Quote Of The Day
– Mo Farah accurately describing what he’s attempting to do on Sunday. The 3:28 1,500 runner is taking on the world’s best over 42.2 km in a race that seems like a real-life version of fantasy track and field.
Get Excited – London Is Sunday *Live streaming/TV & Replay Info (Men’s Race Starts at 5am Eastern) *Full Elite Fields *Results *Lots Of Great Video Interviews *Full Coverage: 2014 London Marathon Special Section
MB:Renato Canova Makes His Predictions“I think possible to see 2-3 athletes under 2:04 at the end of the race. … If the race can follow this development, I think Mo can’t have any chance for going on the podium.”
MB:Inside info on 2014 London Marathon Pacing – Mo, Jeilan and Kiprotich are in ‘slow group’
LRCFantasy Track On The Streets Of London – 2014 London Marathon Men’s Preview – A Race For The AgesOH BABY WHAT A RACE!!! This one reads almost like fantasy track. Something has to give as it features the fastest man in history Geoffrey Mutai, the world record holder Wilson Kipsang, world junior record holder Tsegaye Mekonnen,the defending champ Tsegaye Kebede, past champ Emmanuel Mutai, the Olympic and world champ Stephen Kiprotich, the debuts of Mo Farah and Ibrahim Jeilan. We break it down for you. *IAAF: “Best Ever” Field
*Mo Farah: “Winning would be the greatest thing I’ve ever achieved.”
*Haile G Bold Prediction: “Kebede is the one to beat, no question.”
*LRCSorry, Mo Farah Fans: Five Reasons Why Mo Isn’t Winning The 2014 Virgin London Marathon
US Distance News
Boston Is Next Week: Shalane Flanagan Is Ready: “I don’t think I could ask for better training.”
*Flanagan’s Training Will Be Part Of “60 Minutes” Feature On Boston This Weekend
Ken Goe Agrees With Haile G – Track And Field Is Boring
*As Does Toni Reavis In case you missed Haile G’s comments, they are here.
More Sprint/Jump/Field News
- Stanford’s Steven Solomon And Coach Jody Stewart Are Thrilled With Fact He Recently Broke Stanford School Record By Running 45.36 In Australia He did of course run 44.95 in HS.
- It’s Been An Incredible 6 Months For New Zealand’s Tom Walsh He’s gone from missing the Moscow “B” standard by 1 cm to winning Worlds bronze.
- Q&A With Christian Taylor “I’m done beating myself up and the whole mentality is to just go out there, have some fun and find the old Christian again.”
More Distance News
- Haile Gebrselassie Worried About The Future Of Track And Field And About Athletes Moving To The Marathon Too Early Geb: “Athletics has to change a little bit, bring in new ideas, new concepts – otherwise it’s going to be a just a bit boring to watch. I don’t know how many people are interested in just watching running for two hours …”
- Columbia University Alum Lisa Sublic Set Croatia 10,000 NR Last Weekend Winning Her National Champs In 33:17.91 Her training is focused on the marathon at this summer’s European Champs.
More London News
Mo Farah Ahead Of Marathon Debut: “For me, in terms of my ability and setting myself a target, my main target is going after the British record (2:07:13). But I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t believe I could win.” Talking about Kenenisa Bekele‘s debut, he said, “It gives me good confidence and makes me think if Bekele can do it, why can’t I do it?”- Video Highlights From Mo Farah’s Pre-London Press Conference Q&A
Women’s Race
Preview: Priscah Jeptoo Tries To Defend Against A Loaded Field As Dibaba Debuts The women’s field features reigning London and New York champ Priscah Jeptoo is the favorite but don’t tell that to world half marathon record holder Florence Kiplagat, reigning world champ Edna Kiplagat, reigning Olympic champ Tiki Gelana or the greatest 10,000 runner in history Tirunesh Dibaba.
*Dave Bedford’s Preview
*Tirunesh Dibaba Is Ready For Her Debut – “I’ve trained intensively for five months. It makes me quite confident for this marathon. I am ready.”
