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LRCWhy Can Soccer Stars Star In Commercials During The World Cup But Not Track And Field Stars During The Olympics? IOC Rule 40 Must Go!

Tracksmith: New Premium Performance Running Brand Launches Tracksmith, a performance running brand that celebrates the style and culture of the sport, launched this morning. Friend of LRC, Matt Taylor, the man behind the Usain Bolt iPhone game and chasingtradition.com, and the former Global Head of Marketing for Running & Training at Puma, is one of Tracksmith’s founders. He wanted to create a different type of brand that celebrates the grace, style and tradition of the world’s oldest sport, with products designed and manufactured in America (mostly in New England). Good luck to Matt. Check it out at www.tracksmith.com.

Important News

• David Rudisha Documentary “100 Seconds to Beat the World: The David Rudisha Story” Debuts In UK And Gets Rave Reviews – “Powerful and insightful.”
• LRCHere’s How To Watch The David Rudisha Documentary For Free

• Yuriy Borzakovskiy – 2004 Olympic 800 champ – Retires
• Usain Bolt Is Alive – Bolt Announces His 2014 Schedule After the 4 x 100 at CGs, he’s set to go at a number of races, including his DL debut in Zurich on Aug. 28.

• We 100% Disagree: Usain Bolt: Cutting Tyson Gay Doping Ban “Sends Bad Message”‘ Bolt: “It is sending a bad message into the sport that you can do it, but if you co-operate with us we’ll reduce the sentence.” We wonder if they asked him about Asafa Powell. Doping is all about incentives. If there is no incentive to be honest about it, dopers will deny, deny, deny.
• Yohan Blake’s Injury Was More Serious Than Thought – Glen Mills Says He’s Already Had Surgery And Will Be “Out For Quite A Long Time”

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

• Don’t Believe Everything You Read Organizers Say Today’s Opening Ceremony With Rod Stewart Will Attract “1.5 Billion” Viewers Around The World
  *Susan Boyle Will Also Be Involved In Opening Ceremony A beloved figure of LRC co-founder Rojo.
• Gay Rights Activists Are Outraged That Homosexuality Is A Criminal Act In 80% Of Commonwealth Countries
• Glasgow 2012 Isn’t London 2012 But It’s The Next Best Thing
• Boycotts And Broken Dreams: The Story Of 1986 Commonwealth GamesLiz McColgan‘s dad thought he was a jinx and tried to leave the stadium but his wife pleaded and he came back in to see McGolgan win gold. People with UK IP’s watch the documentary here.
• Dwain Chambers Pulls Out Of Commonwealth Games 4 X100, Will Focus On Europeans England now needs a replacement.
• Recommended Read LetsThrow.com: Goldie Sayers: My London 2012 “Nightmare” And The Long Road Back A fantastic read on the comeback of the woman who in her last meet before London 2012 crushed the WR holder before missing 23 months by blowing out her arm in front of the hometown fans in the Olympics.
• How British Sprinters Are Breaking Down 10-Second Barrier Meanwhile, American HSers are almost doing it.

Previous Commonwealth Games News

• Good Read: Brother Colm O’Connell Says “There’s Nothing To Panic About” As David Rudisha Prepares To Race Commonwealth Games O’Connell points out that Rudisha has improved his time every race this year and they knew coming in it would take a long time to get back to where he was in 2012.
  *Another Good Article On History Of The Coaching Relationship Between Rudisha And O’Connell Rudisha: “I don’t know where I’d be without him.”
• Iona’s Kate Avery Gets Last Minute England Team Spot For 10,000 At After Jo Pavey Pulls Out To Focus On The 5,000
• Scotland 800 Runner Lynsey Sharp Going For A Medal Despite Running With A Hole In Her Leg She has a chronic infection in a leftover wound from the leg surgery she had. She will have to have surgery again, but has postponed it as she wanted to run at her home CGs.
• England’s Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Pulls Out With Foot Injury She was the favorite to win gold.
• Rules Waived For Glasgow 2014 After Multiple Countries Forget To Enter Athletes On Time 48 athletes from 8 countries (including Australia, Jamaica, Kenya) were allowed entry despite missing last month’s deadline.

• England 400 Hurdler Meghan Beesley Pulls Out Of CGs With Stress Fracture

• UK Telegraph’s Top 10 Names To Look Out For In Glasgow Track athletes get top 4 spots with Usain Bolt leading the way.
• Spectators Urged To Organize Travel Plans For Glasgow 2014 As Survey Finds Half Have Not
• England Targeting At Least 130 Medals At Commonwealth Games

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

• Shalane Flanagan Wins Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicago Half Marathon In 1:09:45
  
• Sara Hall Wins Napa-To-Sonoma Wine Country Half Marathon In 1:13:16 As Lauren Fleshman Ran 1:15:25 For 2nd Tesfaye Alemayehu won his 5th straight title in 1:03:22 over Sergio Reyes and Ben Bruce. Ryan Hall raced, but dropped out around 6 miles.
• Recap: First Relay Team Of 90-Plus-Year-Olds Set 3 World Records, So Cal Wins Team Championship At USATF Masters Outdoors It was the first time a relay team was formed with 90+-year-olds so they set de facto records in the 4 x 100, 4 x 400 and 4 x 800.