August 27, 2014 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“The victorious team, which comprised a German shot putter, an Australian sprinter, a 1,500m runner from Comoros, a 400m hurdler from Thailand, a 400m sprinter from Venezuela, a Russian triple jumper, an 800m runner from the British Virgin Islands and a Romanian 200m sprinter, provided the perfect combination of talents to triumph in the fledgling event.”

“The eight athletes completed the total 800m distance in a time of 1:40.20 – interestingly 0.71 faster than David Rudisha’s world record for the distance.”

– Excerpt from IAAF piece by Steve Landells describing the makeup of the winning team in the 8 x 100m relay which ended the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. The randomly assigned teams in the event were comprised of 8 athletes (4 boys, 4 girls) from all event disciplines and different nations. Overall, 66 teams (so 528 athletes) competed.

2014 Weltklasse Zürich Weltklasse Schedule / Results (Thursday 2pm ET) TV / Streaming

LRC Big Drama In Zurich: A Winner Take All 800 And 1,500, Emma And Jenny Go For DL Titles The first of the two DL finals should be spectacular as the winner of the men’s 800 and women’s 1,500 likely will take home $50,000 and a spot into 2015 Worlds, whereas second will get just a $6,000 consolation prize. Plus New Balance teammates Emma Coburn and Jenny Simpson try to bring home DL titles to the USA. *IAAF full meet preview
*Press conference highlights The presser featured European sprinters Dafne Schippers, James Dasaolu and Adam Gemili as well as discus thrower Sandra Perkovic,
*Update On Overall Diamond League Standings LaShawn Merritt (400) and Sandra Perkovic (discus) just need to start in Zurich to win the overall title, but in other events it’s a battle. The men’s TJ will come down to Will Claye and Christian Taylor while the 400H is between Michael Tinsley and Javier Culson.

Pro Distance News

Good Q&A With Dathan Ritzenhein Following His 49:12 Comeback Performances At The Crim Festival 10 Miler Ritz talks about his comeback from injury, how he’s enjoyed his time back in Michigan and his future racing plans, which will include the RnR Philly Half next month and a fall marathon (he doesn’t specify which, but pretty much has to be NYC).
Geoffrey Ronoh Dominates Half Marathon In Germany, Wins In 59:45 (Translated From German) Ronoh is the guy who in June was supposed to rabbit a race with Wilson Kipsang but kept going and won it.

Sprints And Throws

IAAF Profile On Kalise Spencer, Who Got Her 10th Straight Victory In The Birmingham 400H And Is Now Essentially Guaranteed To Win The Overall DL Title Interesting fact: In 2012, she was chosen as Jamaica’s sexiest female athlete by readers of the Jamaica Star.
Short Q&A With Usain Bolt Talking About His 100 And 200 World Records It may have been 5-years since he broke a WR, but he says he routinely breaks PlayStation controllers when he plays Call of Duty.
IAAF Work Rest And Play Interview With Japan’s Former Olympic And World Hammer Champion Koji Murofushi Koji is still competing at 39 years old and this year won a record 20th Japanese title.

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

Youth Games

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.

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

LRC 2014 Women’s XC Preview: #8 Stanford, #7 Oregon Last year was an aberration as neither Stanford nor Oregon cracked the top 10 at NCAAs. That won’t be the case this year as both teams are much better. The nation’s #1 recruit, 4:10 1500 woman Elise Cranny, is headed to Stanford and the #2, 2-time NXN champ Sarah Baxter, to Oregon. Plus Oregon has everyone back plus some transfers. We take a look at the increasing importance of the transfer market to building an xc power.
*Previous:#10 Iowa State & #9 Colorado

Coaches’ Poll: Preseason Poll: Colorado Men Receive Unanimous #1 Vote
*Michigan Takes the Top Spot In Women’s Preseason Poll; Oregon Is Ranked 2nd

