Quote Of The Day
– Excerpt from manuscript written by Nigeria’s 1952 Commonwealth Games high jump champion Emmanuel Ifeajuna. Ifeajuna was the first black African Commonwealth gold medalist and was celebrated as a national sports hero, but then in 1967 was executed by firing squad for his role in Nigeria’s civil war.
- Webb at Triathlon Relay Mixed World Champs
- Emma Coburn 9:11.42 American Record - THANK YOU
- Do you run with your smart phone?
- Shalane Flanagan on skipping US Nationals
- How come there has never been a bona fide attempt to dig a hole completely through Earth.
- DOWN GOES LAGAT... to Cam Levins over 5000m!!!
- Coaching HS boy and girl milers whose time totals 8:47.3
- Yohan Blake the Fake!
2014 London Sainbury’s GP In Glasgow *Day 2 Full Results *Day 1 Full Results *Schedule *Day 1 Photos *Day 2 Photos *LRC Emma Coburn Photo Gallery
Day 2: LRC Emma Coburn Takes Down Jenny Simpson’s American Record, Runs 9:11.42 In Glasgow Emma Coburn‘s torrid 2014 continued as she set her fourth PR of the year in the steeple but this one was historic for her and many others in the race. Read all about it.
*LRC Exclusive: Emma Coburn Speaks After Setting American Record In Glasgow A focus on competition, not time, gave Coburn the AR.
*MB Talk: Emma Coburn 9:11.42 American Record – THANK YOU
*Video Of Emma’s Run
*Coburn Now Dominates All-Time US List With 5 Of The 6 Fastest US Steeple Times And 7 Of The Top 14 A bit overlooked, Stephanie Garcia is now 4th on the US all-time list behind Coburn, Jenny Simpson and Anna Willard as she ran 9:24 in Paris and then again in Glasgow.
More From Glasgow
- Initial Tests On Yohan Blake Showed No New Damage To His Hamstring With His Manager Saying It Was Just A Cramp Blake is still getting an MRI to double check.
- Scottish 1,500 Runner Lynsey Sharp Thinks The Atmosphere In Glasgow Rivaled The 2012 Olympics She probably felt a lot of Scottish support, but the stadium was half empty.
- Good Read: Gia Lewis-Smallwood Says Her Upset Discus Victory At Glasgow DL Was A Dream Come True Because She’s Always Had An “Unhealthy Obsession With Scotland” Lewis-Smallwood: “I don’t know why but I have always loved Scotland. I love everything about it – the culture, the people, the accent; Jesus the accent! Everything about Scotland rocks.”
- IAAF Distance Recap: David Rudisha: “I’m happy to have done what I came for.”Apparently Emma Coburn has a dog named Arthur named after Arthur Lydiard.
- Trinidad And Tobago’s Michelle-Lee Ahye Gets Her 9th Straight 100 Victory She ran 11.01 to beat Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and stay unbeaten over 100m in 2014.
- IAAF Sprint/Field Recap
Commonwealth Games News
More Distance News: Tim Danielson Gets Life In Prison
Former High School Phenom Miler Tim Danielson Gets 50-To-Life For Killing His Wife Danielson was the 2nd high schooler to ever break 4:00 in the mile back in 1966.- Good Competitor Q&A With Shalane Flanagan As She Plots An Attack At Sub-2:20 And Deena Kastor’s AR This Fall She feels her 2:22 in Boston was worth sub-2:20 on a faster course.
- Paula Radcliffe Thinks Her Foot Can Handle The Marathon Distance, But Doesn’t Know How Fast
- Ezekiel Kemboi Ahead Of Final Commonwealth Games: “I’m going for gold as always and nothing less since I want to finish on a high.”
US Distance News
- Reccommended Read:Oregon Project Assistant Coach Pete Julian Has Defied The Odds To Battle Cancer And Stay Alive Julian is a former elite who has had three cancer surgeries, but a miracle drug that wasn’t supposed to work is what saved him although it’s not a cure and he still goes to the hospital every nine months to get scans saying, “I get into that CT machine, and I’m shaking out of straight fear.”
