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LRCInterview With Chanelle Price After She Joins Sub-2:00 800m Club In Doha

Ritz Moving Back To Michigan

Dathan Ritzenhein Is Leaving Oregon, Going Back to Michigan Ritz and his wife are both Michigan natives and want to go home before the kids get too old. He’ll still be coached by Alberto.
*MB: Ritz is leaving the Oregon Project

Week In Review

WTWBen True, Hassan Mead, Adam Goucher And The Payton Jordan 5,000, Molly Huddle's 30:47, Aisling Cuffe, Elise Cranny And Brannon Kidder

David Epstein: Tyson Gay Got 50% Reduction In Ban Because He Told Everything Including Info on Jon Drummond’s Encouragment/Heavy Involvement of His Doping Drummond is the chair of USATF’s Athletes Advisory Committee and 2012 Olympic relay coach.
*MB: David Epstein Says Tyson Gay Has Implicated Jon Drummond in Helping Him Dope
*Deadspin: Can USATF Coach Jon Drummond Carry Your Drugs?

Big NCAA Conference Weekend *This Week’s Meets *All Conference Results

• Big East Championship Central *Results
• HepsTrack.com *Results *Watch Live (fee)
• Ken Goe Previews Friday’s Oregon Twilight Meet: Mac Fleet Says He Wants To “Knock One Out Of The Park” In The 1,500 *Meet Schedule *Meet Entries Are Here Deep 800 with Elijah Greer, Charles Jock, Cas Loxsom, Mark Wieczorek, Tyler Mulder, Pat Casey, Harun Abda.
• PAC-12s Are Next Weekend: Oregon’s 110h PAC-12 Champ Johnathan Cabral Hasn’t Competed Yet And Oregon Press Wonders Why

Medtronic TC 1 Mile Was Cancelled

• Thursday’s Medtronic TC 1 Mile Cancelled Due To Severe Weather Minneapolis is under Tornado watch and there are forecasts of thunderstorms and lightning.
• Good Interview With Nick Willis Willis plans to try and run a Commonwealth Games qualifier in the 5,000 at Oxy because he thinks he’d really enjoy to be in a tactical 5,000 at a championship meet where it just comes down to the last 400.
• Welsh Indoor Mile Record Holder (3:57.29) Chris Gowell Was Supposed To Race TC 1 Mile – Says He’s Training A Lot Better This Year After He Stopped Obsessing About Mileage Gowell: “I’ve been working on self-doubt and general attitude in race situations. I hate racing, it’s awful. However, on the off-chance of a good race, it becomes worth it, until the inevitable misery of losing.”

• RW Looks At The Rise Of Skechers, Whose Stock Is Rising Partially Thanks To Meb Keflezighi’s Boston Win Before Boston, Skechers was selling at $35.29 on the NY Stock Exchange and now it’s up to t $40.42 a share.
• Lolo Jones Talks About The First Meet In The New American Track League Series, Where She Was Swarmed By Fans On The Track After Her Race “Track has that very stiff feeling of, ‘There’s the track, they’re on the track, I can’t get on the track, so I’ll stand on the side.’ I would have been mobbed like that at Drake [Relays], if they’d allowed them on the track. But they don’t allow that.”
• Hassan Mead Talks About Being Overlooked Before His 13:02 At Payton Jordan “It’s funny, I think a lot of people forgot how well I was running last year [he ran 13:15 and 13:11]. But at the same time, I said, ‘That’s all right.’ I have been healthy and training well. I knew I was going to perform well.”
• NBC Universal Pays $7.75 Billion For Olympic Broadcasting Rights Through 2032

More From The Anniversary Of Bannister’s Sub-4

• Good Piece From The New Yorker: Roger Bannister’s Four-Minute Mile Turns Sixty Bannister on having just enough to go sub-4 the first time: “I would have collapsed if someone wasn’t there to hold me.”
• Do You Know What Woman Ran The First Sub-5 Minute Mile? 23 Days After Roger Bannister Ran 3:59, Diane Leather Ran 4:59.6 She eventually got down to 4:45.0.
• Roger Bannister Says He Believes A 3:30 Mile Is Possible
• Telegraph Looks At The Drop In World Record-Breaking Performances Since Roger Bannister’s Time, When They Went Down All The Time Maximizing human potential, cleaner sport, technological advances maxed out given as reasons.

60 Years Ago History Was Made – May 6, 1954

• 60 Years Ago – May 6, 1954 – Roger Bannister 1st Broke 4:00 “I’m slow and need help walking but I’m taking it with a proper sense of perspective. … At 85 I have had many opportunities. I also have many friends and a very supportive family. These are all things I bless myself for.”
• Sir Roger Bannister Plays The Record Predictions Game Again On Eve Of 60th Anniversary Of His Four-Minute Mile He thinks we’ll see a sub-2 in the marathon.
• Bannister Vs. Landy: Was That The Commonwealth Games’ Finest Moment? 3 months after the first sub-4, the first man to break four minutes (Bannister) took on the man who already had broken Bannister’s record (Landy). *The Miracle Mile Race Video: Bannister Vs. Landy *Bannister And Landy Talk About 1954 Miracle Mile
• Should Roger Bannister Have Been DQed In First Sub-4 60 Years Ago As Pacing Was Illegal?