Pro Distance Updates

Mo Farah Talks About His Up-And-Down Season And Plans For The Future Asked if he plans on trying to challenge Kenenisa Bekele‘s 5K/10K WRs at some point Farah says, “Yeah, definitely. It is a big goal of mine at some point next year or after that. I haven’t run a personal best in the 5K for three years.”
*MB:Photographer Gets Loogie in Face from Mo Farah in Middle of 2 Mile
Interview With Alexa Efraimson And Her Coach On Her Training And Other Random Stuff From before the announcement on going pro.
Molly Huddle Hoping Her String Of Good Races Continues At New Haven 20K On Monday She’d like to be US champ, but she’ll face training partner Amy Hastings, among others.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Caster Semenya Her father wanted a boy (ummm …) and her favorite event is the 1,500 (not the 800).
Q&A With Kyle Merber, Who Plans On Ending Season At NYRR 5th Ave. Mile
Lauren Fleshman Blog Post: “Running Buddies Are The Best Motivators”
Coolest Honeymoon Ever? Newlyweds David And Megan Roche Win USATF 10K Trail Championships The race is part of their honeymoon. Next stop is Italy as they’re both repping USA in the World Mountain Running Championships.

Pretty Cool: Youth Olympic Games Ends With 8 X 100m Relay With Mixed Athletes From All Event Groups And Countries The winning team ran 1:40.20 (about 12.53 a runner), which is 800m just .71 faster than David Rudisha‘s WR.
*Final List Of US Medals/Results

Ferguson, MO Locals Say Running Bridges The Gap Between The Races City councilman Dwayne James talks about the local Twilight 5K, which he says “has done a great job in bringing in a diverse crowd of participants, be it in race, age, or running ability.”

Doping Updates

More Of The Same:One Of Russia’s Top Racewalking Officials Suspended In Connection With Major Doping Investigation Viktor Kolesnikov is a director of Russia’s racewalking center, which has had 17 of it’s athletes banned for doping.
The Couple That Plays Together, Dopes Together:Meet The Mikhnevichs, Belarus’ Shot Put Power Couple Andrei Mikhnevich is serving a lifetime doping ban while Natallia Mikhnevich is out for 2 years.
Only About 4 More Months Until Stricter WADA Code Comes Into Effect Longer bans for first time offenses and the ability to go after athletes’ “entourage” are just some of the improvements to the current doping code.
Australian Olympic Committee President Threatens Aussie Athletes That They Will Be Banned From Rio 2016 If They Associate With Anyone With Doping Violations Meanwhile, in the US we’re making former dopers our national team head coaches.

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.

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.

Week That Was

LRC Usain Bolt And Mo Farah Call It A Season, The Origins Of The Hand Clap, An NFL Star Moves To The Triple Jump, Meet Myles Marshall: The US 800 Star Whose Parents Ran 1:43.92 And 2:00.81It was a big week on the track with Jenny Simpson winning the 1,500 in Stockholm, so we talk about everything else that happened outside of Stockholm and Birmingham.

Marathon Stuff

Biopic Planned On World’s Youngest Marathoner, Budhia Singh Of India He reportedly ran 48-marathons by the age of 5.
Santa Rosa Marathon Goes On After 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Race winner Jon Olsen (2:32:37) said, “It went on for 20 or 30 seconds. It was like the building was swirling, not moving back and forth. We were in shock.”

Efraimson Goes Pro

Alexa Efraimson Goes Pro With Nike The US HS star will stay with her coach Mike Hickey and still go to college.
*DyeStat Video Interview

Youth Olympic Games Are In The Books *Results

IAAF Youth Olympic Games Final Day Recap: China’s Home Favorite Xu Zhihang Wins 400H In Photo Finish In distance action, Ethiopia’s Kokebe Tesfaye won 1,500 gold in 4:15.38, Kenya’s Rosefline Chepngetich won the girls’ 2,000m steeple as Ethiopia’s Wogene Sebsibe won the men’s race.
Myles Marshall Uses His Parents’ Plan To Win 800 Gold In 1:49.14 Marshall comes from good genes as both his parents are former elite mid-d runners and helped him form his race strategy to win gold. We talk more about Marshall in this week’s Week That Was.
*Day-By-Day Breakdown Of US Performances
IAAF Profile: Jaheel Hyde: “Look out, greatness is coming.” That’s the message Hyde posted on instagram before the 2014 season; a season that saw him win World Juniors in the 400H and the Youth Olympics in the 110H with a world youth best.

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

LRC Men’s 600:David Rudisha Goes For World Record, Settles For Dominant Victory 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