Track Talk Live Is Back!!!

Podcast: LRC A conversation with Nick Willlis – Recorded Live on Thursday  The Olympic silver medalist in Glasgow, Scotland took a break from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland to talk about training for the 5k, whom he views as the best 1500 runner on the planet, the difference between attitude and ability, the war on doping and how special it was to run 3:29 for 1500. Are you a Willis fan? Be sure to get to the Michigan Track Classic on Aug 10th in Saline, MI.

The Russians Get Busted Again

MB: Wow: IAAF Bans Ekaterina Kostetskaya – Steve Hooker’s Wife And 1:56 Russian Who Went To HS In Arkansas – For Doping Yes, it’s true. Even good looking people dope.
*Yet Another Russian Racewalker Is Banned For Doping This time it’s European champ Stanislav Emelyanov.

Commonwealth Games *Full Schedule And Results*TV And Streaming Info*5k Photos

Thursday’s Live YouTube Stream Men’s 800 final is at 2:50 pm ET, w 200m at 3:45, m 200m at 4:10.

LRCAll Set For Dream 800 Final – David Rudisha And Nijel Amos Both Win Their Semis To Set Up Seismic ClashThe dream final we all wanted is set for 2:50 pm ET Thursday. Take a break from work and watch this one as it’s worth 1:45 of your time. The real drama in the semis involved a brazen foul by NCAA champ Brandon McBride of Canada.
*MB:Brandon McBride’s big hit!

• IAAF Full Day Recap – Val Adams, Kirani James And Rutherford Are Golden
• Kenya Sweeps Women’s Steeple But Purity Cherotich Kirui, Not Milcah Chemos, Gets Gold
  *Eilish McColgan Takes Sixth – The Scotsman
• Kirani James Not Surprised By CG Record Of 44.24“I expected to have a great performance.”
  
• Greg Rutherford Leaps To Commonwealth Gold (8.20m)
• 13.32 Was The Winning Time Ffor Andrew Riley In Men’s 110H
• Dai Greene Blames Lack Of Sharpness Following 50.36 Failure To Make Final
• A Look Back At The New Zealand Racewalker Craig Barrett, Who Had A Huge Lead But Collapsed Yards From The 50km Finish In 1998 And Couldn’t Finish

Distance News Of Note

• World Half Marathon Champions Geoffrey Kipsang And Gladys Cherono Added To 2014 Berlin Marathon Fields Men’s field is stacked as it also has Chicago CR holder Dennis Kimetto, 2-time London Marathon winner Tsegaye Kebede, and 2011 London Marathon champion Emmanuel Mutai.
• Will This Person Be Mary Cain’s Nemesis For The Next Decade? Kenya’s Next Great Star? 1,500 Gold Shows Faith Kipyegon Continues To Bloom The 3-time World Jr. XC champ, who crushed Mary Cain at World Jrs in 2012 and ran 3:56 in 2013, now has her first senior medal in 2014.
• John Mayer: Jenny Simpson Embraces Emma Coburn’s Success*MB: John Mayer Profiles Boulder’s Ffastest Women (Pic)
• Athletics South Africa Reverses Course – Will Take Distance Runners To African Champs – Johan Cronje And Andre Olivier Make The Cut
• After His 1:42.53, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse Wants To Make Sure He Never Loses To A European
• 228th Street In New York City Will Be Co-Named Ted Corbitt Way To Honor Late Black Running Pioneer He was a 1952 Olympic marathoner.
• Matt Scherer Goes On NPR To Talk About Life As A Professional Rabbit The 5-minute audio can be downloaded here.

Interesting Reads

• Good Read: Toni Reavis Introduces You To The Woman Who Never Ran In HS Or College But Was 10th At Bix – Laura Batterink Scroll down as her story comes out in the second half.

• Totally Cool: China Builds Right-Angled Track Ahead Of Visit From Communist Party Leaders

• The Meteoric Rise Of Trentavis Friday Friday, the world junior 200m gold medalist, didn’t run  track as a freshman due to poor grades. As a sophomore, with little training, he ran a 48.12. Last year he ran 10.37, 20.79, and 46.97. Now he’s run 10.00 and 20.03w.
• Interesting Q&A With Michael Johnson About The Financial Side Of The Sport And How He Went From Making “$3 An Hour To $500,000 Per Race”
• After His 3:31 PR, Henrik Ingebrigtsen Is VERY Confident Heading To Europeans “I am running so fast now that I am not particularly bothered about any of the others who will be at the championships.”
• We’ve Been Saying This For Years British Columnist Says Athletes Should Publish List Of Drugs They Are On We’ve thought this for years. If you are on thyroid medication, we want to know. Let the public decide.

Previous Commonwealth Games News

• Jamaica’s Kemar Bailey-Cole Takes 100m Title As England’s Adam Gemili Claims Silver Jamaica’s Nickel Ashmeade was 3rd.
  *Telegraph Article On Gemili’s Silver
• Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare Wins 100m Gold In Championship Record Of 10.85 Jamaica went 2-3 with Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kerron Stewart.
• Inspirational: Jamaica’s Novlene Williams-Mills Fight Continues At The Commonwealth Games Once battling cancer, the 400 runner now fights for a CG medal. She said, “For the past two years to just come back on the track to do what I love to do, so to get that medal would tell all my fellow cancer survivors to never give up hope and to keep fighting.”