Quote Of The Day
– Chanelle Price, 800m WORLD CHAMPION.
UpdatedCHANELLE PRICE GETS THE GOLD!!!!!
Chanelle Price took it out really hard and hung on to win gold at 800 at the World Indoors. Wire-to-wire, world-leading time for the win. Impressive. Updated with analysis, comments, video interview.
New:Video Interview With Chanelle And Race Video
On The Boards:*CHANELLE MFin PRICE!!!
*Official Chanelle Price Splash Page Request Thread
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LRCWhat A Race: Mo Aman Finds A Way To Win, Poles Go 2-3 (Before DQ) As Crowd Goes Nuts, Aman Says Bring On Rudisha
Mo Aman did what champions do - find a way to win. The best 800m runner currently on the planet came from behind to pass Adam Kszczot on the final lap before the raucous packed Polish crowd to get gold. Poland was silver and bronze for a little while until Marcin Lewandowski was DQed and Andrew Osagie upgraded to bronze.
Mo Farah On Verge Of Running Into A Scottish Storm? UK Independent article claims Commonwealth Games organizers are furious that Farah might be snubbing their championships, but still running the Glasgow Grand Prix a few weeks before for a big payday.
Saturday
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.”
Other International News
- UK Opinion Piece: “Dwain Chambers has done more than enough to deserve forgiveness.” Chambers tested positive 11 years ago, but his former coach says, “In a world where the default setting for a doping positive is denial, Dwain did not only own up to his mistake, but he went out of his way to atone for it.”
- Winter Paralympics 2014: Ukraine Will Compete Despite Growing Unrest As Russia Sends Troops Into Crimea
- Sorry, Sergey Bubka:Renaud Lavillenie’s 6.16m PV World Record Officially Ratified By IAAF
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 WeeksMercy 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.”
updatedBernard Lagat Meets His Match As Caleb Ndiku Gets Gold, Lagat Silver, Rupp Fourth
Bernard Lagat at age 39 had a tremendous kick on Sunday, but he met his match in a younger version of himself as Caleb Ndiku was too good the final lap. Galen Rupp was a very respectable 4th.
New: Post-Race Video With Lagat, Rupp, Gebremeskel And Cam Levins
On The Boards:Official 3k thread – Race of the championships
*Renato Canova Tell Us About Caleb Ndiku
*What was the message on Ndiku’s shirt?
*Daddy Still Can Kick. 39 Year Old Lagat Over Rupp
*I finally understood what Rupp is lacking
*Galen Rupp is the real winner – ran in lane 2/3 the whole time!
LRCGenzebe Dibaba Remains Perfect, Hellen Obiri Gets Silver, Americans Non-Factors
(updated) Genzebe Dibaba dominated to remain undefeated in 2014 (like Mary Cain), defending champ Hellen Obiri got silver, and the Americans weren’t factors.
Video Interviews with Shannon Rowbury and Gabriele Grunewald
LRC video with the Americans after the 2014 Worlds.
Non-Distance Worlds Results
- IAAF Final Day Recap: US World Record In X 400, SAFP Wins 60, Yarisley Silva Wins Vault, Barshim Over Ukhov The World Indoor Champs in Poland went out with a bang. Recap of all the final day action.
*Day 3 US Quotes - Three More Gold Medals For USA On Day 3, Including A WR In The 4 X 400 The men’s 4 x 400 ran 3:02.13 to set an official WR, although it’s not the fastest time ever run, as a US team that included Jeremy Wariner ran 3:01.96 in 2006, but it wasn’t ratified as there wasn’t drug testing. The women’s 4 x 400 also won gold with an AR of 3:24.83 and Omo Osagha won gold in the 60H. Overall, USA won 12 medals (8 gold) at these championships.
- Lemons Into Lemonade:UK’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Wins LJ Silver After Missing Making Worlds In Pentathlon France’s Eloyse Lesueur took gold with 6.85m, beating out Johnson-Thompson’s 6.81m.
- IAAF On US’s Nia Ali Beating Sally Pearson In Worlds 60H: “Through the early rounds she floated like something of a butterfly. Then, when it came to the final round, she stung like a bee.”
- Like Kissing Your Sister:Poland’s Kamila Licwinko And Russia’s Mariya Kuchina Tie For World Indoor HJ Gold Medal They both got 2.00m and tied at 2.02 and since they had equal misses they tied. They had an option for a jump off, but both declined.
Saturday Night
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.
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 DidJared 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
Other Weekend Results
- Ethiopians Gebo Burka (2:10:37) And Amane Gobena (2:27:37) Win 2014 LA Marathon Titles The race was pretty quick considering the hot conditions and fairly close on the men’s side as Lani Rutto was second in 2:10:48. Aaron Braun ran his debut marathon and finished in 2:19:51 for 7th place after going through 20K on 2:12 pace. *Full Results
- Sara Hall Wins Mountain To Fountain 15K In Arizona In 51:20Andrew Lemoncello won the men’s race in 45:49 over Nick Hilton (45:56).
- Full 2014 IC4A Results Cornell won the team title over UConn.
- Full 2014 ECAC Results It was the opposite of the men’s team scoring as UConn won over Cornell.
- All NCAA Weekend Results
- Russian 39-Year-Old Mariya Konovalova Wins Nagoya Women’s Marathon In 2:23:43
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
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