Archived Homepage For May 04, 2014
Archived Homepage For May 04, 2014

LRCTyson Gay Gets A One-Year Drug Ban For Cooperating With USADA, Admits He Cheated At 2012 Olympics, Many Questions Remain

Gay did admit to doping at the 2012 Olympics (the US will lose its 4 x 100 silver medals), but not the Olympic Trials.

Random Distance News

Distance News: Ryan Hall Speaks

 More On Rutherford LJ Controversy 

Olympic 1,500 Champion Taoufik Makhloufi Leaves His Coach, Jama Aden Makhloufi (who is also leaving his manager) said it was an amicable break. He has been training in Kenya, apparently at times with Mo Farah. Other athletes in Aden’s group include Genzebe Dibaba and Ayanleh Souleiman.
*MB:Toufik Makhloufi left Jama Aden to Alberto Salazar?

Meb Still Making News

A MUST READ: The Inside Story: How Did Meb Get Far Enough Ahead To Win 2014 Boston? Toni ReavisTells You Reavis has the scoop of what went on in the top African pack.

60-Year Anniversary Of Bannister’s Sub-4 Is Tuesday

Sunday Is Stanford And More *Stanford Entries

Stanford Is Sunday Night: Full Preview Of Sunday’s Payton Jordan Invite

New Champions And Nearly $100,000 On The Line At Bloomsday

World Half runner-up Mary Wacera headlines the field that has six sub-63:00 half men, including Aaron Braun, Shadrack Biwott and Ben Bruce.

Did USATF Get Ripped Off?

Preview Of Weekend Track Action *All NCAA Coverage

Lawyers For Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Concerned They Won’t Be “Adequately Prepared” For November Trial The defense team wants to receive the prosecution’s pre-trial materials earlier.

#67Days #Transparency

LRCDQGate Gets Interesting: Gabriele Grunewald DQ Footage From US Indoor Women's 3,000 Mistakenly Leaked By USATF

Update From USATF: Report On 3k DQs Coming In June It doesn’t take 4 months to acknowledge Andrew Bumbalough was DQed improperly.

Dusseldorf And Other Road News *Photo Gallery

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LRCAmerican Strong: The Untold Story Of American Teamwork And How Ryan Hall Helped Meb Win Boston American Meb Keflezighi rightfully got the glory but his American competitors helped him out. The untold story of American Strong.

“Best article I’ve ever read I believe.” – @GreccoCole
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Dick Patrick – Meb Strong: How Meb Worked His Magic Once Again Meb once again pulled it off, when very few thought he could. Dick Patrick tells us how the deserving champ did it.

Spice Up Your Saturday – Track Doesn’t Have To Be Boring *American Track League Results

Extensive Q&A With US’s World Indoor 60m Silver Medalist Marvin Bracy Marvin talks about his career from high school through winning silver at Worlds.

Week That Was

LRCMeb Has Won Boston, Emails From Meb’s Brother And Ryan Hall’s Mom, Rita Jeptoo, Sub-5 Beer Mile, Annie Bersagel, Drake, Penn And MoreMeb, Meb, Meb: We break down Meb’s amazing win at Boston and Rita Jeptoo‘s finish. Plus, emails from Ryan Hall’s mom, Meb’s brother, some praise for Dan O’Brien, a sub-5 beer mile, Annie Bersagel joins the sub-2:30 club, and some tremendous pro action at Drake.

Doping: Liliya Shobukhova Goes Down

Distance News

Haile G’s Masters Marathon World Record Attempt In Hamburg Is Off As He Pulls Out Due To Pollen Allergies
*LRCWorld Record Holder Andres Espinosa Of Mexico To Be Guest Of Hamburg Marathon Espinosa’s masters world record of 2:08:46 was going to be no easy feat for Geb, as it is the best Masters World Record in all of track according to the IAAF tables.