Weekend Pro Action

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  Sally Pearson Runs World-Leading 7.79 In Berlin

  This was one of the most attended indoor track meets of the year as it had over 10,000 fans and didn't have an event over 60m but did have an indoor discus. *Results

• Houston Champ Bazu Worku Wins 4th Marathon In 5 Tries At Lake Biwa

  Worku has made a nice living running frequently and winning.
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  Morocco's Aziz Lahbabi Runs Fastest Time By A Non-East African (59:25) To Win Rome-Ostia Half Marathon

  Caroline Chepkwony held off 2012 Boston champ Sharon Cherop on the women's side.

Sunday Pro News Of Note

Neely Spence Gracey To Have Knee Surgery To Remove Fragmented Piece Of Patella

• Sandra Perkovic Throws Massive 70.51m At Croatian Winter Throwing Championships

  Perkovic set 2 PRs and improved her previous best by more than  a meter (4.5 feet) and went over the 70m mark for the first time.
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  Asics Becomes Title Sponsor Of Mammoth Track Club

  Legend Deena Kastor is the president of Mammoth Track Club and an Asics athlete, so not a huge surprise.

7 Days Until 2014 World Indoors

Gold And Silver For USA? LRC Full Kenyan And Ethiopian Squads Unveiled For 2014 World Indoors – Chanelle Price And Ajee’ Wilson Will Face Zero Competitors From Either Country The Ethiopian women actually had no one qualified in the 800 and the only Kenyans qualified were from last year’s times. *Kenyan Team Named For World Indoors

• Britain’s 20 Year Old Laura Muir Has #3 Time in World at 800 and 1500 Heading into World Indoors Muir wasn’t that great at track as a youngster but now is shining. Discuss: What is up with women’s mid-d this year with 2:00.94 and 4:05.32 being the #3 times in the world?
• Kiwi Shot Putter Tom Walsh Training with Val Adams in Switzerland Before World Indoors Adams is paying for Walsh to train with her it sounds like as he’s a construction worker trying to make it as a shot putter. This is his first major international meet.
• After 3 Disastrous Indoor Races (2:11, 2:07, 2:07), Pamela Jelimo Gives Up On Indoor Season And Kenya Won’t Be Sending Anyone In Women’s 800
• RR: Q&A With World #2 Chanelle Price, Who Is Flourishing Now That She’s Not Focusing On Just Running

LRC More Albuquerque Craziness: Sanctioned Doper Christian Hesch Volunteered As A Drug Testing Chaperone At USA Indoors Before Having Credential Revoked By USATF No, it’s not April Fools. Who knows what we’ll have tomorrow.

LRC The Inside Story Of The Andrew Bumbalough DQ: A Case Of Mistaken Identity Or A Near Catastrophe Bigger Than The Grunewald DQ Averted? Salazar, possibly fixated on Bumbalough since he out-leaned Rupp at the 2012 Trails, got Bumby DQed from a race where he made no contact with Rupp as the officials and Salazar got him confused with Ryan Hill. But we get you to ponder for a minute, how big would have the outrage been if Hill had beaten Rupp on the track and then been DQed for making this (see above) amount of contact 1k from the finish?
*MB: Challenge: Post Examples of DQs for Actions Similar to Grunewald and Ryan Hill
*MB: Imagine for a moment that Hill had beaten Rupp and then been DQd for bumping him 1k from the finish

How About A Little More Drama? LRC Lopez Lomong Says He Was Verbally Berated By Alberto Salazar After Men’s 3k: “To see the outrage in his eyes, he was very, very mad. … It was very hard to see how unprofessional, the (lack of) sportsmanship.”

Wall Street Journal Picks Up W 3k Story: USA Track Reinstates Disqualified Champ 744-word article by Sara Germano and Kevin Helliker.

The Most Popular Single Day Story In LRC History
LRC The Inside Story Of Gabriele Grunewald’s DQ – Insider Access, False Promises And A Violation Of USATF’s Own Rules? By now, you’ve heard bits and pieces about what happened on Saturday but we tell you the inside story of what really went down, plus reveal that the Fat Lady hasn’t sung yet as an arbitration hearing will take place later this week.

LRC Gabriele Grunewald Reinstated As USATF Champ As Jordan Hasay Withdraws DQ USATF CEO Max Siegel said that “they followed the process laid out in our competition rules.” Scary thought if true, with no transparency on the part of USATF. *Discuss

USA Indoor Champs *Results *Full 2014 USA Indoor Coverage *New USATF Indoor Photos 200+

• Men: LRC Men’s 1,500: Lopez Lomong Doubles Back From The 3,000 To Get The Win In A Stacked 1,500 Lomong ran a very well-executed race to get the win over a great field. Will Leer used his “Wanamaker Mile finish” to grab second and almost run down Lomong.
• LRC Men’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 Albuquerque
  *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.
• LRC Men’s 800: Erik Sowinski Dominates As Robby Andrews Grabs Second But Nick Symmonds Is Going To Poland Sowinski was the clear winner as Andrews just nipped Symmonds for second. However, Andrews doesn’t have the 1:47.00 World qualifying time, so Symmonds will go to Worlds.