*Two-Time World Champ Edna Kiplagat Not Worried About Tirunesh Dibaba’s Debut “(The) marathon is four times bigger than her 10,000m speciality.”
Pro Track News
- Q&A With Kate Grace, Who Has Left Gags To Move West
- Zarck Visser Jumps 8.31 On Day 1 Of South African Champs – Simon Magakwe Nearly Breaks 10.00 The big news, though, is that Simon Magakwe might be the first sub-10 guy in SAfrican history as he ran 10.07 in the semis and says his coach has dreamed 3 times he’ll run 9.87.
- Good Read:Kim Collins Says Drug Cheats Must “Man Up ” And Accept Responsibility
- Public Reaction To Powell’s 18-Month Ban
- Q&A With Welsh Mountain Runner Andrew Davies, Who Qualified For Commonwealths Last Week With A 2:17 Marathon
- Kirani James Running 400 At Altitude At UTEP This Weekend
Oscar P Gets Grilled On Stand – Game, Set, Match?
- Friday: Pistorius Is On The Ropes: Prosecutor Rattles Pistorius So Badly And He Makes So Many “Mistakes” On Stand, Judge Asks Him If He’s Too Tired To Continue Judge: “It is important that you should be ‘all here’ when you are in that witness box. If you are tired and the reason you are making all these mistakes is because you are tired you must say so. It doesn’t help to say it’s not going to change.” *ESPN
- Thursday:Prosecutor Nicknamed “The Pitbull” Goes After Oscar, Forces Oscar To Look At “Exploded” Head Of Reeva Steenkamp – “Have a look there. I know you don’t want to because you don’t want to take responsibility.”
Prosecutor Tries To Get Oscar To Admit He Lied About Going Out On Balcony As Photos Clearly Show It Was Blocked By A Fan Oscar claims the police altered the crime scene.- Prosecutor Goes After Oscar P: “You blame anybody but yourself.”
- Prosecutor Mocks Pistorius’ Version Of Events He even broke into laughter when Oscar suggested that two witnesses who said they once saw him shoot out of a car sunroof had collaborated and fabricated their accounts.
- Pistorius: Never Told “Reeva that I loved her.”
Leo Signs With Hoka One One And Gets A New Coach
LRCLeo Manzano Talks Excitedly About The Future, His New Deal With Hoka One One And His New Coach - John Hayes
US Olympic 1,500m silver medalist Leo Manzano not only finally has a sponsor (Hoka One One) and a new agent (Merhawi Keflezighi), but he revealed today via teleconference he has a new coach- John Hayes. The US star can now focus on what he does best- race.
Previous LRC:Leo Finds A Sponsor (And An Agent) – Signs Multi-Year Deal With Hoka One One
MB:Leo Manzano signs with Hoka One One
Sprint News From Jamaica
- Sherone Simpson’s Agent Paul Doyle Slams Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel For “Harsh Ban” He also criticized the lack of explanation and how long the overall process has taken (9 months).
- Glen Mills Happy With Yohan Blake’s Comeback From Hamstring Injury That Kept Him Out All Last Year Mills: “Yohan is over the injury. I think both mentally and physically, and he has been training very well, and he looks like he is going to be back on top of his game.”
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Will Miss This Weekend’s UTech Classic As Well As Penn Relays She was advised by “her medical team” to take 2 weeks rest.
- Recap Of Day 1 Of Jamaican Junior High Champs
Results Are In: Sherone Simpson Banned
Sherone Simpson Given 18-Month Ban For Doping By Jamaican Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel Her agent has said that they will appeal the decision to CAS. It was also announced that Olympic discus thrower Allison Randall was suspended for two years. Asafa Powell tested positive under the same circumstances as Simpson and will hear his ruling Thursday.
Rotterdam is Sunday and is on at 4:30 am ET for free.
