May 19, 2014 | LetsRun.com

Diamond League #2 – Shanghai DL Was Sunday Full Results TV/Streaming Info

LRC Miss The Meet? You Can Watch The Meet In Its Entirety On Deman For Free In US Legally (Free For 48 Hours) Or For $10/Month

WSteeple: LRC Emma Coburn Pulls A Meb: Gaps The Field Early, Runs PR And Stunningly Wins The Steeple In her first steeple of the year, Coburn was brilliant as she ran a PR and got a convincing victory.
*Emma Coburn pulls a Meb – gaps field early and shockingly wins Shanghai DL *EMMA MF COBURN!!!

W1,500: LRC Abeba Aregawi Wins In 3:58, Jenny Simpson Nearly Breaks 4:00, Runs Second-Fastest Time Of Her Career Not a great day for Treniere Moser and Morgan Uceny. *4:00.4 for Jenny Simpson – Incredibly smart race!!

#EPICFail M800: LRC Taoufik Makhloufi Sticks Out Tongue And Arms Celebrating His 800m “Win” And Loses As A Result Makhloufi snatched defeat from the jaws of victory as an emerging star, Robert Biwott, arrived from Kenya. The Americans Johnson, Mulder and Sowinski, all struggled. *Hahahah MackDaddy LOSES while celebrating!!!! *Makhloufi What a Jackass

M5k: LRC Yenew Alamirew Closes In 53 To Win Men’s 5,000 After this one, we were left wondering, “How did this guy only get 9th in Moscow last summer?”

IAAF Full Meet Recap: Blessing Okagbare Wins Long Jump And 200, But Chinese Hurdler Xie Wenjun Steals Show Justin Gatlin was incredible and Lavillenie had a world leader.

Shanghai Flash Reaction On The Message Board: Official 2014 Shanghai Diamond League Discussion Thread *Justin Gatlin wins Men’s 100m

Full Coverage, Including Pre-Meet News, Can Be Found In Our Shanghai Diamond League Special Section

2014 Oxy HP Complete Coverage MB Thread Video *2014 Results

LRC Men: Collis Birmingham Stuns Galen Rupp; Centro Cruises; Elijah Greer Beats Robby Andrews At His Own Game; Dan Huling 8:17 It was a real late night for people staying up on the East Coast but they were jolted awake in the very last race of the night.
LRC Women: Brenda Martinez Edges Maggie Vessey As Both Break 2:00; Shannon Rowbury Wins As Jordan Hasay PRs; Kate Van Buskirk PRs
LIVE THREAD: Official 2014 Oxy HP Performance Thread – Rupp, Centro, Willis, Martinez, and Mackey, and more!
MB Reaction: Collis MF Birmingham- outkicks Rupp at Oxy HP 5K! *Yes or no: Did you enjoy it when you saw Birmingham blow by Rupp?? *800 craziness – Elijah Greer pulls an Andrews and outkicks Andrews *Loved Watching Martinez and Vessey *VESSEY IS BACK BABY! *Brenda MF Martinez 159.91 Negative split!! *Who in god’s name put Jordan McNamara in heat #2

More Non-Oxy Weekend Pro Action

Preview Of Saturday’s Ponce Grand Prix: Duane Solomon In 800 Against Puerto Rican Record Holder Wesley Vazquez LaShawn Merritt vs. Luguelin Santos and Jeremy Wariner in the 400, Javier Culson in the 400H.
Japan Running News Track Weekend Preview: Kanto Regionals Lead Five Championship Meets

Thursday AM News Flash

Finally: Boulder-Based Dutch Distance Runner Adrienne Herzog Provisionally Suspended After Testing Positive For Testosterone Herzog has long been linked to drug use which caused Brad Hudson to end his coaching relationship with her last year.
*Good Detailed Look Into Herzog’s Link To Doping Over The Years (translated from Dutch, link fixed)
*MB: Adrienne Herzog busted for testo again
Judge In Oscar Pistorius Case Orders Pistorius To Be Evaluated At A State Mental Health Institution If you thought the trial would be over soon, guess again. This will halt the trial for 30 days.

