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Quote Of The Day

“(I got) some really good scalps in that race. … I keep saying it’s a miracle. These are the girls I watched last year when I was out injured and looked up to them. It’s just so great to be back competing against them and actually be in the mix again.”

– UK’s Lynsey Sharp talking after her 800m win at the Birmingham Diamond League meet yesterday, where she beat some big names, including world champ Eunice Sum. After hardly racing in 2013 due to injury, she’s having a great comeback year with silver medals at the Commonwealth and European championships and now her first Diamond League victory.

Bolt's Done

Bummer:Usain Bolt Pulls Out Of Zurich DL Meet And Decides To End Season EarlyGlen Mills says that he wants him to end the season while he’s ~~unbeaten~~ healthy and injury free.

2014 Birmingham GPFull ResultsTV / Streaming *MB: Official Discussion Thread

LRC Men’s 600:David Rudisha Goes For World Record, Settles For Dominant Victory (link fixed) Rudisha and American Cas Loxsom went for it on Sunday. Neither got what they wanted but Rudisha ended up with a big victory over the Euro champ.

Men’s Steeple: LRC Jairus Birech Crawls Over Final Steeple Barrier To Win Diamond League Steeple Birech has been so dominant this year that today he could totally butcher the last barrier, crawl over it and still win by a ton. updated with video

MMile: LRC Asbel Kiprop Makes Statement With Convincing Win In Emsley Carr Mile Has Kiprop secretly been the best miler in the world this summer? How did Leo and Centro do? updated with video

w800: LRC Lynsey Sharp Earns First Diamond League Victory Of Her Career As Ajee Wilson Struggles American Brenda Martinez started to like the Brenda of 2013. With video.

MB:Official Birmingham Discussion Thread: Rudisha Goes For The WR In 600

IAAF Youth Olympic Games Sunday Recap: Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha Wins Boys’ 3,000 In 7:56Glibert Soet won Kenya’s first gold of the Games in the 1,500 with 3:41.99.
Noah Lyles Wins Youth Olympic Games 200 Title For The US In 20.80Brandee Johnson won bronze in the girls’ 200.

US Distance

Alysia Montaño Shares First Pictures Of Her Newborn Baby Girl Linnea
New Father Sean Quigley Going For Win At USA 20K Champs At New Haven Road Race Next Weekend With 2-time champ Matt Tegenkamp sitting out, Quigley has a good chance to reclaim his title from 2010.

Tokyo Governor Backs Proposals To Ban Public Smoking Ahead Of 2020 Olympics

World Champs News

Countdown Clock Switched On Outside Bird’s Nest To Mark “One Year To Go” Before 2015 Beijing World Championships
IAAF President Lamine Diack Gives Speech At “One-Year” Countdown Ceremony To 2015 Worlds
5-Year Countdown: After World Juniors Success, Vin Lananna Continues Promoting Eugene As Possible Host For 2019 World Champs Lananna: “It’s almost unthinkable, but with the unwavering support of the entire state, we can dare to dream big.”
Youth: IAAF Friday Recap Of Youth Olympic Games: US’s Myles Marshall Fastest In 800 Qualification With 1:50.22 US’s Noah Lyles was fastest 200 qualifier with 20.71.

More Distance News

Irish 800 Runner Mark English Looking Forward To Starting Back Up At Med School After The Season Ends English won bronze at Euro Champs and says, “I love having something to distract me from all the training during the winter. You can’t just be an athlete with nothing going on in your life.”
IAAF Inside Athletics: Ato Boldon Interviews David Rudisha
UK’s Andy Vernon Hoping For Big Half Marathon PR At BUPA Great North Run Half Marathon On September 7th The double Euro silver medalist has only run 1:04:43 and is hoping to run in the 61-minute range. He’ll be in the race where Mo Farah will face Olympic/World marathon champ Stephen Kiprotich.
World Class Field Set For Cape Town Marathon In SA On September 21 Field includes 5 sub-2:10 men and 3 sub-2:28 women and SA’s Irvette van Zyl.
Ethiopia’s 2:04:23 Man Ayele Abshero Will Lead Field For October Amsterdam Marathon
Study Shows That Cushioned Insoles Might Reduce Achilles Injuries

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.

