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Quote Of The Day

“We have three or four jumpers on 2.40m or over. The world record could go any time this summer, but it is hard to say who is going to make it. It’s really hard to predict.”

– Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim talking about how we’re in a “golden age” of high jumping as there are 5 guys (led by Ukraine’s Bohdan Bondarenko and Russia’s Ivan Ukhov) competing right now who have jumped 2.40m or higher. The Doha HJ was one of the deepest ever as never before had four men cleared 2.37m in the same meet. Could Cuba’s Javier Sotomayor‘s 2.45m WR from 1993 go down this year?

Prague Marathon: Mosop Flops

Patrick Terer And Firehiwot Dado Are Victorious At The 2014 Prague Marathon Terer ran 2:08:07 to beat Evans Chebet by 10 seconds. Cuthbert Nyasango was 3rd in a Zimbabwe NR of 2:09:52. Moses Mosop had a disappointing race, running 2:20:37 for 12th. 2011 NYC champ Dado dominated the women’s race in 2:23:34.
Short Statement From Moses Mosop “My body felt empty from the start. Not enough speedwork was done due to an injury and I will have new start after some rest.”

HS / Youth News

10-Year-Old Grace Ping From Minnesota Breaks Age Group WR For 5K With 18:02 She beat the previous record by 40 seconds.
Results From Loucks Games In NY: Dan Curtis (8:51.24) 3,200 As 4 Go Sub-8:55Olivia Baker beat strong 800 field in 2:08.42.
MileSplit Coverage Of Texas State Meet: Devante Lacy Runs 46.10 400; Brandon Bray Clears 17’8.50″ PV

Ken Goe Says Oregon Track Fans Aren’t Happy With The Lack Of Action At Hayward Field During The Regular Season The home schedule has been toned down compared to the past as they only had one scored meet at home and for their other home meets a lot of top runners didn’t compete or competed elsewhere.

Seb Coe Speaks On Rio 2016 Prep And Says IOC Won’t Let Them Fail

Day 1 Conference Coverage: Heps / Big East

Heps:Day 1 Heps Recap: Harvard Men Lead Team Standings It was close in the men’s 10K as Penn’s Thomas Awad ran 29:26.13 to beat Harvard’s James Leakos (29:26.83).
*Day 1 Heps Recap: Princeton Women Lead Team StandingsAbbey D’Agostino made her 10k debut, winning in a comfortable 33:10 over Princeton’s Megan Curham (33:24) and Cornell’s Rachel Sorna (33:36).
*HepsTrack Short Play-By-Play From Men’s And Women’s 10ks
Big East: Big East Day 1 Recap: Villanova Women, Georgetown Men Lead

Non-Distance Stuff From Doha

HJ One Of The Deepest Ever As Never Before Had Four Men Cleared 2.37m In The Same Meet Russia’s Olympic champ Ivan Ukhov won in 2.41m; only 2 men have ever gone higher.
Sprint/Field Recap: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Just Beats Blessing Okagbare To Win 100, LaShawn Merrit Gets The 400 W, Nickel Ashmeade Over Warren Weir In 200
Valerie Adams’ Win In Doha Is Her 47th In A Row
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US News: 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
Athletics Illustrated Q&A With Andrew Bumbalough He says he’s been dealing with an injury which is why he underperformed at Payton Jordan.
DQed OC Marathon Winner Mohamed Fadil Says He Didn’t Cheat And Will “Defend” His Title Next Year Fadil was DQed because his friend paced him on a bike, but says that his friend only started biking with him after the official lead biker got a flat tire and had to stop.
Vin Lananna Says Oregon Is In Good Shape As They Prepare To Host This Summer’s World Junior Championship

Down Goes Drummond?