Embarrassing:Even With The Official DQ Report Being Released, No One From USATF Has Communicated At All With Andrew Bumbalough No one from the working group ever thought to speak to the athlete who was erroneously DQed and USATF didn’t bother to give him an update or an apology at any time during or after the process.- 2:13 US Marathoner Ricky Flynn Arrested On Embezzlement Charges The 2012 Olympic Trials 12th placer stands accused of stealing more than $5,000 in goods from a local running store he worked at.
- Mac Fleet Joins OTC Elite
- Kara Goucher Blog Update On Her Comeback From Her Sacral Stress Fracture She’s healthy and off the Alter-G running on solid ground again, just having finished an 82-mile week.
Worth A Read??
Carey Pinkowski Is Thrilled That Northport Has Matched Hammond Tech’s Feat Of Having 3 Sub-9s On It, 39 Years Later We gotta admit the Northport team with twin power and an autistic superstar is very compelling but nothing beat’s Carey’s hair (far right).
*MB: “Hammond High had no track” –- Good Read: Heather Kampf, Who Is Feeling Good After A Win In Ireland, Blogs About Overcoming The Power Of Your Mind She hopes to go sub-2 soon.
- UK Coach: Says Lashawn Merritt Vs. Kirani James Is The Best Show On Earth We like the column but disagree that the 400 is the best event in track. 800 hands down.
- 14:07/3:45 Aussie Teen Morgan McDonald Headed To World Jrs And Then Will Run For Wisco
- Edward Cheserek, Lawi Lalang And Deon Leondore Are The 3 Men’s Finalists For The Bowerman Full release here.
- Sharika Nelvis, Laura Roesler And Courtney Okolo Are Women’s Finalists For The Bowerman
- Laura Roesler, Aries Merritt, Jason Richardson Confirmed For July 26th High-Performance Meet In Eugene There will be men’s and women’s 4 x 800s that go for the American records.
News From The Commonwealth
- Kenyans Worried About Sabotage And That They’ll Be “Tricked” Into Taking Banned Substances At Glasgow Commonwealth Games
- Jamaican TV Station Says Asafa Powell And Sherone Simpson Are Cleared By CAS – Their Agents Say Decision Hasn’t Come Yet
- Meet Sammi Kinghorn, Paralympian 1,500 Racer Whose Back Was Broken By A Forklift Driven By Her Dad At Age 14
She’s dealt with adversity with class. - Scotland’s First Female Commonwealth Games Champion Dies On Eve Of Glasgow 2014 RIP at age 80.
Paralympic 100 Champ Jonnie Peacock Is Fit And Primed To Deliver Again
Jr. News
- HSer Kaylin Whitney Is Named USATF Athlete Of Week After Running 11.10 And 22.40 Whitney, who trains with former doper Dennis Mitchell, was most surprised by the 200.
- Wilhem Belocian Takes Back European Junior Record In 110h At 13.15 – Ready For Clash With Great Britain’s David Omoregie At World Juniors
- LSU Signee Daeshon Gordon Goes To HS In Florida But Runs At World Jrs For Jamaica
LRCMo Farah Was In Hospital Last Week For Two Days, Pulls Out Of This Weekend’s Sainsbury Glasgow Grand Prix A tough year for Mo medically as he passed out after the NYC half in March. *Discuss In Our Forums*Salazar Was So Concerned About Farah That he Skipped World Juniors And Flew To Park City The docs never found anything and the stomach ailment is past him and he’s back to training.
Commonwealth Games Start In 9 Days
Recommended Read: Read The Story Of Nigeria’s Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Who Was The First Black African To Win Gold At The Commonwealth Games, But Whose Life Came To A Tragic End Ifeajuna won the HJ in 1954 and was a national hero, but then later was executed by a firing squad in 1967 as consequence of his role in Nigeria’s civil war.- Paula Radcliffe Feels The Strength Mo Farah Gained From Marathon Training Could Help Him Get The Double Victory At The Commonwealth Games Farah’s agent Ricky Simms said it was too early to make any decisions on his upcoming races after his 2-day stay in the hospital last week.
- GB’s Laura Muir Might Have Tough Time Doubling At Commonwealth Games With The Addition Of An Extra Round Of The 800 An extra round was added because of the high number of entries. In other UK/Scottish news, Chris O’Hare talks about feeling really good during his 3:35 in Glasgow.