This Weekend’s NCAA Track Action *All Weekend NCAA Results
- 120th Stanford-Cal “Big Meet” Headlines Busy Week Of Collegiate Action
- Q&A With Elaina Balouris And Emily Stites Of William & Mary
- Daily Relay: This Weekend’s Best Matchups
2014 Aracadia HS Is Fri./Saturday *FREE LIVE Webcast/Schedule/Results (G 3,200 Is Sat. At 11:40PM ET)*Meet Site
- Will Alexa Efraimson Take Down Kim Mortensen’s 1996 Record Of 9:48.59? Efraimson ran 9:00 indoors for 3k, so we expect to get it but she’ll have to beat Sarah Baxter to do it.
- Recommended Read: Ammar Moussa On The Magic Of The Arcadia 3,200 – The 2011 Boys 3,200 Member Writes About Being Left Out Of The Arcadia Freshman Race But Winning It All As A Senior
- HS News From Japan:Coach Who Led Toyokawa Kogyo Boys To The National High School Ekiden Championships For 14 Straight Years Through 2011 Transfers Schools And 8 Boys Go With Him
More London News Also In Our Special Section
- Pre-Race Presser: Interesting: Neither Geoffrey Mutai Nor Stephen Kiprotich Think Mo Farah Should Be Running London 2014 They use different rationales.
- Wilson Kipsang: “If the pacemakers do a good job until 30k, there is every possibility of a world record.”
- Steve Jones Thinks Mo Farah Could Shatter His 2:07:13 Record Jones: “I’m just a journeyman runner compared with Mo. I don’t see why he shouldn’t have the same kind of confidence.”
- British Training Partners Scott Overall And Chris Thompson Both Hoping For Sub-2:10 This Weekend Overall suprisingly debuted at 2:10:55 a few years ago, whereas Thompson is debuting this weekend.
- Tirunesh Dibaba Is Ready For Her Debut – “I’ve trained intensively for five months. It makes me quite confident for this marathon. I am ready.”
- Good Read: Toni Reavis – Having Rabbits In London Ruins The Whole Excitement Of Racing We 100% agree that most marathons should not have rabbits.
More Coverage In Our 2014 London Marathon Special SectionLondon's Not The Only Marathon This Weekend
- “Old School” Eliud Kipchoge And His Training Mates Bernard Koech And Bernard Kipyego Are Ready To Rock Rotterdam The former 5,000 medalist has moved to the marathon with great success by following a simple formula – a long run each week that alternates between 30km and 42 km. “I do one long run every week, that’s all. … The marathon is not about magic. It is all about mentality. You have to prepare very well and you have to focus, and I believe that a long experience on the track and in the cross is the best way to run a fast marathon,” commented Kipchoge.
- Hand Him The Gold Now Eliud Kipchoge Says He Wants To Run Commonwealth Games After Rotterdam
- Poland’s Lodz Marathon Is Expecting Its First Sub-2:10 In History This Weekend
Week That Was
LRCKenenisa Proves He Can Handle 26.2, The Netherlands' Version Of Jordan Hasay, Motivation From The Webbs, And A World Record Holder Is Spotted From The Side Of The Road?
This week we tell you what we think about Kenenisa Bekele's 2:05:03, highlight some great sprint action in Florida (Dedric Dukes 19.97 and a tremendous 4 x 400), talk about how potential world record talent is so big it can be spotted on the side of the road, get motivation from Alan Webb's wife Julia, introduce USATF malcontents to a story about a controversy avoided with Athletics Canada, and introduce you to the Dutch version of Jordan Hasay.
US Pro News
Kara Goucher Out With Sacral Stress Fracture She says her training had been going well and she was dreaming of running a sub-31 10K and sub-15 5K this summer.
*MB Thread- Alberto Salazar Says Mary Cain Is Healthy And Talks About Her 2014 Racing Schedule
- Phoebe Wright Blogs: Is “Professional Runner” Code For “Unemployed”? While potential employers might hear pro runners and think “unemployed,” Wright explains how it really means “168-hour weeks” running her own small business.
- Heather Kampf And World Indoor 1,500 Bronze Medalist Nicole Sifuents Headline May 8th Medtronic TC 1 Mile
- IAAF “Work, Rest And Play” Q&A With US High Jumper Brigetta Barrett Barrett talks about her life as an athlete and her other big passion/talent in life, singing. She also reveals that she is a twin.
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