– Jenny Simpson talking about her race at the 2014 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix 2-Mile where she thought she was on the last lap and kicked too early. She still finished 2nd in 9:26.19 and ended up less than 3 seconds off drug cheat Regina Jacobs‘ American record of 9:23.38.
The Double Standard Continues: Tyson Gay Tested Positive After Trusting Doctor Of Many NFL Stars David Epstein, in a joint piece for Pro Publica and Sports Illustrated, says that Tyson Gay tested positive this summer after seeing a doctor favored by a slew of NFL stars. It’s believed Gay’s positive resulted from him taking a cream which the manufacturer says doesn’t even have testosterone in it (but the label does), just DHEA – a substance legal in both the MLB and NFL but banned in track as it’s a steroid precursor. USADA has been told that Jon Drummond carried the cream around Monaco for Gay in 2012. *Piece On SI.com
*Discuss On MB: Doping Double Standard Continues: D Epstein Reports Tyson Gay Tested Positive After Seeing Doctor Favorited By NFL Stars
*LRC Archive: The Doping Double Standard In American Sports Needs To End
This one lived up to the hype. The US All-Stars anchored by Erik Sowinski just held off Michael Rutt's NY/NJ Track Club team as both teams broke the previous world record. Recap, analysis and post-race video from the 4 x 800 record setters and Robby Andrews and Nick Symmonds.
The US All-Stars anchored by Erik Sowinski set the world record in the 4 x 800 just ahead of Michael Rutt's NY/NJ Track Club team that broke the previous WR as well. Tremendous race. Mary Cain improved her 1,000m world junior record, Jenny Simpson kicked a lap early in the 2-mile and missed the American record as a result, Nick Willis won the mile, and Galen Rupp dropped out with a minor injury, Kim Conley dominated the 2k, and Ryan Hill placed third in the 3,000 and showed he's the real deal.
Post-Race Videos: Galen Rupp Dropped Out, Mary Cain WJR, Erik Sowinski After 4 X 800 World Record, Michael Rutt Just Misses, Jenny Simpson Kicked A Lap Early, Nick Willis Winner, Leo Manzano Last, Ryan Hill 8:35 *18 MORE Post-Race Videos
*Galen Rupp Still Did A Workout After A DNF In NBIGP Mile Alberto Salazar said Rupp was racing in an experimental pair of Nike spikes, but did a “fantastic” post-race workout in his regular spikes after dropping out.
*MB: Classic: Experimental pair of nike shoes got Rupp injured
*USATF Recap According to the USATF, Solomon’s “all-star” team gets the World Record, but the NJ-NY Track Club will officially hold the American record “because all members of a relay team breaking an AR must be members of the same recognized club.”
*Quotes From Top Athletes
Fan Twitter Q&A With US 5K Record Holder Molly Huddle Huddle says she’d like to run a marathon before 2016.
University Of Oregon’s Pepsi Team Invitational Gone Without Explanation The invy is a quadrangular meet that has been a “centerpiece of Oregon’s home track & field regular season since 1987,” but is now gone and in an interview, head coach Robert Johnson refused to explain why. Ken Goe points out that this was always the key home meet and one of the rare scored meets in the NCAA.
Russian Athletes Prepare For Russian Indoor Champs Feb. 17th – 19th Coach of Olympic HJ champ Ivan Ukhov says Ukhov didn’t hit the WR in his last meet because he was “over motivated.”
LA, according to Torres, is offering $100,000 less in prize money for the Trials than Houston. If LA is such a great place to offer the Trials, shouldn't that mean more publicity, more sponsorship, and more $ for the athletes. What about the athletes?
*Discuss
Two-time World Cross-Country champion Craig Virgin has called for more transparency in the legal supplements/medications athletes may be taking. LRC spoke with Virgin on his comments and with Galen Rupp’s agent Ricky Simms about Virgin’s comments and the calls for more transparency. Plus, Simms tells LRC Mo Farah has never been on thyroid medication.
The 2016 Olympic Trials Marathon will be in Los Angeles. Reportedly, a USATF panel voted 5-0 to put the Trials in Houston, but that recommendation was ignored by USATF CEO Max Siegel. One big change, likely because of the panel favoring Houston, was the date of the LA Marathon (and the Trials) being moved to the middle of February, so athletes could double back to the Track Trials.
Discuss: Olympic Marathon Trials to Be in LA
Nick Willis won the mile as Galen Rupp dropped out and Leo Manzano got last place. Hagos G won the 3k, but the big news was Ryan Hill has officially arrived.
