Quote Of The Day
– Nick Willis explaining why he initially finished just outside the medal positions in an agonizing 4th (he later was DQed for stepping inside).
LRCM 1,500 Final: Souleiman Arrives As A Star, Nick Willis Just Misses (And Gets DQ), Leer A Non-Factor, And A Possible Boycott Of USATFs?
World, meet the newest mid-d star Ayanleh Souleiman. Souleiman controlled the race from start to finish, as Nick Willis came up just short of a medal, Will Leer was a non-factor and talked about a possible boycott of USAs. Recap, results, and video and a dance by Souleiman.
*MBoards: Souleiman 3:37.52 *Leer Ran Stupid
*LRC Post-Race Video With Souleiman, Willis, Leer
*DQ Cost Nick Willis $8,000
*Kenyan Papers Rip Birgen And Kiplagat: “Birgen scoops wooden spoon in Sopot.” That means last place.
*“Kiplagat’s habit of choking at the big stage continued.”
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LRC An Insider’s Account Of Day 1 Of 2014 World Indoors: 10 Behind-The-Scenes/Interesting Stories From Day 1
Get Ready for Sunday’s Finals (Men’s 3k at 11:10 am eastern)
LRC M3k: What A Final We’re Going To Have! The Stars, Including Americans Lagat And Rupp, Advance (updated with video interviews)
*MB: Mark my words: Levins will beat Rupp tomorrow
LRC W800 Drama Packed: Ajee Wilson, The World’s Fastest In 2014, Bombs Out, Chanelle Price Dreams Of Gold, Muir In Tears, Iceland Teen Phenom DQed
*MB: Why does Chanelle Price take her turns so wide?
*MB: Ajee Wilson Goes Out – What Happened?
LRC Women’s 3,000: A Pointless First Round Leaves Us Exactly Where We Were 24 Hours Ago
LRC Men’s Shot: 20-Year-Old Stephen Mozia Fails To Advance To Final, But Turns Heads With A Long Foul
Elite News At Home
- Aaron Braun ready for marathon debut in LA
- Bad News: Kansas Relays drops all pro races to save $200,000 out of $70 million Athletics budget
- “The Alan Webb Story” – USATF.tv Does Short 12-Minute Documentary On The Career And Final Race Of Webb We don’t know if a 12-minute video can do justice to the great career of Webb, but think people should watch remember him as a 3:53 high school miler and the American record holder that he is.
Steve Prefontaine Wins An Oscar – Well, The Actor Who Played Him Did Jared Leto, the actor who starred in the movie, Prefontaine, won an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Dallas Buyers Club as a HIV-positive transgender woman living in Texas in the 1980s.- Emily Infield Got Cut From The Track Team At Age 10 And Started Her Track Career As A Race Walker, Which She Called “super nerdy and weird.”
Not A Bad Season: Torrence Adds A 1K AR To His 4 X 8 WR
David Torrence Sets 1,000m American Record At BU As Canadian And NCAA Records Also Go Down
Torrence ran 2:16.76 to break David Krummenacker's 2:17.86. Nate Brannen was 2nd in a Canadian record of 2:16.87 (old record was 2:19.04 by Simon Hoogewerf from 1989) while BU's Rich Peters ran 2:18.55, breaking the old NCAA record of 2:19.53 set by Penn State's Robby Creese in 2012.
*Full BU Last Chance Meet Results
*Discuss *Torrence Interview *Brannen Interview
*Full BU Last Chance Meet Results
*Discuss *Torrence Interview *Brannen Interview
Some Weekend Reading Material
LRCFemale Track And Field Stars: "Dirty" Or "Clean" Doping Poll Results
Without further ado, we present to you the results of our current female stars doping polls - from Molly Huddle (8.4%) to Carmelita Jeter (89.4%) and everyone else in between, who do the most sophisticated track and field fans think are "clean" and who do they think are "dirty." *Discuss The Poll Here
Updated With Post-Race Reaction1,500 Final W: Aregawi Dominates For Gold, Treniere Moser Misses The Medals, And Heather Kampf Falls
Abeba Aregawi went out and crushed the field. There have now been 3 2 DQs after the race. Moving Canada’s Nicole Sifuentes to bronze and Treniere Moser to 4th 5th. (3rd DQ reversed on appeal).
On The Boards: Womens 1500m – 3 DQs – Sifuentes Bronze?
