Quote Of The Day
– Mo Farah talking about his two falls at the NYC Half Marathon yesterday. He was second in 1:01:07 after falling during the race and then he collapsed afterwards.
2014 NYC Half (Special Section) *Results*LRC Photo Gallery
LRCFive Thoughts On The 2014 NYC Half Marathon
Mo Farah is a fierce competitor, Molly and Sally debut, it's all about 26.2 and some human decency from Matt Tegenkamp showing the Schumacher-Salazar rivarly only goes so far.
LRCMutai Wins, Farah Falls Down During Race And Passes Out After, And More
Geoffrey Mutai won. Mo Farah fell during the race and then passed out after it and had to leave in a wheelchair, but was doing okay at the press conference later. The Mutai – Farah London matchup gets even more interesting. Tegenkamp was the first American and Meb is fitter than ever.
Interviews: Farah Presser, Meb, Tegenkamp, Sambu, Korir
*Official Race Play-By-Play Thread
LRCScreen Shots Of Mo Farah’s Race Fall
*LRCRace Photo Gallery With Photos Of Farah After Race
LRCSally Kipyego Wins Battle Of Debuts In Record Time, Molly Huddle Fades To 3rd
Sally Kipyego and Molly Huddle battled side-by-side in their debuts until Kipyego pulled away for the win and Huddle faded to third. Desi Davila Linden made her 2014 debut. Videos: Molly Huddle & Sally Press, Sally Kipyego 1-On-1, Adriana Nelson
2014 NCAA Indoor Track & Field*Results*Full Video Replays*NewDay 2 Photo Gallery*Day 1 Photo Gallery
Oregonian: Duck Men And Women Sweep The NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships – Women Win Tthanks To Incredible 4 X 400 Finish*AP Recap Of Day 2
LRC Canada’s And Mississippi State’s Brandon McBride Arrives As The 800’s Newest Collegiate Star Last year, the fastest high schooler in the history of North America flopped as a first-year collegian. Now he’s an NCAA champion. Meet Brandon McBride.
LRCAnthony Rotich Outkicks Frontrunning Lawi Lalang To Win 2014 Men’s Mile Title As Oregon’s Mac Fleet’s Big Kick Comes A Little Too Late
*LRCInterviews: Anthony Rotich, Lawi Lalang, Mac Fleet & Rich Peters
LRC Men’s 3,000: KING Edward Cheserek Is Three For Three In NCAA Championships As He Completes The Indoor 3K/5K DoubleEdward Cheserek comes away with two NCAA individual titles as he blew away the 3,000m field on the last lap as Oklahoma State’s Kirubel Erassa was a respectable runner-up and Colorado freshman Ben Saarel was 3rd.
LRC Super-Frosh:Georgia Freshman Kendell Williams Smashes NCAA And World Junior Record In Women’s Pentathlon *MB: While on the women’s side, Georgia frosh Kendell Williams destroys the NCAA and world junior record in pentathlon
More Day 1 NCAAs
Non-LRC Coverage
Field Events:Texas Kaitlin Petrillose Sets NCAA Meet Record In Pole Vault At 15’1″ (4.60m)
Sprints:Dezerea Bryant Wins Kentucky’s 1st-Ever Sprint National Title In Women’s 200 (22.69)
LRC Women’s 5,000: Abbey D’Agostino Is Halfway To Repeating The DoubleAbbey D’Agostino came through as the favorite as she defended her title in a tactical 16:20.39 and is halfway to repeating her 5k/3K double. Behind her, Stanford’s Aisling Cuffe and Kathy Kroeger went 2-3.
*MB:ERIN FINN HAS MORE BALLS THAN MOST MALE RUNNERS!!
LRCWomen’s DMR: Arkansas Denies Stanford A DMR Sweep As They Win It In The Last 400 The race came down to a two-team fight between Arkansas and Stanford with Dominique Scott (Arkansas) and Justine Federonic (Stanford) duking it out on the 1,600 leg. In the end, it would be Scott who got the job done as she got her team the dominant win in 11:05.83 to Stanford’s 11:08.28.
New Balance HS Nationals
- HS Nationals: MB:Foot Locker Champ Tessa Barrett Sets New HS Girls National Record Of 16:11.85 For 5k*Full NB Nationals Coverage
- Australia – Sydney Track ClassicMB: Duane Solomon Wins In Australia – 1:45.95, LaShawn Merritt 20.42, Lauren Fleshman 15:53.02Sally Pearson also won the 100 and 200.
- South American Games:Irving Saladino Beats World Indoor Champ Mauro Vinícius da Silva In LJ With 8.16m, Anderson Henriques Runs 45.03 In 400
2014 World Indoors *Results*LRC Day 1 PM Photos *LRC Day 1 AM Photos*LRC Day 2 PM Photos*LRC Day 3 Photos
For Complete On-Site 2014 IAAF World Indoor Coverage From Poland, Please Go To Our2014 Worlds Special Section
US 15K Champs
US 15k:Shalane Flanagan Breaks Deena's 15K Record Wins $25k, Ben True Outlasts Chris Derrick
“You kind of have these rare opportunities when everything comes together. You’ve got to seize the moment and take advantage of it,” Shalane said. Up next: Boston. It was the road debut of Derrick.