Mary Cain keeps rolling, Jenny Simpson entertained, Treniere Moser is going for it, Chanelle Price keeps improving and Kim Conley is crushing everyone. Analysis and video interviews.
Nebraska-Omaha’s Sami Spenner Is The Top Pentathlete In The US Right Now (6th All-Time In Collegiate History) But Isn’t Allowed To Go To NCAAs Spenner explains that her school is transitioning from DII to DI, which locks the school’s athletes out of nationals for 4 years. She tried to appeal the rule last year as a junior, but the NCAA told her the only way she was going to NCAAs was if she transferred for her senior year.
IAAF Weekend Indoor Roundup: Russian High Jumpers Ivan Ukhov And Alesky Dmitrik Both Clear 2.40m At Arnstadt HJ Meet In Germany Ukhov, the Olympic champ, won on countback and this was the first time ever a HJer cleared as high as 2.40m and lost.
Just 5 days after setting the 1,500 WR, Dibaba ran at Stockholm’s XL Galan to break the 8:23.72 record set by Meseret Defar in 2007. Including outdoor times, only 3 women have ever run faster: China’s Wang Junxia, Qu Yunxia and Zhang Linli. Other big performances in the meet included Sweden’s Abeba Aregawi running the second quickest indoor 1500 of all-time. She won by more than 10-seconds with 3:57.91 which would have broke the previous WR if Dibaba hadn’t just ran 3:55. Mohammed Aman set the 800 World lead with 1:45.08 and Morocco’s Mohamed Moustaui got the win/WL in the 1500 in 3:35.0 over Ayanleh Souleiman withSilas Kiplagat and Nixon Chipseba way back. There were also several world leads in the jumps.
*MB: GENZEBE DIBABA 3000m WORLD RECORD 8.16
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*European Athletics Recap: Aregawi’s 3:57 Was A New European Record
Two-Time World Champion Edna Kiplagat Isn’t Worried About Tirunesh Dibaba Making Her Debut At The London Marathon Kiplagat said, “It’s good we are having Tirunesh as a debutante but it will not be easy for her. Marathon is four times what she has been running, 10,000m. She has to make a lot of sacrifice to make sure she is going to handle the marathon.”
Mo Farah Accuses Kenenisa Bekele Of Taking The “Easy Route” Ducking The Competition In London “I was looking forward to [racing Bekele] but it’s up to him. If he really wanted it he could make it work. I could have chosen the easy option and gone somewhere else for my first marathon but I’ve gone straight in there because that’s what I do.”
LRC Will Geoghegan Q & A: The Secrets Of Going From 4:05 To 3:58 In The Mile Are Revealed Will Geoghegan‘s story shows not all track stars are born overnight – it just seems like it as he went from 4:05 to 3:58 last week. The Dartmouth senior is on a roll in 2014, leading the NCAAs in the mile, but it was not an easy ride to the top. Freshman year, he quit the Dartmouth team and was flunking his courses; now he’s going to have his pick of schools for his fifth year, unless he takes an LRC internship.
*MB: Will Geoghegan to NOP?
LRC Leo Manzano Reveals He’s Now Self-Coached, Hoping To Represent USA At 2014 World Indoors We flew up to Boston a day early and are glad we did as the pre-race press conference certainly was informative. Ryan Ponsonby is no longer coaching Leo, who is looking to hit it hard in indoors this year. Guess what he ran recently for 1k in practice?
We're a little bit late getting this up this week, but it's worth recapping a week that saw possibly the greatest women's 1,500m ever run, one of the greatest high school 3,000m ever run, and some crazy-fast collegiate DMR action.
Genzebe Dibaba, the younger sister of Tirunesh Dibaba, ran 3:55.17 for 1,500m in Karlsruhe, Germany to absolutely destroy the previous world record of 3:58.28 by Yelena Sobolova of Russia. Dibaba's time is arguably the greatest 1,500m ever run as it is the fastest time indoors or out since 1997. Nixon Chepseba ran 3:37.02 to win the men's 1,500m. Caleb Ndiku won the men's 3,000m in 7:36 with Augustine Choge, Yenew Alamirew and Bernard Lagat 2-4.
Rojo, Wejo and Yohan Blake performing "The Beast" is our personal LRC photo of the year. What's your 2013 running photo of the year? Submit or tweet your entries to us. Winner gets a cool $100.
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