Archived Homepage For July 22, 2014
Archived Homepage For July 22, 2014

2014 World Juniors Start Tuesday *TV & Streaming*Results, Schedule, Start Lists

LRC 2014 World Juniors Preview: Mary Cain Is the Favorite For Gold In The 3,000; Alexa Efraimson Could Medal In The 1,500; Does Anyone Else Have A Chance? Why is Mary Cain running the 3,000 and not the 1,500? We think we’ve got the answer. And it has nothing to do with ducking Alexa Efraimson or Elise Cranny but rather with avoiding the world #2 at 800 and world #7 at 1,500. With Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi entered in the 1,500 and not the 3,000, the door is open for Cain to win the U.S.’s first-ever medal at a distance greater than 800 meters – and it could be gold. Efraimson and Cranny are seeded 3rd and 5th in the women’s 1,500 and could sneak a medal, but it’s going to be difficult for the rest of Team USA in the distances.
*RRWMary Cain Savoring (Second) Home Field Advantage for IAAF World Junior Championships

Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony Is Tomorrow *Track Schedule (Starts Sun.)

 Sprint News 

Pre-London Anniversary Games News

 Kenya At The Commonwealth Games 

 UK / Scotland CG News 

 

Big UK News: A WR And A Baby

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.

World Juniors Start Tuesday

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

LRC Commentary

US Distance News: Meb For VP

Sunday Results From Across The Pond *Anniversary Games Full Results

 

World Junior Champs Start Tomorrow In Eugene *Meet Schedule *Provisional Entry Lists *IAAF Event Previews *Live Stream Info 

Latest Pre-Commonwealth Games Stuff

 Also This Weekend 

 Other News 

Good Analysis: Science Of Sports’ Ross Tucker Blogs About Long-Term Implications Of Powell’s & Simpson’s Bans Being Cut To 6 Months Along the way, he wonders what the hell were the athletes thinking when they took something called “Epiphany.”

US Distance News

 More World Jr. News 

US Distance News

More US: Shalane Flanagan / Sara Hall Win On The Roads, 90+-Year-Olds On The Track

Non-DL Weekend Action

2014 Herculis Monaco DL*Full Results 

Molly Huddle After Her Debut

LRC Molly Huddle Runs 14:42.64 To Lower Her 5,000m American Record As Genzebe Dibaba Gets World Leader Molly Huddle lowered her American record and Genzebe Dibaba got the world-leading win.
On The Boards:Thank you Molly Huddle: 14:42 AR
*MB:Betsy Saina Drops Her PR from 15:12.05 to 14:39.49 

LRCIt Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This: Ajee’ Wilson Snaps Eunice Sum’s Unbeaten Streak, Wins Her First Career DL Title In World-Leading 1:57.67Eunice Sum came in having won 14 in a row. Sum ran the 2nd fastest time of her life – and lost to an American. Congrats Ajee’ Wilson.
*MB:
Ajee takes down Sum in 1:57.67 looking relaxed!

The Rest Of The Meet:

Martinot-Lagarde could not believe the timeLRCMonaco Full Wrap-Up: Jairus Birech Wins Again In Steeple, Justin Gatlin 19.68 Into A Headwind, Bondarenko Over 2.40 Again And Torie Bowie 10.80 WLThis was by far the best track meet of the year. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde joined the sub-13.00 club, there was a massive mark in the women’s TJ and world leaders in the men’s 200 and women’s 100. But it wasn’t a good day for Evan Jager.
*Bohdan Bondarenko Over 2.40m Again In Monaco
*Ibarguen’s Terrific Triple Jump Of 15.31m In Monaco
*Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Still Struggling On Comeback From Injury As She Only Finishes 6th In 100 She still set a SB, though, with 11.01.
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Two French NRs Went Down: Pascal Martinot-Lagarde’s 12.95 And Pierre-Ambroise Bosse’s 1:42.53

 

US Distance News: Bernard Lagat Loses His Road 5K AR

The Young And The Old

Interesting To Say The Least


Sounds Awesome: Documentary Film That Has Been Following David Rudisha Since He Was 16 Will Air On Tuesday On BBC We love the title: 100 Seconds to Beat the World: Father, Son and the Holy Coach.


Finally:Ashton Eaton Gets A Nice Feature In UK’s Independent Before His Long Jump On The Mall This Weekend Eaton is enjoying track a lot this year: “It’s like I’m not even competing like a professional track and field athlete. There’s no mental stress, just traveling around the world having fun.”