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– Coaches Dennis Barker and Lee Troop talking about controversies involving Alberto Salazar after both the women’s and men’s 3k at a crazy first day 1 of USAs as reported by Jon Gugala on RunBlogRun. The women’s 3k still doesn’t have a winner after a protest was filed by Salazar, who after the men’s 3k had to be physically prevented from going after fellow Nike coach Jerry Schumacher.
LRCMen’s 3,000: Bernard Lagat Proves Age Is Just A Number As He Puts On A Clinic For Galen Rupp And Ryan Hill In The Last Lap To Win In AlbuquerqueWhat was probably the most anticipated race of the meet did not disappoint as it came down to a 3-way battle at the end with Lagat blowing everyone away and Rupp grabbing the last Worlds spot over Hill. As good as Lagat was, the post-race battle between two the two star Nike coaches may have been even more riveting.
*LRC Men’s 3K Interviews: The Genius Behind Bernard Lagat’s Tactics, Galen Rupp Talks About Being In 3rd With A Lap To Go And Andrew Bumbalough Explains The Hot Early Pace
LRC Nike Coaches Alberto Salazar And Jerry Schumacher Have Heated Exchange, Have To Be Separated After Men’s 3,000 At 2014 USA Indoors The two Nike coaches’ frosty relationship hit a new high (or low) on Saturday.
Run Blog Run:Eyewitness Account Of Salazar Trying To Go After Schumacher: “It was like a volcano that was just building up to erupt, and we saw the complete eruption and the meltdown.” Three-time Olympian Lee Troop saw the whole thing unfold and says Salazar was way out of line: “To be perfectly honest, it was just bad for the sport, the way the whole thing was conducted. It looked poor; it was bad; I think a lot of people are going to be walking away with a really bad taste in their mouth. It’s just not right on so many levels.”
*MB:Post-Race Day 1 USA Indoor Drama: Nike Coaches Alberto Salazar And Jerry Schumacher Have To Be Physically Restrained
LRCMen’s 800 Prelims: Favorites Get Through To Set Up Mouth-Watering Final With Symmonds, Rutt, Andrew, Mulder, Wieczorek, Sowinski In case you missed out, our 800 event preview is here.
Message Board Chatter:
Explosive Interview With Former Mile Indoor Record Holder Eamonn Coghlan
SpikesMag Shares The Ten Reasons They Think Renaud Lavillenie Was Able To Break The Pole Vault WR Last Weekend They share some interesting facts about Lavillenie.
Oregon Women Move Back To The Top Of NCAA Polls As Last Week’s Number 1 Texas Moves Down To 5th Arkansas men stay on top.
W3k:LRCGabe Grunewald Blows Away The Field Over The Last Lap & Wins Her First US National Championship – Or Does She? – Status Of Alberto Salazar’s DQ Protest Still UnknownOn the track, there was no doubt who was the best over the final 200 – cancer survivor Gabe Grunewald – as Shannon Rowbury got 2nd. But Alberto Salazar has filed a protest to get Jordan Hasay on the Worlds team and much of the sport is up in arms as USATF once again still hasn’t made up their minds. We believe filing the protest was ridiculous – akin to getting blitzed by 10 in the fourth quarter of a B-Ball game and then complaining about a foul at the start of the 4th.
*Decide For Yourself: LRCRace Video Of Alleged Foul
*Sara Vaughn Speaks on Indoor Championship’s Athlete Atmosphere, 3000m controversy Vaughn: “I don’t know if I would call it intimidation, but there’s definitely hesitation [to speak out]. You have to think how stirring things up might you affect you getting into a future race or a future sponsorship deal.”
LRCWomen’s 800 Prelims: Wilson, Beckwith And Price Go Wire-To-WireThe big three looked great here setting up what should be a hard-fought final on Sunday. If you missed our preview, it’s here.
MB Chatter:
Dickson Chumba (2:05:42) And Tirfi Tsegaye (2:22:23) Set Tokyo Marathon CRs As Five Japanese Men Break 2:10 The race was fantastic as both the men’s and women’s races were decided after 40k.
*MB:2014 Tokyo Thread
Asian XC Champs:Non-Asian Born Runners Dominate Asian Cross-Country Champs They took the top 5 spots in the men’s race and four in the women’s.
LRCList Of American Athletes With Qualifying Standard For 2014 USA World Indoors In Poland The USA team for World Indoors will be named this weekend as no chasing of qualifiers is allowed. Who has the qualifying time? Who doesn’t? *Entries
Webb, the American mile record holder, talks about his career after running one last mile in the place where he first broke 4:00.
The men’s mid-d and distance action was pretty spectacular at the 2014 NYRR Millrose Games. We tell you all about it. Here’s an intro – imagine breaking a 33-year-old American record and finishing 5th.
Mary Cain won the mile, Ajee' Wilson the 800 and Kim Conley the 3,000.
More Millrose Coverage Here, Click Here For Photo Gallery
LRCWorld Record Holders “Dirty” Or “Clean” Doping Poll Results Without further ado, we present to you the results of our world record doping poll. LRCThe “Dirty” Or “Clean” Doping Polls: Why Did We Do Them? Many of you get it. You voted and gave us some very interesting demographic data. We think you’ll find the data very interesting. Some of you don’t get it and have said so. Here we address some of your concerns.
*Blogger Reflects On LetsRun’s “Clean Or Dirty Polls” And Says It Has Helped Promote Belief In A Clean Sport He writes, “The most surprising aspect of the data to me was the percentage of voters who thought that athletes were clean. … This data is surprising because I thought that as a community we were more cynical than the numbers show.”
*MB:LetsRun “Clean or Dirty” Poll Discussion Thread
*MB:Wait a minute! Over 40% of letsrun visitors DON’T think El G was doped up?
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