More Birmingham

Rest Of Meet Recap: Mo Farah Gets European 2 Mile Record, Valerie Adams Hasn’t Lost In 4-Plus Years, Another Great High Jump, Mercy Cherono Over Dibaba Mo Farah looked good but doesn’t it mean anything? Valerie Adams hasn’t lost in 4+ years, and there was another DL high jump meet record.
*MB: Farah Runs 8:07 For 2 Miles – Destroys Watered-Down Field By 15 Seconds
Andrew Olivier Sets South African 600 Record At 1:15.03
IAAF: Mutaz Essa Barshim Wins Latest HJ Battle With Bohdan Bondarenko With 2.38m
IAAF: Child’s Play For Kaliese Spencer (400H) And Dawn Harper-Nelson (100H)
IAAF: Mo Farah Breaks European Two Mile Record
Sally Pearson Only 3rd In 100H As Dawn Harper-Nelson Wins

Distance: Aregawi In Trouble; Ritz Is Back

Abeba Aregawi Being Investigated For Tax Evasion In Sweden The article is translated, but apparently she only claimed $18,500 in income in 2012, but won $72,000 in just Diamond League prize money. *2nd Article
Dathan Ritzenhein Encouraged By Crim 10 Miler Result And Looking Forward To Philadelphia Half Marathon Next Month Ritz said he ran right about what he expected and thinks with another month of hard workouts he can be in good shape for Philly.
Paul Kangogo Gets Surprise Win At Mombasa Marathon In 2:11:22; Frida Lobeda Wins Women’s Race In 2:41:34
Lebogang Phalula Wins Durban Challenge 10K In SA

Former Giants Running Back David Wilson To Pursue Olympic Dream In Triple Jump Wilson announced his retirement from football after he was advised to avoid contact following a serious neck injury he got in a game last year and now he’s shooting for Rio. He was a high school national champ in the TJ and an All-American at Virginia Tech.

UK Stuff

UK Sprinter Richard Kilty Says He’s Happy To Be At The Level Where Now His Former Idols Like Usain Bolt Are The Competition This is probably the first time in recent history that a 10.10 sprinter like Kilty might be considered competition for Bolt.
Isobel Pooley Breaks British HJ Record With 1.96m In Germany

2014 NCAA Cross-Country – LetsRun.com’s Top 10 Countdown

LRC 2014 Men’s XC Preview: #2 Stanford & #1 Colorado As usual, Stanford is loaded on paper with the Rosa brothers, Sean McGorty and grad student Maksim Korolev, but that still may not be enough to topple defending champion Colorado, which returns its entire top seven plus its top runner from 2012, Jake Hurysz (13:38 5k PR).
Previous: *#4 Oregon & #3 Northern Arizona
*#6 Portland & #5 Oklahoma State
*#8 Wisconsin & #7 Indiana
*#10 Villanova & #9 Iona

Today’s Doping Updates

Former 400 World Champ Amantle Montsho Officially DQed From Commonwealth Games As She Waives Her Right To A Hearing After Her Failed Doping Test Her case now passes to the IAAF and she could face a 2-year ban.
Watch Out, Dopers:WADA To Resume Testing For HGH Testing was suspended more than a year ago when CAS said it was flawed, but it has now been refined and will start being used again.

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.

Stockholm Photo Gallery Updated 180+ Photos

Saturday Results: Another WR For Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt Runs 9.98 To Break 100m World Indoor Best In Poland The previous record was 10.05 held by Nambia’s Frankie Fredericks from 1996.
*Video
Dathan Ritzenhein Makes Comeback With 49:12 At Crim Festival 10-Miler For 9th Place; Julius Kogo Gets 5-Peat With 46:35 Aliphine Tuliamuk-Bolton won the women’s race in 52:48.
*Full Results *Discuss
Lawi Lalang Wins Belgium 1,500 In 3:38.93 Over Ryan Hill (3:39.53) And Evan Jager (3:39.68)Andrew Bumbalough and German Fernandez were back in 3:44.
Impressive Throws Highlight Non-Bolt Poland Action Poland’s 2013 world hammer champ Pawel Fajdek set a new NR with 83.48m, the best result in the world since 2008. Reese Hoffa won the SP in 20.81m, Robert Harting took the discus, and in the 110H Cuba’s Orlando Ortega ran a quick 13.03 to beat France’s Pascal Martinot Lagarde (13.06).
IAAF Youth Olympics Saturday Recap: Jamaica’s Jaheel Hyde Sets Youth World Best In 110H Ghana’s Martha Bissah won the girls’ 800m in 2:04.90.
*Zambia’s 16-Year-Old Sydney Siame Wins Youth Olympic 100 In 10.56 For the girls China’s Liang Xiojing won in 11.65 after pre-race favorite Ewa Nikola Swoboda (Poland) was DQed for a false start.

Other Pro News

Canada’s Nicole Sifuentes Wins Crim Michigan Mile In 4:44 In Close Finish With Heather Kampf And Sarah BrownJack Bolas won for the men in 4:06. *Women’s Results*Men’s Results
Lawi Lalang Signs With Nike
UK’s Jo Pavey Blogs About Her Career And Competing As A 40-Year-Old Mother Of Two “I put my recent success down to the fact that being a mum makes me really happy. … It seems that motherhood has made me more resilient.”
Video:Usain Bolt Does The “Ice Bucket Challenge”

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

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.