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

Golden GP Tokyo: Jenny Simpson W/ 1,500 WL

IAAF Recap Seiko Golden Grand Prix In Tokyo: Jenny Simpson Wins In A World-Leading 4:03.91; Emma Coburn Well Beaten 2nd In 4:07.49 Japan’s Sho Kawamoto won the 800 in 1:45.75 as Erik Sowinski was 3rd (1:46.38) and Ukraine’s Bohdan Bondarenko cleared 2.40m in the HJ to beat Russia’s Ivan Ukhov. Other winners included Justin Gatlin in the 100 (10.02 into a headwind), Brianna Rollins the 100H in 12.62, Kirani James the 200 (20.63).
*Full Results
*Video Of Bondarenko’s 2.40 As Well As His Failed WR Attempt
*Russia’s Darya Klishina Gets LJ World Lead In LJ With 6.88m

More Distance News

Taoufik Makhloufi Announces New Coach The 2012 Olympic 1,500 champ recently left Jama Aden and will now be coached by Ali Redjimi, who he worked with from ages 14 to 20.
Saturday Was Declared “Meb Day” In San Diego To Honor Meb Keflezighi And His Boston Win
Leo Manzano Will Headline 2014 Adrian Martinez Classic In New England On June 5th

US Road Action: US 25K & UAE 10K

Christo Landry Ties American Record To Win At USA 25K Championships; Kellyn Johnson Gets Women’s TitleSamson Gebreyohannes Gezaha won the overall race in 1:14:08 as Landry ran 1:14:18 to tie Mo Trafeh‘s AR and take 2nd overall. Chris Solinsky was 3rd American, 5th overall (1:16:44). Johnson won in 1:25:26.
*Men’s Video Highlights
*Women’s Video Highlights
*Full Results
Stephen Sambu Crushes Road 10K WR Holder Leonard Komon To Win UAE Healthy Kidney 10-K Sambu ran 27:39 to Komon’s 28:17. Sambu also just missed the 8K WR along the way. Joyce Chepkirui won the women’s race in 31:17.
*Full Results
Sergio Reyes And Amanda Scott Win Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon

Other News

Hellen Obiri And Mercy Cherono Think They Can Challenge Wang Junxia’s 8:06 3,000 “World Record”
Despite Rumor, IOC Says “Totally Unfeasible” For London To Step In For Rio As 2016 Olympics Host An IOC source said the rumor that London could host instead of Rio is “total rubbish.”
Oscar Pistorius Sells Home Where He Shot Girlfriend In Order To Pay His Increasing Legal Fees

Non-Doha Results

Alumni Highlight Oregon Twilight Results: Ashton Eaton Wins 110H In 13.47Ben Blankenship won the 1,500 in 3:39.33 over Jordan McNamara (3:39.40) and Mac Fleet (3:40.00). Harun Abda won the 800 (1:47.33) over Cas Loxsom (1:47.47). *Full Results
*Blankenship Was Supposed To Run The TC 1 Mile, But When It Was Cancelled, He Flew Back To Oregon At The Last Minute He won over Jordan McNamara and Mac Fleet.
Inspirational: Blind High Schooler Charlotte Brown Almost Medals In Texas State Champs She cleared 11 feet to tie for 4th place. She used to have partial vision, but now has to vault completely blind and said, “… The bright side is, I’m already totally blind. I don’t have to figure out another way to vault. I can’t get any blinder.”
A Deeper Look At The Weather Issues That Cancelled The Medtronic TC 1 Mile Some of the elites tried to move the race to an indoor or outdoor track, but weren’t able to.

More Upcoming

Elise Cranny And Alexa Efraimson To Clash In HS Girls Dream Mile At 2014 adidas GP In NYC
2012 Boston Winner Wesley Korir Leads Best-Ever Field At May 25th Ottawa Marathon 2:06:13 man Korir faces 2:04:38 2012 Rotterdam champ Yemane Tsegay, Bazu Worku (2:05:25). 2:23:39 woman Ehitu Kiros leads the women’s field. Korir says he has a “bodyguard” who is a 2:06 guy.

