the 800m in 1:47.33, Erik Sowinski was 3rd in 1:47.31. Emily Infeld 2nd in 1,500.
*Results
On The Boards: Wheating Making Progress It's up for debate.

Tuesday: Zagreb Preview IAAF David Oliver takes on his fellow medalists from Worlds, local hero Sandra Perkovic in the discus, Ryan Whiting and Dylan Armstrong in shot, great women's hurdles matchup with all the London medalists.

Friday: Bolt Running 100m In Brussels

Kenyan Athletics May Finally See Some Change

• Tension In Athletics Kenya As 50 Former Athletes Wants AK Head Isaiah Kiplagat To Quit
• Scathing Editorial In Kenyan Newspaper On Isaiah Kiplagat "The corridors of power at Athletics Kenya have been trampled by him ever since the year of our lord 1975 and the everlasting man has both created and weathered storms in these realms in different capacities."

Diamond League Finale #1 - Weltklasse Zürich *Full  Results *Event-By-Event Results (With Progressions/Splits)

IAAF Full Meet Recap: Defar And Bondarenko Dazzle In Zurich Bondarenko hushed the crowd and then made 1 WR attempt.
*Athletics Weekly Full Meet Recap
*Usain Bolt Comes From Behind To Win In 9.90 As All 9 Guys Finish Within .17 Of Each Other
*Jamaica Gleaner: Ugly 100m Win For Bolt

In Case You Missed It: Sprint Race Videos (distance links in articles and here): *Men's 100m: Bolt Vs.Gatlin *Men's 110m Hurdles: David Oliver Vs. Stacked Field *Men's 400m: LaShawn Merritt Vs. Kirani James For $50,000 *Women's 200m

LRC M 8: The Nick Symmonds Train Keeps Rolling Nick Symmonds got the win in a nice 1:43.56 as he ran aggressively from the start. Duane Solomon was 4th as Brandon Johnson struggled. *800m Race Video
MB: SYMMONDS 1:43.56 FTW in Zurich, out in 50.52.

LRC W 8: Eunice Sum Is 100% For Real - She Beats Savinova Again After A Thrilling Stretch Run Savinova and Sum were side-by-side for basically the entire last 100, but in the end Sum emerged $50,000 richer. Caster Semenya and the Americans, Ajee Wilson and Alysia Montaño, were non-factors. *Race Video
*Capital FM: Awe-Sum Eunice Adds Diamond Sparkle
MB: Eunice Sum dissed!
MB: Caster Semenya has gotten HUGE!

LRC M Steeple: Hillary Yego Wins As Conseslus Kipruto Manages To Hang On To DL Title The big names struggled here, making Evan Jager's decision not to steeple look a little bit wiser.

More Coverage From Outside LRC: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Won Zurich 200 And Overall Diamond League Title
*Usain Bolt Backs Adam Gemili To Become A "Great" Sprinter As Long As He Isn't Pressured Too Much
*After Only Finishing 6th In Moscow, GB's Shara Proctor Wins Zurich LJ And Overall DL Title, Beating All Threw World Medalists
*Gemili (10.06) Bemoans His "Rubbish" 100m In Zurich Bolt told Gemili to enjoy the big meets more and and not get nervous.
*List Of US Performances From Zurich: 4 Americans Win

Marathon / Road News

• Pamela Anderson Running This Year's NYC Marathon
• 2014 Boston Marathon Registration To Begin On September 9th; Field Size Increased By 9,000 From Last Year This BAA press release includes the qualifying standards/process and says the race will have 36,000 official entrants this year.
• Comrades Marathon Race Director: "Comrades is an extremely hard race and hard is what makes it great."
• Chicago Marathon Announces Increased Security For 2014 Race