Jamaica News: No Bolt On World Relays Squad

Yohan Blake And Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Lead Jamaican Squads For World Relay Champs As expected, no Usain Bolt. Other top names include Warren Weir, Nickel Ashmeade and Natoya Goule. *Full Squad List
Usain Bolt Will Make Season Debut At Ostrava Golden Spike Meet On June 17th
Yohan Blake Says He’s In Good Fitness And That Glen Mills Says He Looks Like His “Old Self”

More Weekend Pro Action

Bupa Great Run: London Winner K Bekele Blows Wison Kipsang’s Doors Off In Final 500, T. Dibaba Wins In 31:09 Bekele won by 5 seconds in 28:23 and then said he isn’t sharp enough for the Prefontaine 10,000.
Ponce GP: Results: Duane Solomon (1:44.79) Beats Vazquez, Abda, Jock, Loxsom, Torrence, Wieczorek – Gabriele Grunewald Wins The 3k
*Recap: LaShawn Merritt Runs World-Leading 44.14; Ibarguen Wins 13th Straight TJ With 14.87m
13.1: Bedan Karoki Upsets Zersenay Tadese At Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon Tadese ran 61:34 for second.

Conference Champs *Conference Champs Central

Big 12: *Results *LRC Courtney Okolo, Texas Sophomore, Sets New NCAA 400 Record Of 50.03 At Big 12 Meet *MB: Trayvon Bromell goes 9.77 windy at Big 12s!!! The sprint action was absurd.
*Texas Tech Men And Kithuka Get Job Done And Win First Title Since 2005 The Texas women dominated the women’s competition.
MB: Kennedy Kithuka lapped the entire men’s 10k field 9 laps into the race, wins by 1:39 – Official 2014 Big 12 Discussion Thread Lapping the entire field in a power conference? Has it ever been done before? What about doing it just 9 laps into the race?
PAC-12s: *Results *Oregon Men Win By 60+, Women By 30+ At PAC-12s Before Crowd Of 1,100
*MB: He’s not done yet: Lawi Lalang 3:36.34 over Cheserek 3:36.50 at Pac 12s!! *SHELBY MF HOULIHAN, takes down AISLING CUFFE in Pac 12 5k *Eric Jenkins pac10 5k *How is it ok for CU to finish DFL at Pac12s?
Big 10: *Results *Podium Sweep In 5k And 10k Powers Wisco Men To Big Ten Title *Penn State Women Take 2014 Big Tens *MB: ERIN FINN – BIG TEN RECORD 10K *MB: Wisco boys 1-2-3 In 10k!! Let the domination begin – Official 2014 Big Ten Outdoor Discussion Thread

SEC: *Results *Texas A&M, Arkansas Win SEC Outdoor Championships *Texas A&M Release Deon Lendore ran a 44.16 in the 400. Race Video *MB: Official 2014 SEC Outdoors Discussion Thread
IC4A/ECAC: Results

Great City Games Manchester Were Saturday & Bupa Great Manchester Run (Bekele Vs. Kipsang) Is Sunday *Full Results GreatCity Games

Yohan Blake Fails To Break Usain Bolt’s 150m Record Of 14.35 – Runs 14.71, Rutherford Over Tomlinson In LJ, Richard Kilty Just 3rd In 100 (10.19) *Race Video
Yohan Blake Says Warmup Facilities Weren’t Good Or He Could Have Broken The WR – Commits To Commonwealth Games “I’m feeling in great shape but the warm-up facilities were not good. I feel I could have got that record but I had to make sure I came away injury-free.”

Paula's Swan Song

Paula Radcliffe Targeting 2015 London Marathon For Career Swan Song “I guess in a way it’s me being greedy as I just want to finish my career on my own terms.”

Jenny Simpson, Mary Cain And Morgan Uceny Headline adidas GP 1,500 In NYC On June 14

Pretty Cool Pole Vault Trick Video By Joel Pocklington

US Mid-D News

Will Leer Talks About His Run-In With USATF 3 Months Before World Indoors Leer had questions about the Jesse Owens award and whether athletes with past doping suspensions should be eligible to receive it. Apparently he was mostly ignored and eventually reprimanded by Max Siegel.
*Full House Of Run Podcast With Leer
Alberto Salazar: “Mary Cain is completely healthy and training very well (for two months!).”

