New Anti-Doping Test Could Be “1,000 Times More Sensitive” Than Current Tests The new detection method would increase the window drugs could be detected in an athlete’s system as well as be able to detect smaller amounts.

Oscar Pistorius Trial Updates

• Court Hears Of Previous Time When Oscar Pistorius Went Into “Full Combat Mode” When He Thought There Was An Intruder In His House Pistorius even tweeted about the incident back in 2012 when he heard a noise in his house and took out a gun, only to find out it was the washing machine.
• Prosecution Presents Gun Licensing Test Pistorius Passed According to his past test, Pistorius knew you couldn’t shoot an intruder unless your life was in danger.
• Pistorius’ Defense Lawyers Accusing Police Of Mishandling Evidence And Not Following Proper Procedure The police admitted that much of the scene was disturbed before or while being photographed as items (including gun and cricket bat) moved between photos.
• SA Police Face More Embarrassment As It Comes Out That Ballistics Expert Handled Oscar P’s Gun Without Gloves Pistorius’ watch (valued around $5-9 thousand) was apparently stolen during the police investigation.
• Court Sees Graphic Photos Of Pistorius’ Home After Shooting Pistorius vomited for the second time of the trial when photographs of Steenkamp’s face and body were shown accidentally to the court.
• Pistorius’ Bathroom Door Brought Into Courtroom As Evidence The defense and prosecution are arguing whether or not Pistorius’ story is accurate, that he was on his prosthetics when he broke the door down with a cricket bat.

Mo Farah’s Collapse Getting A Ton Of Attention In British Press

• Mo Farah Flies Back To Kenya For Last Pre-London Training Saying He’s Feeling In “Good Shape”
• Steve Cram Says Farah Should “Move On” From Collapse And “Not Worry About It”
• British Media Being Over-Dramatic About Farah’s Collapse: “Mo Farah’s collapse show he faces uphill battle in London.”
• UK Telegraph: Farah’s Collapse Likely To Have Been Due To Low Blood Pressure
• NY Times: Fall Derails Men’s Duel In Half Marathon; Women’s Record Is Set NY Times coverage of the race.

Marathon News

• Ryan Hall’s Agent Says Hall Went To Ethiopia For His Boston Training Training Because He Wanted A Different Setting He didn’t want to stay in Flagstaff, but wanted to still be at altitude. *MB Thread
• Athletics Illustrated Q&A With Moses Mosop Mosop talks about his training, how he feels his 2:03:06 from the 2011 Boston Marathon was legit, and his three children with Florence Kiplagat.
• German Study Finds That Older Marathoners Gain No Heart-Health Advantage For this study, “older” was 50 and up.
• UK Telegraph Asks If Tony “The Fridge” Is The “World’s Most Extreme Marathon Runner?” Tony Morrison runs marathons with a fridge on his back and this year is trying to run four London marathons (104.8 miles) in 24 hours.
  *Video: Tony Teaches Journalist How To Run With Fridge

2014 NYC Half

LRCThere Is No Way It Gets Better Than This: World, Meet Phyllis Francis

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.
*LRC Interviews: Emily Lipari, Stephanie Brown, Shelby Houlian, Cory McGee, Leah O’Connor

Abbey D’Agostino Completes the Double

LRC Women’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.

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 Double Abbey 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!!

LRC Women’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 Classic MB: Duane Solomon Wins In Australia – 1:45.95, LaShawn Merritt 20.42, Lauren Fleshman 15:53.02 Sally 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

Clean Or Dirty?

LRCFemale Track And Field Stars: "Dirty" Or "Clean" Doping Poll Results