LRCCould a Little More Distance Training Earned Ashton Eaton $50,000? Eaton Wins World Heptathlon Title In Almost World Record Missing It By 1.18 Seconds
Eaton was ahead of WR pace going into the heptathlon 1000m, but came up a bit short and missed breaking his WR by 14-points. We decided to take this opportunity to talk distance running with Eaton and see what kind of a training a double-multi-event WR holder does.
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Non-LRC Day 2 Coverage
- Ashton Eaton Just Misses 4th Hep WR – 1.18 Seconds Short Of WR Eaton: “I tried. I’m not a robot.”
*Abrahamson: Is Winning Gold Ever “Failure”? - Day 2 IAAF Recap: A Night Of Big Surprises As Sally Pearson Is Beaten Team USA’s Nia Ali pulled a huge upset in the women’s 60H over Sally Pearson, but there were also stunners all over the place.
*Pearson: “I stuffed up out there tonight.” - Team USA Has Great Day 2 PM – Wins 3 Golds Eaton, McCorory, Ali. *USA Quotes
White Guy Richard Kilty – Who Only Came To Worlds As Dasaoulu Was Injured – Wins 60m For GBR He was a 33-1 long shot.
*MB: White people finally have an international sprint champion White guys won the 60 and 400m. *MB: White sprinters dominate WC- Mauro Vinicius Da Silva Defends Long Jump Title in Dramatic Fashion Da Silva was out of the medals until his final jump when he snatched gold.
- Valerie Adams Wins Third World Indoor Title
- Andrew Osagie Full Of Belief Entering 800 Final
- UK’s Andrew Pozzi Targets Medal After Tying For Fastest 60H Qualifying Time In Heats
- Yekaterina Koneva Wins Women’s Triple Jump With Shortest Winning Mark In History
- Mutaz Barshim Won 2012 Olympic Bronze In HJ With A Broken Back
Day 1
- Hometown Paper: “Ajee’ Wilson’s run of success in international 800-meter racing has hit its first roadblock.”
- Laura Muir’s Young Hopes End In Failure
- Bronze Is Pure Gold For Tom Walsh In Shot Put
- Ryan Whiting Overcame Nerves To Win Shot Put Gold
- AFP Day 1 Recap: Nadine Broersen Wins Pentathlon Gold For USA, Ryan Whiting Defends Shot Put Title For USA, Brianne Thiesen Eaton Gets Silver In Pentathlon
More Worlds Coverage In Our Worlds Special Section
Oscar P Trial Updates
Security Guard Says Oscar Pistorius Lied And Told Him Everything Was Fine After The Gunshots Went Off Things aren’t looking good for Oscar P, who then called back and just started crying.- Neighbor Testifies That Pistorius Tried To Revived His Girlfriend After He Shot Her The neighbor arrived on the scene and found Pistorius trying to give her CPR, but she was already dead.
- Oscar P Cheated On His 18-Year-Old Girlfriend With Woman He Eventually Killed He
- Oscar Pistorius’ Friend Took The Blame For Him After A Restaurant Gunshot Incident
- Neighbor Says: “I thought he was going to hurt himself” Of Pistorius
- Neighbor Said He Heard Screams, Then Shots – Bangs Were Too Quick To Be Bat
Kenyan News
- Colm O’Connell Hopes David Rudisha Will Be Competing Within 6 Weeks But Says Progress May Come Slowly
- World 800m Champion Eunice Sum Leads Strong Kenyan Contingent In Melbourne In Two Weeks Mercy Cherono and Isaiah Koech are also competing. Koech will face Aussie Collis Birmingham and Ben St. Lawrence in the 5,000.
NCAA News
- 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships Accepted Entries – Men
*Accepted Entries – Women (link fixed) - Florida’s Men And Women Take Over #1 Rankings Ahead Of NCAA Champs Arkansas men and Oregon women both moved down to number 2.
- Oregon State Receives $2 Million Anonymous Donation For Phase 2 Of Their Track Construction
USATF Controversy Still Garnering News
- The Wall St Journal Goes Inside A Nike Family Feud: Alberto Salazar Calls Jerry Schumacher And Group His Mortal Enemies
*MB: WSJ- Salazar says Schumacher is ‘mortal enemy.'” - Gabe Grunewald DQ Controversy Gets Publicity In Deadspin
*… And ESPN - Nick Symmonds: “We basically allowed a young lady, Jordan Hasay, to save USATF’s butt.”
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