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LRC  Stephen Sambu Breaks Away To Win Falmouth Road Race By 45 Seconds; Betsy Saina Wins Close Affair Over Gemma Steel, Molly Huddle Sambu’s incredible summer continued as Ben Bruce was 4th. Huddle was third on the women’s side.
*MB: And the winners of 2014 Falmouth Road Race Are … Stephen Sambu and Betsy Saina (Molly Huddle 3rd, Ben Bruce 4th).

LRC Kyle Merber, Katie Mackey Win Titles At Falmouth Mile Merber left it late but swung wide on the final turn to beat David Torrence and get revenge on Garrett Heath, who beat him at the Michigan Track Classic last week, running 3:56.46 for the victory as Jordan McNamara was a non-factor. Mackey went wire-to-wire and ran away from Stephanie Brown and Morgan Uceny to win in 4:27.79.
*MB: Merber wins Falmouth mile! *MB: Katie Mackey wins back-to-back Falmouth Miles

RRW Saturday Recap: Lynsey Sharp Tries To Pull A Rudisha, Ends Up Second In 1:58.80 PR, Sifan Hassan Comes Up Short In Quest For 5,000/1,500 Maryna Arzamasova sat on Sharp and ran a 1:58.15 for gold.
*Meraf Bahta Wins In 15:31.39 Bahta is originally from Eritrea.
*Sharp Reflects On New, Bold Strategy: “I’m proud as two years ago I wouldn’t have raced like that.”

RRW 39-Year-Old Christelle Daunay Of France Becomes Fastest, Oldest European Marathon Champion
*Fionnuala Britton 10th In Euro Marathon With Fourth-Fastest Time BY An Irishwoman In Her Debut It’s pretty amazing that 2:31:46 is the 4th fastest time ever for an Irish woman.
*Triplets All Run In Marathon Representing Estonia It was the first time all three ran in the same marathon.

Other Saturday Action: IAAF Saturday Recap: Sandra Perkovic Wins With Best Discus Distance Throw (71.08) In 22 Years
*Mascot Stuns Crowd By Taking On Pole Vault No one will ever beat Berlino for best mascot honors.
*Eilidh Child Claims 400m Gold

Coming Sunday A Victory By Mo Farah In Sunday’s 5,000 Final Would Be Perfect Ending For Arguably Best-Ever European Champs For British
*Mo Farah: “I’m not invincible.”
*Mo Farah’s 1st DL Of Year Will Be Next Sunday In 2-Mile In Birmingham
Robert Heffernan Was Crushed By World Record Pace In 50k Walk, Ended Up A DNF At 37k

LRC Profile The Long Road: Jordan McNamara’s Injury-Filled Path To Success A big fan of the sport since HS when he had pictures of Webb, Lagat and Goucher on his wall, Jordan McNamara is so determined to rise to the top that 14 stress fractures haven’t been able to stop him from becoming one of America’s best milers. Plus insight on OTC members Ben Blankenship, Pat Casey, Hassan Mead, Ciaran O’Lionaird and Andrew Wheating.

Good Read For Everyone Over The Age Of 35: Jo Pavey Proves You Don’t Have To Be Child Prodigy To Be Great Research has shown you can be a greater writer or athlete even at an advanced age.

New Super-Expensive Yohan Blake Watch Debuts LRC has been unable to confirm rumor that the watch is designed to break down every 6 months.

Distance News Of Note

• Chris Solinsky Q&A About Accepting Job As College Coach At William And Mary – Admits He Was Willing To Give Up His Competitive Career
• Recommended Read A Look At Jo Pavey: Britain’s Long-Distance Superwoman Pavey has matched Liz McColgan by winning gold 11 months after giving birth – all at age 40. Amazing for a woman who because of past injuries can’t even straighten one leg fully.
• Japanese Officials Examine Rio Olympics Marathon Course – “It’s a great course.” The key part in their minds is a hilly section just after the turnaround point.
• Canadian Rob Watson Hoping To Beat PR Of 2:13:29 In Toronto In Oct.
• With One Month To Go, A Look At The IAAF Continental Cup, A Crucial Part Of Athletics’ Growth This is a race everyone tries to make as it pays BIG $$$.

83-Pound, 99-Year-Old Ida Keeling Sets Age Group Record For 100m At 59.80 Seconds Includes video.

LRC Mo Can Still Kick: Wins 10,000m Gold At Europeans The last kilometer was slower than usual, but in the end, it was vintage Mo Farah with a 54.4 final lap. Recap, analysis and video of final lap. *Discuss Mo’s Win Here
*RRW: Farah Dominant In European Champs
*Telegraph: Farah Back To Brilliant Best

• More: IAAF Full Day 2 Recap: The Netherlands Dafne Schippers Wins 100 Gold With 11.12 Into A Strong Headwind Belarus’ Andrei Krauchanka set a decathlon world lead with 8,616 points, Robert Harting won the discus, France’s Eloyse Lesueur the LJ (Darya Klishina was 3rd).
• GB’s James Dasaolu Wins 100 Final At Euro Champs In 10.06, Beating France’s Christophe Lemaitre (10.13) GB went 3-4 as well with Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Dwain Chambers.
• Former “Plastic Brit” Tiffany Porter Wins 100 Hurdles Gold For UK
• Ireland: Mark English Makes 800 Final But 400 Runner Thomas Barr Disappointingly Does Not France’s Pierre-Ambroise Bosse had the fastest time in the 800 semis with 1:45.94.

2014 African Champs *Schedule (PDF) *Results *Post-Race Interviews By AthleticsAfrica *Meet Website

• Ayanleh Souleiman Over Asbel Kiprop For African 1,500! They went out in 2:07.83 and closed super, super fast with Souleiman winning in 3:42.49, just .09 ahead of Kiprop with Ronald Kwemoi 3rd .01 further back. The top 4 were only separated by .16 seconds. Kiprop was next-to-last with 500 remaining. *Race Video
• IAAF Final Day Recap: Caleb Ndiku Leads Kenya To 3 Out Of The Top 4 In The Men’s 5,000 With 13:24 Over Isiah Koech Eunice Sum led a 1-3 Kenyan domination of the 800, winning in 1:59.45 over Janeth Jepkosgei. Ethiopia went 1-2 in the steeple as Hiwot Ayalew set a championships record of 9:29.54 ahead of Sofia Assefa. Kenya’s Julius Yego defended his javelin title and Murielle Ahoure won the 200 in 22.36.