It's Sad It Took An Online Campaign To Start This
Russian Anti-Doping Agency Investigating Coach Viktor Chegin, Who Has Coached 17 Athletes Banned For Doping The investigation is in response to an online campaign led by Aussie Olympic medalist Jared Tallent.
More From The Weekend
- Brit Anthony Whiteman Improves His Own 800 Masters World Best With 1:48.05 He beat 19-year-old Matthew Fayers, who ran 1:48.12. NZ National Champion Angie Smit won the women’s 800 in 2:00.59.
- Photo Of The Week? Bunch Of Young Fans Cool Down With Will Leer After His 3:51 Mile Victory At The Morton Mile
- Kenyans Geoffrey Kenisi Bundi (44:18) And Mary Wacera (50:13) Win Boilermaker 15K In Utica, NY Jen Rhines and Guor Maker were the top Americans.
- Former African XC Champ Amos Mitei (28:50) And Alice Aprot (33:30) Win Rift Valley Technical Training Institute Charity 10K In Eldoret
European Champs Are In August
- After Setting NRs Over 100 And 200 In Glasgow, The Netherlands’ Dafne Schippers Has Choices Ahead Of Euros She can compete in the heptathlon in which she is the World bronze medalist, or the 100 and 200.
- James Dasaolu Likely To Be Chosen For GB 100 Team For Euro Champs Over Recent Sub-10 Man Chijundu Ujah Dasaolu ran 10.03 for 4th place in Glasgow in his second race back from injury while Ujah hasn’t came close to 10-flat since he ran his 9.96 earlier in the year.
Mid-D News
- Results: Gabe Grunewald Wins 1,500 At The Guldensporen Flanders Cup Meet In 4:07.70 Kim Conley was 4th (4:09.48). Chris Solinsky was 10th in the men’s race with 3:46.55.
Maggie Vessey’s Resurgance To Relevance This Year Can Be Credited Largely To Her Return To Her Former Coach, Greg Brock Under Brock she finished 4th at USAs instead of getting last (2012) or not making the final (2013).
*MB: Maggie Vessey’s coach rips into Rose Monday- Sounds Like A Good Time: Help Kickstart Campaign To Help Fund Sir Walter Miler Race In Raleigh, NC On August 1st Last year it was an impromptu event that drew a huge crowd as one guy, Sandy Roberts, tried to go sub-4 in the mile (he ran 4:01). This year they’re making it bigger with multiple races and a party with live music and food afterwards. *Event Site/Info *Press Release
- Bring Back The Mile Campaign Gets Some Love In New Zealand BBTM founder Ryan Lamppa and others were interviewed during New Zealand’s RadioLIVE NZ show.
- BBTM’s “Mile Moment Of The Month”: Steve Scott’s Dream Mile 1982 Watch a historical moment in US T&F history as Scott set a US record at the Oslo Bislett Games that lasted until 2007 when Alan Webb ran his 3:46.91.
Glasgow Day 1
LRCGlasgow Day 1 Distance Recap: Sifan Hassan Wins Again, Hagos Gebrhiwet Returns To Form, The Americans Struggle Mightily In The 5,000 And Jordan Hasay PRsJordan Hasay was dead last in the 1,500 but was an American bright spot as she still PRed by over 2 seconds. The American men struggled big time in the 5,000. *Day 1 TV Photos
LRC Sprint/Field Ashton Eaton Celebrates, Yohan Blake Leaves In A Wheelchair, McCorory Over Richards-Ross, Big Throws By Americans, Alonso Edward Is Back In Glasgow The sprint and field action was interesting to say the least.
- More: GB Emerging Sprinter Jodie Wiliams Believes She Is Edging Closer To Her Hero Allyson Felix And Could Eventually Beat Her They’ll race over 200 today. Williams was 2nd to Felix in last month’s Oslo DL meet.
- IAAF: Sandra Perkovic’s Discus Winning Streak Comes To An End As US’s Gia Lewis-Smallwood Gets The Unexpected Win Perkovic hand’t lost a DL meet since July 2012.
