Sunday Results From Across The Pond *Anniversary Games Full Results

• London Anniversary Games: Bernard Lagat Wins 2-Mile In 8:27 Over Garrett Heath (8:29) And Emmanuel Bett (8:31) Genzebe Dibaba ran 4:28 to beat Morgan Uceny‘s 4:29 in the mile. Mike Rodgers won the 100 in 9.91 as 38-year-old Kim Collins set a NR with 9.96. Lots more good sprint/field action as well with Derek Drouin (HJ), Renaud Lavillenie (PV), Fabiana Murer (PV) winning over other big names.
• GB’s Tiffany Porter Wins 100H In 12.71 Over Brianna Rollins And Sally Pearson Allyson Felix won the 100 over Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Carmelita Jeter, but a clock malfunction meant no time. Blanka Vlasic won the HJ in 2.00m.
• UK’s 60m Indoor World Champ Richard Kilty Left Frustrated As He Claims The Gun Made No Sound In “B” 100 Teammate in Harry Aikines-Aryeetey won, but Kilty pulled up and finished last. Our thought: if the gun didn’t make a sound how did everyone else know to start?
• Olympic Greats Rekindle Spirit Of London 2012 At Anniversary Games
  

• Irish National Champs: Ciaran O’Lionaird Wins 4-Man Battle In 1,500 To Earn Auto Spot For Europeans He ran 3:43.85 to beat Paul Robinson‘s 3:44.6. Former Providence runner David McCarthy was 4th (3:45.64). Mark English won the 800 in 1:49.09. *2nd Article
• Ciara Mageean Makes Return To Track After 2 Years Away With Injury To Win 1,500 Over Fionnuala Britton She ran 4:15.35 to beat Britton by 3 seconds.

• Video Interview With Asafa Powell After His Second Race Back From His Doping Ban Powell ran 10.15 in Heusden to finish 2nd to US’s Marvin Bracy (10.13). Here he talks about doping and his feelings coming back from his recent reduced drug ban.
• Good Article: British Commentators Say What We’re All Thinking: How Is Justin Gatlin Running 19.68 Into A Headwind At 32 Years Old? Interesting look at the reactions from some commentators, including Steve Cram, when Gatlin ran the 8th-fastest 200 of all time. They were more than a little skeptical.
• Usain Bolt Will Race In Special 100 Race In Rio August 14th The race is the last on Bolt’s 2014 schedule which means he won’t face Justin Gatlin at all this year. And people continue to wonder why track isn’t popular in non-Olympic years.

Pre-London Anniversary Games News

• Preview: The Olympic Stadium Is Under Construction But The Sainsbury Anniversary Games Will Still Go On In The Streets Of London There are some really good races with Genzebe Dibaba in the mile against Morgan Uceny, Cory McGee and Gabe Grunewald. Bernard Lagat faces Emmanuel Bett, Donn Cabral, Garrett Heath and more in the 2-mile. A ton of good sprint/field action as well.
• Sally Pearson Using Anniversary Games 100H Against Brianna Rollins As Warmup For Commonwealths
  *Video Interview With Pearson
• Allyson Felix Looking Back To 2012 Olympics For Inspiration At London Anniversary Games She’s up against Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Carmelita Jeter. Here she talks about her faith, US obesity and her hope that drugs in track will be less of a problem come Rio.

• Recommended Read: David Rudisha Hopes To Showcase Genius And Humility At Glasgow 2014 Humble as they come he says, “I always appreciate the others for contributing. One thing my father one time told me is: ‘If there were no other people in a race, if you’d be given a race to run by yourself, then which position will you be in, will you be first or last?'”
  *A Look At The Documentary On Rudisha Which Has Followed Him Since He Was 16 Years Old 100 Seconds to beat the World airs on BBC4 on Tuesday, July 22nd.
• Kenyan Press: “Mo Farah back to haunt Kenyans again.” Seems like this writer is hoping Farah doesn’t attempt the CG double.
• Kenyan Sprint Team Delayed For 17 Hours In Dubai

• Chris O’Hare Looking To Impress In Front Of His Home Crowd He says he’s struggling with patience in races and thinks if he hadn’t gone too early at the Glasgow DL meet he could have run a second faster than his 3:35.06 PR.
• Q&A With Euro 800 Champ Lynsey Sharp, Who Is One Of Scotland’s Biggest Medal Hopes Sharp talks about how she comes from a family of elite athletes, her law degree and pregnant Alysia Montano.
• Games Will Have A Political Backdrop As Vote On Scottish Independence From The UK Is Coming In A Couple Of Months
• Glasgow 2014 Norovirus Outbreak Traced Back To Toilet In Athletes’ Village 53 workers have been infected so far, but officials think that at this point it’s been contained.
• Coach Of 9.96 Man Chijindu Ujah Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo Believes British Coaching Has Improved But Only Because It Was So Bad He thinks the current success looks better because they’ve mismanaged junior talent so badly in the past.
  *Former GB Sprinter Leon Baptiste Thinks There Has Never Been A Better Time In English Sprinting He gives his “ones to watch” in each of the sprinting events.