Medtronic TC 1 Mile Was Cancelled

Thursday’s Medtronic TC 1 Mile Cancelled Due To Severe Weather
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

Sprints / Jumps

RIP: US Olympic Sprinter Frank Budd Dies At 74 Budd was the former WR holder at the 100 yard dash (9.2 seconds) and finished 5th at the 1960 Rome Olympics. *MB:This Budds for you.
IAAF: Ivan Ukhov Leading The Way To High Jump’s New Golden Age Could Cuba’s Javier Sotomayor‘s 2.45m WR from 1993 go down this year?
1993 World Indoor 60m Medalists Were Reunited In DohaBruny Surin of Canada, Frank Fredericks from Namibia and Talal Mansour of Qatar.

2014 Diamond League Doha Results NewWatch Diamond League (And Soccer) On Demand/Live

LRCAsbel Kiprop Runs 3:29.18 To Win “A Classic” 1,500m To Kick Off Diamond League

Asbel Kiprop, Silas Kiplagat, Makhloufi and Wote produced a “classic” and “astonishing” 1,500 to start the season. The Ethiopian national record was set and it only got 6th place.

What a Race #2:Mo Aman And Nijel Amos Wage A Thriller – Aman Wins By The Tiniest Of Margins

The 1.75-year wait for for young studs Mo Aman and Nijel Amos to race each other was worth it. Read all about and watch the race.

LRCChanelle Price Goes Sub-2:00 As Eunice Sum Wins Battle Of World Champions

Eunice Sum got the win in the battle of world champions as Chanelle Pricewent sub-2:00 and Molly Beckwith improved.

LRCInterview With Chanelle Price After She Joins Sub-2:00 Club

Email interview with the breakout 2014 800m star.

Greatest W 3k Ever?Hellen Obiri Runs 8:20.68 To Stun Dibaba As EIGHT Women Run 8:30.00 Or Better

Was this the greatest women’s 3.000m race ever run?
*Dibaba On Her 6th-Place 3K Finish: “I don’t know what went wrong.”

*Reuters Recap This was a tremendous track meet. Best one we’ve seen in ages. Raucous crowd and incredible performances.

International Weekend Action

Jo Pavey (32:11) And Andy Vernon (28:26) Win British 10K Titles At Highgate Night Of The 10,000 PBs In her comeback from pregnancy Pavey beat a competitive field that included start European XC runners Sophie Duarte and Fionnuala Britton.
*Pavey Talks About Returning To Competitive Racing 8 Months After Having Her Second Child “To be honest I’d be happy to be at this stage in my training in May even if I wasn’t coming back from having a baby.”
Kenyan Johana Maina Wins Sendai Half Marathon In 1:01:43 As Yui Okada Took The Women’s Title In 1:11:27Yuki Kawauchi was 4th in 1:03:23.
Alice Chelang’a Kimetto (2:17:20) And Felix Kipchirchir Kandie (2:39:10) Win Kericho International Marathon
Recap Of SA Open Championships
Japanese Track Highlights From Golden Games In Nobeoka
Valerie Adams Has An Injury Scare Ahead Of The Commonwealth Games As She’s Dealing With A Shoulder Injury In Her Non-Throwing Arm

International: London 2016?!?!?!?

Lonodn 2016? IOC Makes “Secret” Plan To Use London As A Backup Plan For 2016 Olympics If Rio Falls Through A source said: “At a comparable planning stage in 2004 Athens had done 40 per cent of preparations on infrastructure, stadiums and so on. London had done 60 per cent. Brazil has done 10 per cent …”
RIP Spanish LJer Yago Lamela, Who Has Died At 36
*Lamela Had Suffered From Depression And Had Been Admitted To A Psychiatric Clinic In The Past

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

Our crack stats team gives you the lowdown on Stanford's fast times. How do Ben True and Hassan Mead compare to Adam Goucher and Galen Rupp? Will there be a slew of sub 13:00 Americans in 2014? Plus, some fast times from Aisling Cuffe and teen star Elise Cranny. The performance of the week was Molly Huddle's 30:47 10k. And some props for Brannon Kidder.