*On The Boards:Ben True Pulls Away From Derrick, Shalane Gets the Record
*On The Boards:Ben True Pulls Away From Derrick, Shalane Gets the Record
More NCAAs *Results*NewDay 2 Photo Gallery*Day 1 Photo Gallery
LRCThere Is No Way It Gets Better Than This: World, Meet Phyllis Francis
Final event. Oregon vs. Texas for the team title. World junior champion (Ashley Spencer) vs. new American record holder (Phyllis Francis). It was over. Then it wasn’t. To the line for the title. Francis (2:04.83 as a 16-year-old) gets it for Oregon by .02.
LRC: Laura Roesler Destroys The Field In An Instant, Captures Women’s 800 Title – Can She Get Collegiate Record Outdoors? Roesler’s last 160 was a thing of beauty – when will she go sub-2?
LRC:Women’s Mile: Crazy Final Lap As Emily Lipari Comes Through With A Monster Kick To Win Villanova’s Emily Lipari came through with a big kick to get the win over Arkansas’ Stephanie Brown and Cory McGee as the brave Leah O’Connor went from 1st to 7th the final 50m.
*LRCInterviews: Emily Lipari, Stephanie Brown, Shelby Houlian, Cory McGee, Leah O’Connor
Abbey D’Agostino Completes the Double
LRCWomen’s 3,000: Abbey D’Agostino Completes The Distance Double Again, But Arkansas’ Dominque Scott Makes Her Work For It Dartmouth’s Abbey D’Agostino won in 9:14.47 to repeat her distance double from last year, but she had to work for it as Arkansas’ Dominque Scott stayed right on her until a lap to go, finishing second in 9:16.05.
Weekend International Results: Kenya Sweeps African XC Champs
Kenya Sweeps All The Team And Individual Titles At The African Cross-Country Championships World Junior XC champ Faith Kipyegon and World Junior silver medalist Leonard Barsoton won the senior races.- Kenya’s Bedan Karoki Wins EDP Half Marathon In 59:58 Debut Ertrea’s World XC bronze medalist Teklemariam Medhin was 4th (1:01:17), World 10,000 bronze medalist Paul Tanui was 7th and Imane Merga was 12th. For the women, Ethiopia’s Werknesh Degefa beat Kenya’s Jemima Jelagat by 2 seconds with 1:08:46; Italy’s World marathon silver medalist Valeria Straneo was 6th (1:09:47).
- 2008 Olympic Steeple 4th Placer Ethiopia’s Yacob Jarso Wins Seol Marathon In 2:06:17 Kenya’s Helah Kiprop won for the women in 2:27:29.
- IAAF Recap ODESUR Games (South American Games): Argentine Shot Puttter German Lauro Highlights With 20.70m Win Peru got 2 wins via Inés Melchor in the 5K/10K.
2014 NYC Half – Farah, Mutai And Meb
Nice NYRR Video Where Mo Talks About His Move To 26.2
Clean Or Dirty?
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
LRC Men’s 5,000: Edward Cheserek Does It Again, Stuns Heavy Favorite, Crushes Lalang In Final 300m, Lalang’s Bid For Historic Triple Over Almost Before It Started (updated)Lawi Lalang‘s attempt for wins at the 5K, mile, 3K triple is over almost before it started as Edward Cheserek got a shocking and dominant upset victory in the men’s 5,000. In an honestly-paced race, Cheserek blew away Lalang in the final 300m, winning in 13:46.67 to Lalang’s 13:52.83.
*Cheserek: “My plan was to just relax, stay in the back behind Lawi all the time and with (300) to go I said ‘Okay, I gotta go.'”
On The Boards: Cheserek’s move *Why lawai, why? *And a-a-a-a KING is BORN
LRCMen’s DMR: A Fresh Stanford Team Gets Dominant Victory As Oregon Picks Up More Valuable Team Points In SecondStanford gets dominant victory largely thanks to a ridiculous 400 leg from Australia’s Olympic finalist Steven Solomon as Oregon gets 2nd, Indiana 3rd and Notre Dame 4th.
MB:Micheal Atchoo – A STANFORD HERO! *Atchoos Under Appreciated Anchor Leg *OSU DFL in DMR
Monster Field Event Action:
*Beamonesque: Arkansas’ Jarrion Lawson Has Massive 1.5-Foot PR – Wins LJ With World-Leading 27 Feet, 6½ InchesAnd Cand clears 7-7 1/4 to win HJ He got close when he attempted the CR of 7-9.75.
*Albuquerque Native Curtis Beach Set Up For Heptathlon Title After Strong Day 1
Sprints:Deondre Batson Wins 200m For Alabaman (20.32)
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