August 22, 2014 Homepage Archive

2014 DN GalanFull ResultsLRC Stockholm Photo Gallery Updated 180+

W1,500: LRCJenny Simpson Pulls Away Over Final 50 Meters For Her Second Career Diamond League VictoryIndoor WR holder Genzebe Dibaba took this one out very quickly but was caught on the final lap.
*MB: Wow: What a 1500!!!! Jenny Simpson wins it in Stockholm!!!

M5,000: LRCGalen Rupp Goes For It, Fades To 13:05 As Muktar Edris Arrives With World-Leading 12:54.83 In addition to Edris’ win, Ndiku broke 13:00 for the first time but most of the men in this one were reminded that a 5k is 5,000 meters, not 2,500.
MB:RUPP GOES FOR IT – Comes up short over last 500 – 13:05.

Rest Of The Meet:LRCFull Stockholm Recap: Adam Kszczot Grabs Big Win In 800; Hiwot Ayalew Keeps On Winning In Women’s Steeple Kszczot followed up his victory at Europeans by taking down Nijel Amos in the 800 in a negative-split 1:45 while Emma Coburn was just third in the steeple in 9:20. Allyson Felix and Queen Harrison got wins in the sprints while Nesta Carter won the 100 in 9.96. In the field events, Reese Hoffa won to extend his lead in the DL standings while France’s Renaud Lavillenie‘s 20-meet win streak is history after he failed to clear a height on a poor night for jumping. Plus a B-heat victory for Leo Manzano.
*M800: MB: Adam Kszczot crushes Nijel Amos in 800 -Is this white guy the world’s best?
*MB: Official 2014 Stockholm DL Discussion Thread

*LRC Stockholm Photo Gallery

Outside Coverage:

IAAF Recap Part I: Simpson Wins
IAAF Recap Part III: Lavillenie Winning Streak Comes To An End In Stockholm
IAAF Recap Part II: Bartoletta, Hoffa And Perkovic Win Early Thrillers
Stockholm Starter Criticized For Holding Athletes Too Long In Set-Position An unusually high number of races had to be restarted with Sally Pearson being DQd for a false start in the 100H.

Youth Olympic Games

IAAF Thursday Recap Of Youth Olympic Games: Kenya’s Rosefline Chepngetich Sets World Youth Lead In 2,000m Steeple She was 2nd at World Junior Champs in Eugene.
IAAF Day 1 Recap: Jamaica’s Jaheel Hyde Threatens World Youth Best In 110H
Liu Xiang Leads Way At IAAF Kids Athletics Event In Nanjing

More News Of Note

The Good: Police: Jogger Saves Kids After Stroller With Two Kids Strapped In Falls Into Reservoir In Brookline, MA
The Bad:Mo Farah’s Younger Brother Likely Didn’t See His Brother Win The 5,000 As He Was In Jail For Burglary
Falmouth Race Director Tommy Leonard Celebrated His 81st Birthday Last Week
Bizarre:Want To Run 6 Days In A Row? On An Indoor Track? Welcome To Six Days In The Dome, An Extreme Running Adventure

2 Recommended Reads

RR#1: Phil Hersh Profiles Kenenisa Bekele’s Preparation For 2014 Chicago – Bekele Says He Has No Regrets About His Track Career Bekele says he’ll do more long runs in preparation for Chicago as the marathon in Paris was harder than he thought it would be.

RR#2: German Long Jump Champ Gets Huge Feature In NY Times – And For Good Reason – He’s Got 1 LegMarkus Rehm won the German nationals with a massive 8.24 (27+ feet), which would have won him silver at Euros (which the Germans wouldn’t let him compete in). We don’t get the controversy – the IAAF should 100% ban all athletes with prosthetic legs.

Trail/Mountain Running

Pikes Peak:Former CU Buff Allie McLaughlin Wins Women’s Race, Leads Team USA To World Championship
Former Cornell Runner Sage Canaday Takes Title At Pikes Peak Ascent Canaday led Team USA to a dominant victory.
Leadville:In 1st attempt, Rob Krar Wins Leadville Trail 100 Ultra-Marathon Race With 2nd-Fastest Time Ever “Without a doubt that was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
Emma Roca (Spain) Wins Women’s Race

2014 LetsRun.com Top 10 NCAA XC Countdown

LRC 2014 Men’s XC Preview: #4 Oregon & #3 Northern Arizona Oregon has the best runner in the NCAA in sophomore Edward Cheserek, who should be joined by 13:18 man Eric Jenkins to form a formidable 1-2 punch. NAU was 2k away from a national title last year and will try to move up a spot from second with Futsum Zienasellassie and Louisville transfer Tyler Byrne.
Previous: #6 Portland & #5 Oklahoma State
*#8 Wisconsin & #7 Indiana
*#10 Villanova & #9 Iona

