– Azerbaijan’s Hayle Ibrahimov (formerly of Ethiopia), talking about losing to Mo Farah in the European Championships 5,000m on Sunday. Ibrahimov’s “feeling” is right as in their career (according to tilastopaja.org) he’s had 6 losses to Farah and no wins. Here Ibrahimov finished runner-up by 2.5 seconds as he couldn’t stick with Farah’s 52.3-second final lap.
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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
*Triplets All Run In Marathon Representing Estonia It was the first time all three ran in the same marathon.
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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.
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.
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
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
RRW: Redemption For Mekhissi-Benabbad In 1,500, Second Gold For Farah Antje Moeldner-Schmidt won the women’s steeple.
*MB Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad Keeps Shirt On, Wins 1,500 He did showboat as he crushed everyone but the clothes stayed on. Henrik Ingebrigsten got silver and former Tulsa runner Chris O’Hare bronze.
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MB: Farah completes the double – Wins 2014 European 5,000 with 2:22:85 last 1000m
Steeplechase: Four Years After Beating Cancer, Germany’s Antje Moldner-Schmidt Earns Another Emotional Victory
Bach Urges Everyone To Take A “Selfie” Whatever money is spent on this should instead be spent on prize money for the actual Olympics.
LRC Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad Does It Again – Wins Steeple, Loses Singlet And Respect And Is DQed The man who threw punches in Monaco in 2011 and shoved a 14-year-old girl mascot in 2012 may have topped himself today in terms of bizarre behavior.
*MB: Mekhissi-Benabbad is an idiot
Mekhissi-Benabbad Aftermath
IAAF Day 4 Recap: Kenya’s Joyce Chepkirui Wins 10,000 Over Emily Chebet By .01 Eunice Sum comfortably won her 800 heat in 2:02.43 as Asbel Kiprop won his heat over Ronald Kwemoiand Ayanleh Souleiman as all 3 advanced.M800
: LRC Poland’s Adam Kszczot Destroys Men’s 800 Field Over Final 150m To Take Gold, World #2 Pierre-Ambroise Bosse Stunningly Finishes Last There is a reason why they run the race. Two youngsters, a 20-year-old Pole and 21-year-old Irishman, got silver and bronze.
*MB: Bosse goes home DEVASTATED! 2014 world #2 (1:42.53) finishest last in European 800 final
*English Happy With Bronze For Ireland: “It’s nice not to be known as a time triallist anymore, that I can actually medal!”
W1,500: LRC Sifan Hassan Outkicks Abeba Aregawi To Win 1,500 Next up for Hassan and Aregawi. A race with Jenny Simpson. Will the AR fall?
*MB: Sifan Hissan takes down Abeba Aregawi for 2014 European 1500 title, Laura Weigthman gets bronze.
*Steve Cram Told Laura Weightman To Chill Until 600m Remained
M1,500/WSteeple Prelims: RRW Henrik Ingebrigtsen And Chris O’Hare Win Two 1,500 Heats At Europeans To Advance To Final Women’s steeple heats also are done – 10:00 got you into the final.
*Chris O’Hare: “I’ve got a healthy shot of the silver or bronze medal.”
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