Big UK News: A WR And A Baby

• GOAT: Mo Farah Breaks World Record!!! … in the 100m potato sack race.
• UK’s Olympic Heptathlon Champ Jessica Ennis-Hill Gives Birth To A Baby Boy The 28-year-old first-time mother has said she’s committed to returning to track and going for another gold medal at Rio 2016.

Interesting: Study Looks At The Effects Of Music Before, During And After Running Study supports listening to pump-up music pre-run and suggests post-run music can help speed recovery.

Commonwealth Games News

• Kenyans Peter Kirui, Emmanuel Bett Out To Sink The “Mo-Bot” At Commonwealth Games They hope to take advantage of a not-100% fit Mo Farah to earn their first senior track medals.
• Mo Farah To Miss London Anniversary Games This Sunday To Focus On CG Bernard Lagat has instead been added to the 2-mile in Farah’s place.
  *So Will UK LJer Greg Rutherford
• Welsh Athletics Chief “Shocked” Over 800 Runner Gareth Warburton’s Positive Doping Test More than a 5-second improvement over 800m from age 25 to 29 … maybe he shouldn’t be.
• English Athletes Concerned About Being Booed By Scottish Fans
  *Fascinating: Guardian Newspaper Thinks This “Scoop” Is BS
• Norovirus Hits 32 People At Glasgow 2014 Athletes’ Village Only workers so far, no athletes.
• Kenyan Sprinters Hoping To Return To Their 4 X 400 Glory Days
• Jamaican Shot Putter Danniel Thomas First Ever From Her Former High School To Make A Major Track Championship

World Juniors Start Tuesday

• Cool: The Men’s 10,000 Final Will Be Accompanied By Live Brass And Percussion Music Apparently it’s “designed to work in sync with the fans’ rhythmic clapping during the race and the heartbeats of the runners.”
• 18-Year-Old 10.01 Sprinter Yoshihide Kiryu Named Captain Of Japan Team He said, “I’ve never been captain before so I don’t know how reliable I’ll be, but I want everyone to have a great time racing.”
• IAAF President Lamine Diack Arrives In Oregon Diack: “It was a dream for me to have a big event in the United States. Oregon is a nice place for track and field.”
• IAAF Previews: Men: *4 X 100 *4 X 400 *PV *HJ *TJ *LJ *Decathlon *Javelin
  *Hammer *Discus *Shot
  *Women: *4 X 100 *4 X 400 *PV *HJ *TJ *LJ *Heptathlon *Javelin
  *Hammer *Discus *Shot

Truth Sometimes Is Stranger Than Fiction – This Is True, We Promise

• At Age 48, 2-Time Boston Marathon Champ, 1991 World 10k Champ Moses Tanui Still Dreaming Of 2016 Olymipcs … In Golf
• Beijing Marathon, Which Begins In Tiananmen Square And Ends At Olympic Stadium, Warns Runners They Will Be DQed If They Pee In Public
• Viktor Chegin, Coach Of 17 Doped Atheltes, Will Not Be An Official Coach At European Champs But Will Still Coach People In Russia
• Oscar P’s Family Issues Statement After His Drunken Altercation At Nightclub – Denies He Insulted South African President They say Oscar’s feeling an “escalating sense of loneliness and alienation,” which “is underlying some of his self-harming behaviour.” *MB: Oscar’s family makes excuses for his drunken brawl

Commonwealth Games/European News

Welsh 800 Runner And British Olympian, Gareth Warburton, To Miss Glasgow 2014 After Doping Positive Tilastapaja says he was a 1:50 guy at age 25, 1:48 guy at age 26 and 1:44 at age 29.
*MB: Who is 1:44.98 Gareth Warburton??? Brit kicked off of Commonwealths for doping positive.
*Gareth Warburton denies ‘knowingly taken any banned substance’ after he’s suspended for anti-doping offence

• Britain’s 9.96 Man Chijindu Ujah Says He Won’t Preen For Cameras As He Doesn’t Want To Look Like A “Plonker” We have no idea what that means. (Edit: JK, a hard-core British comedy fan, informs us that he first heard the term “plonker” on the Britcom series Only Fools and Horses, a show about a small-time schemer / con man struggling to get his dimwitted younger brother (whom he constantly calls a “plonker”) up to speed on how to pull off the latest get-rich-quick scam. Basically, a plonker in this sense is a dolt that has a knack for messing everything up, but it seems to originally have been used to describe a drunken, tottering fool.)
  *MB: Brits help us out – what the hell is a ‘plonker’
• Athletics Weekly Takes A Look Back At The History Of Track And Field At The Commonwealth Games
• Kenya Doesn’t Have Its Uniforms For Commonwealth Games – Nike Says, “Don’t blame us.” Nike claims they shipped them a long time ago and someone forgot to fill out the paperwork at the airport.
• Mo Farah Tweets That Training Is Going Well – He’ll Do CGs