Usain Bolt Will Miss Ostrava Golden Spike And Paris DL Meet This Month As He’s Not In Shape To Race He’s been coming back from a foot injury and says while he is 100% healthy and training, he is behind where he normally is.

Houston Leg Of American Track League Series Was Friday And Asafa Powell Almost Competed

• Asafa Powell Was Going To Make An Early Return From His Doping Suspension At The ATL Meet In Houston According to this article, WADA approved a ban reduction down to 11 months, but Jamaica didn’t approve it so he had to withdraw from the meet. Powell was on the start lists, but he didn’t show up in the results.
• Highlights From Houston ATL Meet Included Brigetta Barrett Winning HJ In 1.95m, Wallace Spearmon Winning 200 In 20.38 Bryshon Nellum was 3rd (20.78), Jeremy Wariner 6th (21.09). Jessica Beard ran 23.08 to beat Kimberlyn Duncan by .01. Harry Adams won the 100 in 10.13 and DeeDee Trotter took the 400 in 51.47.

IAAF Looks At The Rise Of US Sprinter Tori Bowie, Who Is Having A Breakthrough Year, Winning The Pre 200 And Rome 100 She was an underdog in both races, which included Olympic champ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and at Pre was given lane 1. She was actually mostly considered a LJer before this year.
MB: Who is this girl Tori Bowie?

Jim Ryun Festival Of Miles *Results

Awesome:Eric Avila Finds Redemption And First Sub-4 Mile At Jim Ryun Festival Of Miles In SD What a race. Avila, the 2007 CA 3,200 champ, who went to NAU and failed out and started digging ditches, is back in a big way. He went from 4:07 to 3:56 in the mile (did have a 3:42 1,500 PR), just edging AJ Acosta in front of a raucous home-town crowd. Denna Kastor (5:02) was way off the Masters mark as Sarah Brown won in 4:33. *Video*Vine*Photos *MB: Eric Avila’s return is complete!! Goes from 4:07 to 3:56 in front of Jim Ryun and Alan Webb and racuous crowd.
*RRW: Fun Evening, Fast Times At Jim Ryun Festival Of Miles

Avila Mania: Recommended Read: Awesome Profile Of Eric Avila’s Resurrection From May: State Champ Was “Cocky” And It Cost Him “I was a cocky little turd. … I didn’t approach things right. Let’s just say I was an idiot.”
*Eric Avila Is Now Thriving At Southern Oregon University
Archive: 2007: Is Avila The Best Prep Ever?

Another Good Read:Topeka Capital-Journal: Jim Ryun Relives Record-Setting Race Of 50 Years Ago
*Ryun’s Predecessor Tom Sullivan Talks About Losing His HS Record “I am very privileged and honored to be able to say that Jim Ryun broke my record. I am more fortunate, however, to have been born four years before Jim Ryun.”

Awesome Read:Track And Field News Recalls How 50 Years Ago Jim Ryun’s Sub-4 Was Far From Being Huge Track News The 5k at the same meet, where Gerry Lindgren set his legendary 13:44 HS record, was called “the most significant race by American distance runners in history” by a TFN co-founder.

Nike Festival Of Miles In Missouri

• Nike Festival Of Miles:Jordan McNamara Wins In 3:54.27 As Heather Kampf Wins The 800 In 2:01.48 McNamara beat a good field as the top 4 were sub-4 with Duncan Phillips 2nd (3:56.10). Aussie Olympian David McNeill was 7th (4:00.71).
  *High School Results: Spencer Haik (4:05) And Stephanie Jenks (4:46) Win A ridiculous 8 high schoolers were 4:10 or under.

• We Wondered Where He Had Been:Steeplechase World Silver Medalist Conseslus Kipruto Has A Back Injury And Will Miss The Beginning Of The Season
• Funny Video:Reporter Tries To Keep Up With Kenyan Marathoners At Stockholm Marathon
• 2:12 Marathoner Edwin Kipchirchir Now Austrian Citizen Kipchirchir has an Austrian wife whom he now lives there with.

Not Your Everyday Read (These Should Spice Up Your Workday)

• Title IX And Race Walkers Unite: Walker Successfully Sues USATF For Not Offering Prize Money In Women’s 50k Race Walk
• Watch Out, Meb:California Chrome Signs First Major Marketing Deal With Shoe Brand Skechers
• WADA, This Is For You: North Korean Scientists “Make Sports Drink From Mushrooms To Improve Athletic Performance”
• Vending Machine Dispensed Free New Balance Running Gear In NYC For National Running Day Runners simply had to go to the Westin New York Grand Central and tweet “I want to run @Westin” and included the hashtag “#National Running Day.”
• Crows Are Repeatedly Attacking Blonde-Haired Runners In Park In UKBlond jokes, please.
• Charges Dropped Against Boston Marathon Hoax Suspect We don’t get this one. He had a backpack, was wearing a veil and had a rick cooker in it.
• John “The Penguin” Bingham Is Retiring At End Of The Year We guess even slow running stars retire. And yes, Bingham is a star.
• Bruny Surin Reminisces About Winning Olympic 4 X 100m Gold On US Turf In 1996 – “IT WAS LIKE WE DIDN’T EXIST” He sits down for an interview with Ato Boldon as part of the IAAF Inside Athletics show.
• Q&A With Voice Of Hayward Field, Paul Swangard, The Man Who Coined The Term “Bowerman Curve”

Future DL Action

• Oslo Is Next Wed. (June 11):Ashton Eaton To Make European IAAF Diamond League Debut In 400H
  *Allyson Felix To Run ExxonMobil Bislett Games For 1st Time Next Wed.
• Lausanne Is July 3rd: Simon Hart: Tyson Gay To Return To Action And Face Justin Gatlin In Lausanne As “Fans Fume”We like the creativity of the meet organizers. We imagine the asking price for Gay is way less than Bolt/Blake. Lausanne is the meet that three years ago actually lost a “restraint of trade” court case for trying to prevent doper Hind Dehiba from competing. *MB: Gay vs. Gatlin, Lausanne, July 3. Just say No.
  *More Lausanne: Kirani James Vs. LaShawn Merritt At 400, Yohan Blake In 200, Eunice Sum, Great Men’s Steeple To Highlight