- IAAF: Sifan Hassan Only 3 Points Behind Abeba Aregawi In DL Standings Two more races to go.
- Scotland’s 400 Hurdler Eilidh Child Targets Gold At Commonwealth Games After DL Victory
- USATF Report Of US Performances From Day 1
Friday Glasgow Talk On The Message Board: Official 2014 Glasgow DL Discussion Thread
1,500: JORDAN HASAY with 3-sec PR over 1500m
5,000: DOWN GOES LAGAT… to Cam Levins over 5000m!!!
*Lagat 13:27.08 is this it for him?
*LAGAT, LEVINS, MEAD, SOI, LONGOSIWA, ALAMIREW, ROP, etc. all racing in Glasgow on Friday!
Sprinting: Down goes Blake! Down goes Blake! Down goes Blake!
*Glasgow DL: Proof that Drug-Testing works
*Jamaican sprinters’ funk – off the sauce with JADCO’s feet to the fire?
NCAA Stuff
RW Asks “Are Too Many Runners Eating Gluten-Free?” Gluten-free diets are popular, but few athletes on them have a medical diagnosis and nutritionists say that could be a problem.
Track And Field Stars Are Beautiful People
Peachtree Road Race Photos- Lausanne Diamond League Photos Meet Ronald Kwemoi.
USATF DQ Report Analysis / We Refuse To Fall To The Holiday Weekend News Dump
LRCUSATF DQ Report Released: Did Alberto Salazar Have Undue Influence? We Still Don't Know
We wonder if it's normal for an official to tell a coach about a foul he admits he didn't see. Then we start to go off into la-la conspiracy land as we notice a key part of the report regarding Salazar shows up in a different font. To us, the whole report reads like a 5th grader's book report, not a report worthy analysis of a decision that (illegally) fixed the outcome of a national championship race.
Mid-D Stars In The News
Good Ajee’ Wilson Profile: Why Ajee’ Is A Winner “I used to race my mum every year. … It was huge to beat my mum for the first time. I can’t remember when I first beat her, but after I did she stopped racing me.” And for the record, her name is pronounced “ah-jhay.”
- David Rudisha Feels The Best Is Yet To Come “I’m still young and feel that I can do better. Not this year maybe but next year.”
Non-Coburn Glasgow Day 2
LRCDavid Rudisha Is Really Back, Ajee Wilson Keeps Rolling, Silas Kiplagat And Chris O’Hare Impress, And The Consistent Leo Manzano?The non-Emma distance action was pretty good with Rudisha crushing the field @ 800.
LRC Glasgow Day 2, Sprints & Field Events: Michelle-Lee Ahye Keeps Winning And Dafne Schippers Is The Netherlands’ Version Of Ashton Eaton Ahye remained perfect in the 100 while Schippers won the 200 over Allyson Felix and set two national records in the span of two hours. There were also wins for Christian Taylor (triple jump), Jeff Henderson (long jump) and Blanka Vlasic (high jump).
Glasgow Photos: Day 2, Day 1
Plus Emma Coburn Photo Gallery:
USADA Trying To Get John Drummond’s Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed It seems likely that this will happen. According to this article the statements made by Travis Tygart and Tyson Gay come from a court affidavit not released to the public and the inquiry into Drummond only became public when he filed his suit against USADA.
Other News
- Looks Great: First Trailer Released For “Unbroken” Movie On The Recently-Passed Olympic Runner And WWII POW Louis Zamperini
- Four Kenyan Distance Runenrs Set To Receive Russian Citzenship They’re competing at next week’s national championships, despite not being citizens yet. One of them, Evans Kiplagat, has PRs of 59:56 and 2:09:22.