Bolt And Ritz Highlight Saturday Action

Dathan Ritzenhein Makes Return To Racing Tomorrow At Crim Festival 10 Miler In Michnigan Ritz hasn’t raced at all in 2013 after he got a sports hernia in the fall. He said he’s not at 100%, but has been working out hard for a month and wants to see where he’s at.
Another WR For Bolt? Bolt Could Break World Indoor 100m Record When He Races At The National Stadium In Poland Which Has A Retractable Roof The unofficial record for 100m indoors is 10.05 set by Namibia’s Frankie Fredericks in 1996.
Sunday: Provisional Entry Lists For August 24th Brimingham DL Meet

Sprint Stuff: Gatlin Calls Himself “Batman”

Justin Gatlin Still Feeling Backlash From Doping Past As Three Of The Final 4 Diamond League Meets Wouldn’t Invite Him Zurich meet director Patrick Magyar said, “There’s no personal animosity. The decision of the general assembly stands as this: We don’t want to give our money to athletes that have brought the sport disrepute.” Gatlin on the other hand said, “I look at myself as the ‘Batman’ of track – a vigilante. You may not like me, but I’m needed.”
Happy Birthday, Usain Bolt!10 Career Stats To Know About The World’s Fastest Man Bolt turned 28 on Thursday.
Oregon’s NCAA/USA 110H Champ Devon Allen Heading Into Football Season With High Expectations Football season is starting, but he’s still talking about doing big things in track as he wants to become the first collegian to break 13 seconds.
GB’s Young Sprinter Jodie Williams Talks About Coming Back From Injury Disappointments To Get Double Silver At Commonwealth Games And Euro Champs She’ll finish her season this weekend at the Birmingham DL meet before she goes on to enjoy 2 weeks of binge eating.

Doping

Study Looks At How EPO Works In this study, they found that just taking EPO alone (no training) increased VO2max by 15%. Those that trained and took EPO increased by 27%.
A Look At 2013 Drug Testing Stats By WADA For All Sports In Chart Form According to this, overall tests for track are down from 2012.

Week That Was

Click for a Mehiedine Mekhissi Benabbad Day 3 Photo Gallery

LRC Excessive Celebration, Where Are The Fans, Double Domination, Fast Moms, Slow Japanese And Running Backwards: The Week That WasWho had the performance of the week: Mo Farah,the shirtless Mahiedine Mekhissi Benabbad, Nijel Amos or Almaz Ayana? We span the globe to tell you and find video of Amos’ 800m victory over Mo Aman where they went out in 56. Plus Cooly, the twerking mascot.

Doping News: Turkey Paying For Last Year’s Drug Busts

Positive News:Cleaned-Up Turkish Team Fails To Score At Euro Champs After the slew of bans last year they are missing a lot of their “top” athletes and also had many others quit competing for “personal reasons.” The team is worse, but apparently cleaner.
IAAF Anti-Doping Official Abby Hoffman Says That New Innovations In Retroactive Testing Technology Should Deter Athletes From Cheating Unfortunately, you can dope now, gain fame and money and even if your frozen sample tests positive in 10 years, in most cases you still keep all that money.
6 Years Later, Canada’s Dylan Armstrong Will Receive His SP Bronze Medal From 2008 Olympics Comes in wake of lifetime ban of Belarus’ Andrei Mikhnevich.

Sprint/Jump News

Next Week’s Big Meets

1st DL Final In Zurich Next Thursday Will Feature An Insane Men’s 800David Rudisha, Mohammed Aman, Nijel Amos and Asbel Kiprop.
Dasaolu Vs. Gemili Vs. Bolt In Weltklasse Zurich 100m
All Of Germany’s European Medalists Will Compete At IAAF World Challenge Meeting In Berlin On 31 August

More News Of Note:

2014 NYC Marathon

New York City Marathon Champions Geoffrey Mutai And Priscah Jeptoo Return To Defend Titles In November Mutai will be going for NYC title #3 – no one has won 3 since Alberto Salazar in 1982.

Other Random News

50 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Adidas The Three Stripes on adidas shoes were originally put there for stability, not style.
Polls Show Seb Coe Is A Popular Choice For London Mayor Although it sounds like he’s ruled himself out of the mayoral race.
Ashton Eaton Beats Steve Prefontaine In Final Vote For “Oregon’s Greatest Athlete Ever”
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Stockholm Photo Gallery Updated 180+ Photos

It’s Time To Get Excited For Some Fall Marathons

NYC: RRWA Rejuvenated Kara Goucher Is Ready To Race Again: “The passion is definitely back and I am excited for it to start.”An honest Goucher admits that at the end in Portland she was going through the motions, “running it out” as the “passion was kind of gone.” Remotivated, she’s going to race the Rock ‘n’ Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon in September and then New York (not announced but what else could it be?).