Other Distance News

Quick Q&A With Prolific Marathoner Yuki Kawauchi, Who Says He Wants To Keep Racing For The Rest Of His Life
18-Year-Old From Indiana Is Youngest To Have Run A Half Marathon In All 50 States Ryan Betz has raised more than $40,000 to create an endowment allowing inner-city students to attend a private high school.
2:17 Irishman Sean Hehir Thrilled To Have Qualified For European Champs And Is Looking Forward To Defending His Dublin Marathon Title Next Year
Dwarf Runner Completes His Boston Marathon John Young ran the final 16 miles after illness forced him to drop out on race day.

2 Interesting Articles

American Track League Results: Jason Richardson (13.65), Demetrius Pinder (45.72) And Dee Dee Trotter Among Winners At 3rd American Track League Meet In Atlanta *MB
*Kyle Merber: What Does Track And Field Need To Become Popular? Beer, Gambling And A Shorter Schedule Like The American Track League

Let’s Spice Up The Weekend With Some Controversy

Carl Lewis Does It Again: Carl Lewis: Track And Field Needs A Leader And Usain Bolt “Is Not Leading”
Richard Kilty Reveals Britain’s Top Sprint Groups Hate Each Other – Nearly CameTo Blows Apparently sub-10 man James Dasalou was put into a headlock by rival sprinter James Ellingtonin the warm-up zone prior to the British nationals.
*British Sprinters Hold Peace Talks After Rumors Of Wrestling Match
After EPO Ban, Martin Fagan Returning To Running As It Was (According To Fagan) His Dying Father’s Last Wish “Promise me, Martin, you’ll get back running.” A skeptic from Ireland gave us the heads up about this one. Given the detection window is tiny, he is skeptical Fagan only used EPO once. Not sure if he believes the father’s last wish part.

Results From Kenya

World Half Silver Medalist Mercy Wacera Wins 5k At Kenya Police Service Athletics Championships – Favorites Roll In Men’s 1,500 Heats To Set Up An Explosive Final Caleb Mwangangi and Augustine Choge are in the 1,500 final.
Hellen Obiri Highlights Kenya Defense Forces Championships Winning The 800 (2:00.6), 1,500 (4:10.0) And A Leg Of The Winning 4 X 400 Other highlights were World Half Marathon champ Gladys Cherono winning the 5K/10K and Olympic bronze medalist Abel Mutai taking the steeple.
Caroline Cherotich Sets Kenyan High Jump NR At 1.75m At Kenya Defense Force Championships

Rio And Glasgow Struggling To Get It Right

Kenyan News: Kemboi In Trouble With The Law Again

Ezekiel Kemboi Has Been Sued For Child Negligence By Woman Claiming To Be His Ex-Girlfriend Reports also say that hotel security had to be called to break up a fight between the couple which started because she says he “tried to coerce me into having sex with him.” This report quotes Kemboi as denying the accusations saying he doesn’t know the woman at all.
*Kemboi Denies Accusations “That lady is a frustrated person. We were friends some time back but she is now a married woman. … I did not have a child with her.”
Recommended Read: Good Interview From Spikes Mag With Eunice Sum: Did You Know Before She Was World 800 Champion She Was A Heptathlete? She says she was recruited to focus on the 800 by 2007 World 800 champ Janeth Jepkosgei after she ran a 2:27 800 in a heptathlon.
Kenya’s Commonwealth Games 400 Champ Mark Mutai Is Determined To Retain His Title This Year In Glasgow

Yelena Isinbayeva Says She Plans To Come Back To Competition After Her Pregnancy She is due to give birth in June.

RIP Former US Olympic 200 Champion Mel Patton, Who Has Died At 89 Years Old

Team USA For World Relays Announced

LRCTeam USA For World Relays Announced: US Women's 4 X 800 Could Get Gold, US Stars Simpson, Symmonds, Centro And Cain NOT Running

The inaugural IAAF World Relays Championships later this month are going to be amazing - US and World records are going to drop and many US medals will be won. Too bad many American stars such as Jenny Simpson, Nick Symmonds and the entire Nike Oregon Project will miss out.
*Discuss

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