- Italy’s Bernard Dematteis And Austria’s Andrea Mayr Win European Mountain Running Championships
- Day 1 Recap Of USATF Club Track And Field Championships: Central Park TC Leads
International Distance Results *Morton Games Distance Results *Full Harry Jerome Classic Results
- Ireland:
Will Leer Shatters 34-Year-Old Morton Mile Record With 3:51.82 Victory; Molly Huddle Gets Women’s Record With 4:26.84 Leer won over Pat Casey (3:52.62), Cory Leslie (3:53.44), Zane Robertson (3:53.72) and Kyle Merber (3:54.76). Phoebe Wright won the 800 (2:01.91) as Ireland’s Mark English ran 1:45.79 to beat US’s Ryan Martin (1:45.79). Mexico’s Juan Luis Barrios won the 3K in 7:44.21 over Trevor Dunbar (7:45.09). Ireland got an upset win when Thomas Barr beat world champ Jehune Gordon in the 400H with 48.94. - Canada: Nate Brannen Wins Mile In 3:57.48 As Chris Derrick Is 3rd (3:59.52) Eric Avila was 5th and AJ Acosta 6th, both just over 4 minutes. Canada’s Melissa Bishop won the 800 (2:00.06) as Erica Moore was 3rd (2:02.14) and Sarah Brown won the mile in 4:26.67 with NCAA 1,500 champ Shelby Houlihan 6th (4:33.52).
Pre-Meet Glasgow News
LRC Meet Preview A Great Women’s 1,500, A Totally Loaded Men’s 5,000, Emma Coburn Chases The American Record And David Rudisha In The 800 So much good stuff it takes two days to get it in. Plus recent US champs Leo Manzano and Ajee’ Wilson in the men’s 1,500 and women’s 800.
*Rudisha At Press Conference: “I want to get the world leading time and to get close to 1:42.”
*IAAF Full Meet Preview A struggling Yohan Blake in the 100, Rudisha returns to UK for 1st time since his 1:40.91 800 WR.
*What About The Sport:Yohan Blake Apologizes For “Snubbing” Glasgow Commonwealth Games Blake and his manager said he had to “do what’s in his best interests.”
*UK’s Christine Ohuruogu And Adam Gemili Have Pulled Out Of Glasgow DL Ohuruogu doesn’t feel fit and Gemili is dealing with stiffness.
*Steve Cram’s “Ones To Watch In Glasgow”
*MB:CENTRO In Glasgow 800
US Junior News
LRC LetsRun, Meet Sydney McLaughlin – The 14-Year-Old Who Nearly Beat An NCAA Champ Last Week But Is Too Young For World Jrs!
*DyeStat.com’s Doug Binder: “Is the process for selecting the U.S. junior team fair?”
*MileSplit: Introducing The World Juniors Snub Team Trentavis Friday ran a HS record with 10.00 in the prelims, but won’t go on the 4 x 100 because he false started the final.
Next Week
Monaco 800s And 1,500s Will Be Special – Kiprop Will Face WR And Kiplagat And Souleiman; Rudisha, Aman, Amos, And Solomon In 800 In other action, world 400m hurdles champion Zuzana Hejnova will race for the 1st time on the year, the women’s 100 is absolutely loaded and for just the 2nd time in history, 6 men with PRs of 2.40 or better will compete.
*Provisional Entry Lists
*MB:Check out the Monaco 200m (men) – – MOST INTERESTING sprint lineup of 2014 !
Weekly Recap – The Week That Was
LRCWeek That Was: Thou Shall Not Skip USAs, Medals For Emma And Evan, And Thou Shall Not Compare Matt Llano To Ryan Hall
This week we wonder if there is a skip USAs jinx, marvel at some amazing field eventers, get ready for World Juniors, tell the suits how to market our beloved sport better, praise a racewalker, dash the dreams of those who compare Matt Llano to Ryan Hall, and wonder why Nike seems to be embarrassed by the fact that elite runners are skinny.
Commonwealth Games News
“Horrific, Humiliating” Commonwealth Games Uniforms For Scotland Released Interesting to say the least.- After Six Weeks Of Training With Val Adams, Tom Walsh Is Ready To Get Into Competition Shape With Commonwealth Games 20 Days Away
- Greg Rutherford Thought His Career Was Over When He Ruptured A Muscle Last Year, But Now Wants Only Gold At Commonwealths
- Katarina Johnson-Thompson Says She Has A Long Way To Go To Catch Jessica Ennis Hill
- After Injury, Dai Greene Returns To Action, Beats Jehue Gordon In 49.89 In Hungary
- St Kitts And Nevis Names Commonwealth Games Team
LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”
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